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@ddephor This. It's very likely the connector / "charging port" that's damaged. You could likely fix it via soldering, but you can damage things very easily if you don't know what you're doing.
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@Root Sometimes it's not that easy. I have my old Thinkpad still lying around that had exactly that issue. But it was nearly impossible to get to the connector soldering points with reasonable effort. I started to disassemble the whole device, including unmounting display and several PCBs, and still there was something in the way.
So at the end I bought a new Thinkpad, as this one was already old enough anyway.
My dell's battery is dying and refuses to charge unless I fuck with the damn wire (charger works perfectly on my brother's dell). I know how to and have replaced dell batteries for similar models before on multiple occasions when I was a tech assistant in high school only 3 years ago but my dell warrenty won't mail me a battery for me to replace myself. Instead requiring I send them my laptop (can't since it my laptop I use for college work and can't go without it for a week or two unless I want to fail out). So guess I have to fucking find a battery on Amazon and spend money doing what my warrenty should cover
I understand why they don't allow users to do their own repairs. I'm just annoyed at having to find the battery online and spend money
rant