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Laptops have soul (infosec.pub)
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Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal.
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness.
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any.

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[โ€“] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe someone will know here. Is there a best-choice for replacing an old laptop battery when the official stuff is not around anymore? Like a third party option that isn't a company there today and gone tomorrow, who's company name is a string of random characters?

I was telling someone my laptop was old yesterday and they commented, "yeah, I know. it has a disk drive." x_x

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't know if it'll help but so many batteries are made out of sticking 18650 batteries together. Laptop batteries, ebike batteries, car batteries... A good chance is that's what's in an older laptops battery, and if you can get it out and open the plastic, you might be able to swap those old ones out for new ones. This would only work if the charge is not holding ofc.

18650 cells look like A batteries but bigger (18mm in diameter and 65mm in length, I wonder where that name come from ๐Ÿ˜).