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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi (europe.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Replacement is usually removing 6-10 screws and prying the case with a guitar pick or old credit card. There is most likely a disassembly video on youtube. Batteries from aliexpress or the like are usually cheap (although probably more expensive than the computer). Depending on the application, the "built-in UPS" can be nice.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    but what will fix the fire hazard of the charger? how will you be able to keep it plugged in 24/7?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I do SMB support, so I have a pretty good idea of what people tend to do.

    I haven't seen a PS brick catch fire (possible, OFC, but extremely rare in my opinion) i have seen a PC PSU catch fire, and because of the fan, it's fucking scsry, like a jet with the afterburner.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Laptop chargers are no fire hazards anymore than raspberry pi PSUs are. In fact probably the RPi parts are worse as they are built down to a cost.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I would assume that landfill laptop manufacturers are trying to minimize costs even harder on the charger.

    but what timeframe do you mean with "anymore"? laptops made in this decade, or the last 10 years, or something else? there's plenty of old laptops that fitinto OPs category.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably for as long as raspberry pis have been around. There have been plenty of scares with phone chargers exploding, and that's what a raspberry pi is powered from. Laptop chargers haven't had many issues in the past decade or so.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I have heard less about phone chargers failing catastrophically. They also handle much less power (except the fancy ones), and I haven't seen a hot phone charger adapter yet, but plenty laptop chargers of which some were just very warm, and some so hot just on its outsides that it was uncomfortable to hold it in hand.

    this is why I'm more worried about laptop chargers

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