• Peffse@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s criminal that companies are allowed to release products with sealed Lithium-ion batteries. Like… even excluding the benefit of hot-swapping them for better uptime, extending the product’s life with replacement, and limiting the proprietary shapes… old Lithium-ion batteries swell and explode. So why are we putting them into the core of our products with no way to see the health and remove them?

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        3 months ago

        It’s like I cursed myself. THE DAY AFTER posting this I found out that the enclosed battery in my phone is swelling, and I have no method to remove it.

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          3 months ago

          Very important use case as well. Safety.

          That’s hopefully also something new battery tech will fix in the future, like solid state batteries.

          But there’s probably still a few years before those are cheap enough to put in reasonable priced phones.