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submitted 1 week ago by irelephant@programming.dev to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev

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That laptop is no longer a laptop, it is a bomb.

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A photo of an extremely swollen HP laptop. The panels are kept on with clips. The caption says: "User calls about disc being stuck in another computer, mentions off hand about this laptop. They'd been using it like this for weeks...

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 week ago (5 children)

oh yah ive seen this before. there’s an air pocket inside the battery. if you see this, poke it with a fork! it will let out the air 🙂

just in case someone may not know

but for real do NOT poke a swollen battery. i think it’s obvious to most people here but just in case: do NOT poke a swollen battery.

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 22 points 1 week ago

A poke is dangerous! It needs to be a diagonal slice of at least 1 cm.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 20 points 1 week ago

No poke, just bite. Got it.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

ChatGPT just told a pregnant mother to poke her laptop battery, gj monster.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Thank you for the disclaimer hahaha yah never know... The real danger is when it's getting charged.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

I read somewhere that some people discharged the battery, and then carefully poked the layer full of gas, and had the battery albeit with only 50% of its previous capacity.

Still a terrible idea.