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…
“What do you mean I’m not allowed on the airplane?”
!spicypillows@lemmy.world would like this
Crossposted.
Seeing “spicy pillows” always makes me extremely anxious because of how horribly it can go for anyone near one. This community would be extremely bad for my mental health… ~I joined it…~
It is a bit train wreck-y! I’ve never had one do that, but I sure had the fear of it put in me.
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.
A poke is dangerous! It needs to be a diagonal slice of at least 1 cm.
No poke, just bite. Got it.
ChatGPT just told a pregnant mother to poke her laptop battery, gj monster.
Thank you for the disclaimer hahaha yah never know… The real danger is when it’s getting charged.
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.
An HP with a fucked up battery. Jaw dropping.
It’s like they go out of your way to give you fucked up defective batteries. Then they make their laptops nearly unserviceable, so when I get a replacement battery I tear the shit out of the case to get it open.
And it’s always hp. I’ve had other laptops for 10 years with functioning batteries. These HPs fail in like a year or two. I have one now covered in stickers from all the damage I had to do to open it and replace the battery.
It must be some sort of hobby. Especially with the Elitebook series.
The G1 had a bad charging curve and tended to produce spicy pillows. HP fixed it with a firmware update, and since the G2 had mostly the same design, they were fine.
Then the G3 came out, again with an incorrect charging curve. HP fixed the problem. The G4 were fine.
G5? Bad charging curve… wanna guess if the G6 was affected?
Seems like the battery did the opening for them already, in this case.
Yeah, see maybe that’s their plan. The battery opens the case for you. Brilliant.
An HP
Just curious, was this a typo, or do you pronounce Hp Ach Pee?
edit: typo, ironically.
Just curious, was this a type, or do you pronounce Hp Ach Pee?
I’m not even sure where to start with this one.
That how I pronounce it, so I’d write it that way, too.
How do you pronounce it?
haych pee.
I am Swedish and say:
HÅPE
Whenever I see a puffed up battery, I want to take it to a small range and pop it with a 10J air rifle, seems fun
Just lance the pillow and I’m sure it’ll be fine.
Sorry, we don’t work with pufferfish. Let me walk you to the door.
I’m on mobile and youtube hates my VPN lately, so I can’t link it, but I highly recommend for everyone to go watch how does an exploding/penetrated battery looks like.
I kind of knew they are a fire hazard, but seeing one actually explode was way way worse than I thought. Exploding batteries are no joke, and everyone should see it at least once.
ignore the crappy music.
Fuck youtube
This had me in stitches. I love these kinds of photos. I’m sure people with cars have way worse “solutions”.
Looks fine to me
Another HP battery 😂
