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ctippett
31 days ago
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Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
Collocating a bunch of lithium-ion heat pillows all in one place, what could go wrong!
prmoustache
31 days ago
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Most laptops work perfectly fine with the battery removed and for those who cannot replacing it with a large capacitor is usually a solution.
subarctic
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Using a capacitor sounds interesting but also pretty tricky, have you done that yourself?
prmoustache
31 days ago
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I didn't as I never had a laptop with this issue but I have seen it done on a smartphone.
traderj0e
30 days ago
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I thought a lot of laptops don't work without the battery, especially the increasingly common unibody types.
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