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		saurik on Aug 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I turned an old phone into a NAS FWIW, Samsung batteries explode even if you don't use them as servers, and in fact it was an issue with their batteries being trash (I think I remember it being that they had been contaminated with metal filings, but I might be entirely misremembering the verdict). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfM0GqsIB6c

pino82 on Aug 8, 2024 [–]

I wanted to learn some details about that story (I heard about it back then, but never digged deeper).

Your link seems to lead to some kind of shady video clip portal.

Was that intended? If so, is there a textual version as well? Video clips seem to be a poor medium for most kind of actual information transfer.

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