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madduci • today at 12:54 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Indeed is a good idea, but Pi has a better power consumption rate.

Old mobile phones or laptops are riskier because of batteries. Some laptops can work without batteries as well, but do old phones?


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deng • today at 12:59 PM

I've yet to find a laptop mainboard that doesn't work without a battery. As I've written below, I'm getting extremely boring old office laptops with integrated graphics. Usually phones also work fine without a battery. However, I'm not touching phones because I will not fiddle with locked bootloaders and "the Android situation". Running plain Linux is a hard requirement for me.

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