> Undoubtedly at least one of the readers of this story will raise alarms at the prospect of keeping a lithium battery on full charge all of the time. It's a fire hazard! It can explode!
> I have a fair bit of experience with charging batteries of many types, and with confidence I can say that these concerns are largely overblown. Any appropriately designed battery charging system will stop charging the battery once it's fully charged.
Tell that to the multitude of laptops I've owned and/or repaired because the battery swells up and pushes the keyboard and trackpad out of the chassis.
Yeah, it's not a matter of stopping charging, that is a necessary but not sufficient condition to stop the battery from exploding. It's generally keeping the battery fully charged and hot inside a device that's always plugged in and always on that does them in like this over time.
This is a advertisement for a service called qik
"Next step is to pick a Qik Node to run your web services, and host your apps. There are official Qik Nodes "
several pages on the site direct you to this service which seems to be a web server smashed together with some buzzwords and crypto services.
I’ve been dreaming of this (generally speaking) for years. Just occurred to me I could easily do it myself now too with modern tools…
If only we had truly unlimited data plans to go with it
> Undoubtedly at least one of the readers of this story will raise alarms at the prospect of keeping a lithium battery on full charge all of the time. It's a fire hazard! It can explode!
> I have a fair bit of experience with charging batteries of many types, and with confidence I can say that these concerns are largely overblown. Any appropriately designed battery charging system will stop charging the battery once it's fully charged.
Tell that to the multitude of laptops I've owned and/or repaired because the battery swells up and pushes the keyboard and trackpad out of the chassis.
Yeah, it's not a matter of stopping charging, that is a necessary but not sufficient condition to stop the battery from exploding. It's generally keeping the battery fully charged and hot inside a device that's always plugged in and always on that does them in like this over time.
This is a advertisement for a service called qik "Next step is to pick a Qik Node to run your web services, and host your apps. There are official Qik Nodes "
several pages on the site direct you to this service which seems to be a web server smashed together with some buzzwords and crypto services.
"then later dropped in a toilet before sitting for over a year in a bag of rice"
Oh my god please tell me someone remembered to throw the toilet-water-rice out and not accidentally use it for cooking X-(