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Dave Wilburn :donor:
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I hate all of this so much. -
@nazokiyoubinbou @Viss Exactly -
@nazokiyoubinbou @Viss Exactly@Viss FWIW I believe mine booted with the battery detached but I can't remember for sure. I believe it's a bit more complicated with smartphone battery controllers.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @Viss Exactly@Viss the tendency in modern electronics design to bury dangerous lithium ion batteries under uninspectable opaque cases in a way that makes user servicability impractical is just awful. I'd happily trade a few millimeters of thickness for an easy mechanism to swap out batteries like we used to have 20 years ago.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @Viss Exactly@Viss FWIW, I recently had a similar problem with my circa 2019 Razer Blade Stealth 13 laptop and just ordered a 3rd party battery from Amazon and replaced it myself. I found out about the puffy battery almost by chance after I opened the case to upgrade the SSD.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @Viss Exactly@Viss oh yeah, essentially zero! Yeah, if you can get in, then you're basically golden. Well, until/unless the container gets trashed and redeployed.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @Viss Exactly@Viss Alpine would be tricky. There isn't much of an attack surface other than the Linux kernel, musl, and busybox, aside from what you decide to shove into it.
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PSA, the new Android 16 update will surreptitiously reenable fingerprint device unlock even if you had intentionally disabled it before.PSA, the new Android 16 update will surreptitiously reenable fingerprint device unlock even if you had intentionally disabled it before. Depending on where you live and your threat model, this might not be safe! Americans have little protection against law enforcement compelling biometrics unlock. To make matters worse, the fingerprint unlock settings are found in a different part of the security settings UI than the rest of the device unlock settings. If you update to Android 16, make sure your device unlock settings are what you intended.