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  • You can use a battery powered device without the battery plugged in. I’ve never built capacitor bank for a more modern mobile device but its probably possible with off the shelf boards. The last one I built was years ago for a dentist office. It was a mp3 player they used for the hold music. Pulled the bad battery and built a fairly small capacitor bank. The only complication was getting the right resister for the third terminal. In the case of the mp3 player it was a temperature sensor. Modern phones use this channel to communicate battery info which might complicate things a bit.




  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIt's about that time
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    3 days ago

    I had a computer shop in the early 2000’s. A guy comes in and asks about some computers a closed doctors office. He asks what they are worth and I told him I had no idea. I agree to meet him at the address and when we walk in its pure 80’s in there. The newest computer was a 486. The doctor died suddenly and they just locked the doors. No one had been in there for over a decade. When I was looking around we found some bananas just like that. The use by date on everything 1993 or so. Needless to say I told him to junk the computers.








  • My super annoying power is a sense of smell similar to the person in the post. I can smell ants, roaches and sick humans. I can smell all kinds of things and it has its uses. I can small bad food and mold a day or so before it is apparent to others.

    The downside is that I can small all kinds of things such as horrible BO that others can’t. I can smell when women are menstruating. I can smell so many things that others can’t that I’m jealous of people who just smell things normally.