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1. Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Mar-2023 11:12:41 JST Nanoraptor

   Do you have even a minor retro collection? Or some older machines still running? The batteries inside them, especially 1/2AA lithiums, do tend to leak and destroy everything in their bubbling corrosive wake. Check for them and remove them all.

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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 22:45:53 JST Moon

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     @NanoRaptor this is the PSA we need
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 22:45:53 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Moon
     you think those are bad you should see nicds 💀
   • Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 06:55:03 JST Nanoraptor

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

     @PhenomX6 the bit I dislike about the little lithiums (though they’re not soldered on thankfully!) is they can let go and boil & spatter their innards suddenly. Rest In Peace se/30. Especially the late 80s early 90s ones - in the most desirable models of course!

   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 06:55:03 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     Yep. NiCDs are more of an Acorn, Amiga, vintage PC, x68000, and PC-98 thing.
     
     It's not uncommon to hear about an x68k totaled by a battery leak or after numerous repairs, how it will never "work right" but yet someone can fish a x68000 out of what looked to be a flooded basement and it'll work if it had a coin cell. Essentially NiCD leakage and those acid bombs in Macs are worse for the hardware than Japanese climate conditions.
     
     https://www.leadedsolder.com/2022/01/25/x68000-dirty-pro-part-1-case-repair.html
   • Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 10:16:21 JST Nanoraptor

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

     @PhenomX6 It's surprising what a board can survive when it's not battery damage! I had a IIcx that'd been through a flood, full of silt, and had a mouse nest built inside it with all the pee that entails. Washed it off and it fired right up.

     Alas, it suffered an ADB failure many years later. RIP.

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