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ddalex on July 23, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Framework Laptop is now shipping

> Hopefully your laptop and hand grenade have radically different power discharge profiles

Li battery fires are not unheard of, unfortunately, so the profiles may start to resemble sometimes.

littlestymaar on July 23, 2021 [–]

Lithium batteries burn, quite quickly but it still takes a few seconds, that can be pretty dangerous indeed but that's several orders of magnitude slower than a grenade.

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