• areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      Laptop chargers are no fire hazards anymore than raspberry pi PSUs are. In fact probably the RPi parts are worse as they are built down to a cost.

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        29 minutes ago

        I would assume that landfill laptop manufacturers are trying to minimize costs even harder on the charger.

        but what timeframe do you mean with “anymore”? laptops made in this decade, or the last 10 years, or something else? there’s plenty of old laptops that fitinto OPs category.

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      18 hours ago

      I do SMB support, so I have a pretty good idea of what people tend to do.

      I haven’t seen a PS brick catch fire (possible, OFC, but extremely rare in my opinion) i have seen a PC PSU catch fire, and because of the fan, it’s fucking scsry, like a jet with the afterburner.