While all this talk about Smartphone battery replacement is happening, nobody seems to ever talk about the laptop batteries these days also being a hassle to replace.
30 year IT Professional here, who has run laptop depots.
Absolutely mandatory in an enterprise environment.
The number of dead batteries I have seen throughout the years is too many to count. Having to dispatch a replacement laptop, instead of just a battery is really irritating. Sure the affected laptop comes back and my techs can take care of it and put it back into inventory. That comes with the cost of needing to keep extra full laptops in the rotation. Not to mention having to cross ship two laptops. Instead of just having much cheaper batteries that I can send off to the user, then they pop it in and drop off the old battery at a local store that accepts used batteries.
Having to dispatch a replacement laptop, instead of just a battery is really irritating.
How many Help Desk 1 techs does it take to change a lightbulb?
“Turned bulb off and on again. Confirmed bulb as non functional; room was still dark. Dispatched new room.”I like how your first hand experience is “It’s a necessity, duh!” and execs area still racking their brain going “idk, what profit does this leave us”.
For laptops the battery replacements are easy to do usually. Apple is the only one who’s devoted their whole brand to making it impossible to repair full sized devices. I’ve replaced about 15 random dell laptop lithium batteries in the last year.
Apple is the only one who’s devoted their whole brand to making it impossible to repair full sized devices.
Here’s a reminder that the iFixIt brand name (some of the best at-home repair tools you can easily buy) started as a joke, because Apple devices were so notoriously difficult to repair.
I own one of these. I have zero issues replacing the cells 😃
Laptop looks like it’s 3 inches thick
I recently gave up on ARM because I couldn’t figure out how to build Alpine Linux for a nanoPi R6S despite spending hours with ChatGPT, talking to someone in India, etc. It’s kind of depressing because I love my Raspberry Pi and a ton of other ARM devices, but I guess you need to be a total neck beard to get it working.
Maybe ChatGPT isn’t a good source?
Well I asked in Linux communities all around the internet and got no help there, so maybe ChatGPT was more helpful than all the randos with an attitude problem.
I got more help from the meme subreddits than from anywhere else.
My advice, make a meme about it or find a relevant meme with your issue.
It’s so easy, just post false information, someone will correct it.
