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Re:A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries by twalla on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:38PM (#43548825)
Link to the primary source because the article is light on details and has a broken link:

https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe...

Re:A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries by metadat on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:48PM (#43548930)
Much better read than TFA, the submitted link seems written by an LLM with pronoun confusion, swapping between "he" and "it".

The tail end of the thread is particularly interesting: https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe...

I'm curious what prevents the whole contraption from certain eruption into flames over time:

https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?attachments/image_rv... (image)

Re:A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries by due-rr on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @04:08PM (#43550829)
The whole thread is so wholesome. Recommended reading :)
Re:A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries by fnordpiglet on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:17PM (#43549276)
What’s even better is that’s an entire community of people doing this. Some of those power walls are astounding.
Re:A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries by thecosas on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:44PM (#43548891)
Thank you for finding this :-)
Re:A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries by dang on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:53PM (#43552126)
We've since changed the URL (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43552105).