Oh my god I posted last 3 days ago ? Feels like a week ago. By the way yall, while I was away, I now got 32 18650 batteries of varying capacities harvested primarily from laptops and a few powerbanks, 8 lithium-ion AA's, 8 NiMH AA and about 12 NiMH AAA's, all eneloops lol.
I now spent about more or less $200. I gotta stop self-funding my research cos I'm about to run out..
I've also been using the cardboard box my RTX 3060 came with, lol.
I don't even know when I've last updated my archlinux rig and my vm's of various distros, but the snowflake proxy's almost donated a terabyte of bandwidth for 9 days now so yeah
Not an ad for XTAR, but did y'all know some rechargeable batteries now have USB-C ports?!?! My brother definitely found it weird, lol
It's pricier than a regular eneloop though
#xtar #batteries #electronics #usb #archlinux #linux #debian #fedora #ubuntu #voidlinux #snowflake #tor #torproject #censorship #eneloop
I could definitely buy a pair of these, but I have so much batteries and I have no more money.
I read these types of batteries are actually 3.6v Li-ion batteries stepped down to 1.5v by a buck converter built right into the battery itself.
But yeah these have circuitries inside that convert that voltage and they also use up the charge in the battery and I read they run 24x7 so yeah. That's one drawback.
Also multimeters will constantly report 1.5v to these kinds of batteries as long as they still have a charge. When the battery inside is used up, it'll suddenly drop to 1.1 or 1.0, which means everything that uses these batteries will just stop working right then and there.
I read new ones will "emulate" an alkaline battery. Of course those are even pricier and I'd be a fucking idiot to buy something I definitely don't need.
I'll stick to eneloops but I'll be interested with this regardless
Really Lazy Bear 