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
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Yes, I was surprised to see these at Costco recently.
They are expensive, but offer the advantage of not having to carry a bulky charger, instead a cable that feeds 4 batteries from a dingle USB port. Moreover note that they are Li-ion, instead of the usual Ni-Mh.
Swings & roundabouts 😄
@viharm Yeah they're pretty cool. There are the new types that emulate an alkaline battery but one downside I found with this kind of battery is that you can't accurately determine the voltage it currently has so you can then store them.
Plus these are lithium and lithium have a tendency to blow up or cause fires so I think it's better to just buy NiMH cells. I only found it being awesome for devices that are stringent on having 1.5v or close to it all the time
Really Lazy Bear 
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