• areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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    14 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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      6 hours 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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        4 hours ago

        Probably for as long as raspberry pis have been around. There have been plenty of scares with phone chargers exploding, and that’s what a raspberry pi is powered from. Laptop chargers haven’t had many issues in the past decade or so.