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		dcminter on April 22, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022) With the exception of cellphones, almost everything that needed a battery in the 90s used disposable dry cell batteries. Left unattended they often leaked destroying the device. Now almost everything that needs a battery has a rechargeable one built in. There are a few downsides to that but it's a hell of a lot more convenient! As a kid in the 70s/80s any battery powered toy spent most of it's life unpowered and useless (except coin-cell powered LCD devices which always seemed to be immortal)

rahimnathwani on April 22, 2025 | [–]

In the 80s, soon after I was gifted a Sanyo portable cassette player, I bought a battery charger (10 GBP) and set of 4 nickel cadmium AA batteries.

Eduard on April 22, 2025 | [–]

And plenty of Lithium rechargeables are a statistical storage box fire liability

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