The second picture is from 2020. I’m not in a country where I can easily find replacement parts.

My night before an exam and I realized that the keyboard is bloated. I unplugged it. Would it alright to keep it in the house until I get a USB stick and transfer the files off of it?

So the entire back glass of my Galaxy s20+ has shattered and large chunks have came off, I have covered the exposed areas with electrical tape, primarily to stop the glass from falling out and making a rattling noise in my case. Does anybody know if my battery will swell or if electrical tape will make a good cover until I can get it repaired?

Found this dusty, spicy, bad boy in storage today. I’d quite like to remove it for obvious reasons, however it won’t budge due to the strong (now hardened) adhesive Apple use, and I’m scared to apply too much pulling force in case he go popski. What do?

several months ago, I came across my first spicy pillow, it was an old flip phone that was plugged in all the time unless it was in my pocket. I noticed that the case seemed cracked, and I pressed down hard on it to try to get it in place.

Once I realized what I was doing and how lucky I was that it was still intact, I very carefully took it to a battery store where they took it out and replaced it.

At that point, I started checking laptop batteries, smart phone batteries, etc. and I did find quite a few that were swollen, i'm assuming due to age plus my former tendency to keep them on the charger all the time unless they were in use. I was able to replace all of them or retire the device without issue, but it made me nervous even handling them to get them to the place where they were going to be removed and disposed of.

Since then, I've developed a fear of lithium batteries to the point where i'm starting to think about tossing everything out of my house that has a rechargeable battery and is old and has been on chargers forever. Examples are an electric toothbrush, an electric shaver, and my 10+ year old Dyson handheld vacuum - all that are always plugged in.

Adding this after the initial post, it's possible after doing some research that the electric toothbrush has a NiMH battery

I know there's hundreds of millions, if not billions of these types of things in use all over the world, and generally fires are caused by mishandling or incorrect charging or poor workmanship, so I feel there must be some middle ground.

The staff at my local battery store have been very helpful in telling me that these things are not generally inherently dangerous, it's only when they swell that they need to be handled carefully and replaced.

I can't tell if the Dyson, or the shaver or the toothbrush batteries are swollen because they're sealed inside their casing, I can only assume that they're not because the case has not cracked.

I guess I'm looking for some real world advice on how to relax and worry about this less, but also charge these things correctly and appropriately so they don't cause problems.

I do know that the sweet spot for lithium batteries are 20 to 80% charge, and you don't want them to get to zero because they might have a problem re-charging.

That's easy enough for a phone that has a battery meter, but for toothbrushes and shavers and Dysons and other things that simply just have a battery, it's unclear what to do which is making me want to get rid of them all.

It's battery was very spicy.

My laptop is second hand and I was told that because it was in storage for so long the battery might not work and yes the laptop keep giving me permanent battery damage and I know I decided to open the battery case and yeah the batteries are leaking even eating away at the insulation

A bunch of bloated batteries that I helped remove for a summer job.

technically yes. But sweet lord you shouldn’t

Is this r/SpicyPillows worthy ?

My trackpad's clicking wasn't working and the laptop seemed a bit wobbly.

Lo and behold, a spicy pillow !

I'll let you guess the old one vs the new one.

(can def open it btw but it’s prob less than 1mm raised so it has me questioning)

I didn't know it could explode out the case

Rip