an update on the farphone's battery

28/11/2025

earlier this week i shared the how-to for this website, which is running on an old smartphone

folks on lobste.rs and hacker news pointed out the fire risk of keeping a lithium battery plugged in all the time

french blogger korben even mentioned it in an article about the device

the fairphone 2 being as modular as it is, it was trivial to open the phone, pop the battery out, and duct-tape the micro-usb charging cable to the phone to avoid accidental dos

forty seconds later the farphone had booted and the web server was back up

thank you lobsters, thank you hackers, you might have prevented a tragic server explosion

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