farphone

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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

built by louis merlin under the cc by-nc-sa 4.0 license

farphone

back to home

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

built by louis merlin under the cc by-nc-sa 4.0 license