Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop - eviltoast

Due to unfortunate circumstances (me dropping the laptop) I have now ended up with a half broken laptop that has a broken screen and a dying battery. I could repair it, however, I don’t wanna bother as I’m very likely gonna be getting a new one soon.

The laptop itself still works fine, however the broken screen and dying battery make it pretty much useless as a laptop and I already have a home lab NAS thing, so I’m kinda out of ideas on what to do with it. Any ideas?

Here are the specs:

CPU: i5-8300h

GPU: intel HD830/GTX1050ti

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 128GB SSD

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    8 months ago

    What part is the myth?

    Which batteries are “high quality”?

    Cause it happens… Pretty regularly if you’re not limiting charging. The older the battery the more likely.

    This isn’t something you should fuck around with either: if it pops it’ll burn too hot to extinguish and could take out your house.