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Soldered-on RTC batteries (with type covered as a bonus) (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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This battery lasts the life of the router under the operating environmental conditions specified for the router, and is not field-replaceable.

But who determines its lifespan?

Knowing there is a battery set to fail and I can't simply replace it makes me physically uncomfortable. Enough so that I'd rather it not have RTC.

Thanks Cisco.

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[-] riplin@lemm.ee 113 points 2 years ago

If you think that’s bad, some old arcade cabinets had suicide batteries. Their only purpose was to keep a sram chip alive that held a decryption key. Battery dies? No more game for you.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 73 points 2 years ago

DRM sucks as usual.

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Vintage DRM 🙄

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