213
Soldered-on RTC batteries (with type covered as a bonus) (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 117 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •