That laptop is no longer a laptop, it is a bomb.
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A photo of an extremely swollen HP laptop. The panels are kept on with clips. The caption says: "User calls about disc being stuck in another computer, mentions off hand about this laptop. They'd been using it like this for weeks...
Sure, that's probably true (we could quibble over "0%" and the nuances of hyperbole), but my confidence that the clearly damaged battery in front of me is completely discharged and won't cause harm is far less than my confidence in PPE saving my eyesight. When giving information to strangers on the internet, I like to play it conservative.