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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 112 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago

DRM sucks as usual.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

Vintage DRM 🙄