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I really hope this doesn't become a contributing factor in a future plane crash from an onboard fire in the baggage compartment. I could see someone throwing their laptop in a suitcase with a bunch of clothes and having that heat building up into a thermal runaway. It's asinine to me that there isn't a hardware thermal sensor that just shuts off power if the heat is too high. In addition to the tragedy of an accident, what will happen is they'll probably block everyone from bringing laptops with them.


Oh, you haven't touched your laptop in 30 minutes and we just reached 35,000 feet? This must be a good time to run "Antimalware Service Executable"!


>I could see someone throwing their laptop in a suitcase with a bunch of clothes and having that heat building up into a thermal runaway.

There's this thing called Shut Down. Use it sometimes.


Why just sometimes?


Gotta learn to crawl before you can walk.




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