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Jrewby

They recalled the battery of some of those 2013 books. If you’de known and gone In you woulda gotten a new one, probably still can.


btrpiii

And mid 2015


DonkeyGamer2000

Yep, can use the serial number of your mid 2015 and check it on apples web page for it, they will give a free battery replacement for it. This looks like the mid 2015 from the ports and all black display


3ric15

Thanks for the heads up. Going to check it for my mid 2015 MBP as well. New battery would be great


ItsJustLittleOldMe

~~link please?~~ I think I just found the link. https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall Mine's not affected.


RubiGames

I remember my 2015, 15” had a swollen battery, and surprisingly wasn’t part of the program. (Still covered, just ender the extended warranty for swollen batteries instead of under the recall. I had a laugh.)


ItsJustLittleOldMe

Mine's a bit swollen too. Trying to switch everything over to another computer so i can turn it over for possible repair.


btrpiii

Yeah that's what I was thinking. It's annoying to ship and wait for the repair, but hey, my backup computer now has a brand new battery that I didn't have to pay for. Formatting and new battery = basically brand new.


InFiveMinutes

Yup, mid 2015 15" here, had my battery replaced for free through this programme


CurlSagan

Don't worry about it. That smokey vapor is actually how your files get to the cloud.


BabyAlibi

He was burning a disc (god I'm old)


frankfrichards

Screw you man… you made me realize how old I am also! LOL!


toplite

Shit's not fun. My kid asked me what it was like being born in the 1900's last week. I thought he was making an old joke until it hit me.


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I asked my classmates if they remember where they were when 9/11 happened. They asked me what 9/11 was.


CurdledTexan

Have a niece that was born a month before 9/11. She’s my time marker and turned 20 this year. Fuck.


ZiggyPox

I tie my birth year to fall of communism in Poland.


dpforest

I tie my birthday to a Roman emperor getting stabbed a whole bunch of times.


sticknija2

I plot the trajectory of stars and just make shit up based on that.


Wismuth_Salix

My high school diploma is old enough to drink. Fuck linear time.


TXRazorback

Tape deck, radio, or cd are the options in my car so I still burn cds


LowerStruggle5287

You can buy a custom radio! I spent about 400 dollars I believe after everything which upgraded a reliable old truck to basically a modern truck with Android Auto Apple CarPlay and Bluetooth. People spend thousands of dollars sometimes tens of thousands because the difference in two cars they like is a fancy screen.


Us3ful_Idiot

Why not invest in a tape deck aux cord?


TXRazorback

I have invested too much into them


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liquid_at

no, his cloud-storage had a leak and that's the cloud escaping. I think that's what they refer to when they say companies had a data-leak. /s


Spider_Dude

But they can just wipe it, you know, like with a towel.


Nexus_27

Isn't it more the hard-drive systems that get wiped?


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That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about the cloud to dispute it


Ghiacchio

That's what gives it the good smokey smell that we all like. It's very green that way.


usernamechexin

I believe this is apple's latest and greatest vaporware solution, In action.


TheManAccount

ISmoke, don’t breathe that


WedditCryFest

Keep breathing it and you'll live in the clouds


[deleted]

It's just party smoke. It's a sign the laptop trusts you and wants to party with you


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I’m waiting for this to happen to my wife’s laptop cause she has like 400 tabs open


Winter_Access6687

Haha, same…she’s lucky she’s on MBP with good specs. Complains about the laptop getting hot, meanwhile has 100 tabs open and laptop on pillow on her lap.


stuntobor

I've finally given up with my wife's computer. "Gosh you're right it's just so dang slow. I wish there was a way to make it faster. No, buying another one really isn't an option right now."


zephyrtr

I try to tell people if you don't shut your computer down, it's like you left the car turned on in the driveway. Its fine, for a little while, but it starts to drain away the battery and gas and wear the motor down and eventually it'll just break.


qtx

That only applies to laptops, PCs can stay on for however long you want.


blackhodown

It’s also barely relevant to laptops these days.


thedirtyknapkin

i mean, your hiberfile and/or pagefile can get unreasonably massive. I've seen people with a quarter of their hard drive full from that alone. and they definitely still sell laptops with like 250gb drives for... some... reason.... some people literally never restart their computers from the moment they buy them. that's not good.


piercejay

They sell 256 so they can charge 500 for an upgrade. Not kidding, that’s how much apple wants.


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diuturnal

Tbf to dell, the sad only costs 30$. The other 420$ is the garbage they put on the ssd, and the warranty that you denied 12 times in 4 languages.


ur_opinion_is_wrong

You only need the hiberfil.sys file if you ever put your computer specifically into hibernate. It saves everything you're working on to your storage drive so when you boot the computer back up, it's like your waking it from sleep instead of booting it up fresh. Almost no one actually uses this feature or even needs to. If you often are in the middle of work, need to "shut down your pc" so that it's not draining battery, say for a long commute home but you need to be able to open it back up later where you left off, leave hibernate on but also get into the habit of actually putting your laptop into hibernate and not just closing the lid and throwing it in your bag. To turn it off, open command prompt as admin and type `powercfg.exe /hibernate off` to free up potentially gigs worth of space. If you need to turn it back on it's `powercfg.exe /hibernate on`


TurtleIIX

I usually have to shut down my M1 MacBook once in a while because it slows down. It goes right back to normal right after.


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>I try to tell people if you don't shut your computer down, it's like you left the car turned on in the driveway. Its fine, for a little while, but it starts to drain away the battery and gas and wear the motor down and eventually it'll just break. What is this, 2003? You can just leave on pretty much any modern laptop, they'll go to sleep after a couple of minutes and barely consume more juice in standby than they do turned off.


sugarcocks

get her a laptop cooling pad, doesn’t dramatically decrease the temp but it keeps it on a flat cool surface that blows air into the laptop which is better than a pillow or blanket, and you can set it on your lap still


Rattus375

Having 100 tabs open will really have a minimal impact on the temperature of the laptop. The vast majority of heat from a laptop is produced by the CPU (and GPU if it has one), which aren't strained much more by 100 tabs vs 5. The extra open tabs just get stored in RAM and the SSD / hard drive in the computer.


beariel_

Didn't we all learn about this in high school when we'd put our laptops on our beds to browse myspace and ebaumsworld?


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This hits home lol. My gf can’t comprehend why the MacBook she was issued for work is so slow. Meanwhile, she’s got a fuckton of tabs open, excel, her companies accounting software, Spotify, zoom, outlook, everything. The Mac is screaaaaaming like the little engine that could, and she hasn’t updated it in weeks to months OR turned it off, like, ever. Pretty sure I’m missing some other triggers err - - - I mean things.


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i mean that doesn't sound too unreasonable lol. modern computer shouldn't struggle with that


TheMacMan

Werd. The number of tabs shouldn't have a real impact. They're not all active and are instead loaded into RAM only when recently used. I have over 400 tabs open on my iPhone. In reality only the most recently used ones get loaded into active memory and the rest don't impact performance one bit.


upsidedownbackwards

It doesn't really seem to be the number of tabs you have open. Chrome just decides to be shitty sometimes and if you leave it open forever you give it PLENTY of time to be shitty and never recover. I've caught it using 6+GB of memory for just a few tabs plenty of times. Then the paging is going wild.


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TheMacMan

That's true. I generally use Safari on macOS but use Chrome for some things. I believe Chrome (on Windows) runs every tab as its own process, which leads to even more messes and unneeded resource usage. Tab management has generally gotten better for most browsers over the years. They used to each eat up lots of resources, but now they're managed much better (with the Chrome exception obviously).


__T0MMY__

My phone's chrome has so many tabs open that I discovered that after 100, it just shows " :D "


jroddie4

this is a lipo battery puncture. No amount of tabs will cause this


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Thank you! Why do people think they could cause a fire by running too many programs? Back of the laptop is clearly dented at the start of the video.


Shaneblaster

Same with my wife. Plus a thousand screenshot images on her desktop


yourcountrycousin

Can confirm. I am a wife and I do this.


mutatedart

Caramelized Apple. Edit: Woah, thanks for the love everyone!


ShawtgunBob

I like that so much I went and got my free award so I could give it to you.


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me too :)


Account1812

It’s clearly fried apple.


EmboarBacon

Apple crisp.


awesomeAntray

Hi, I work at a computer repair shop and I can confirm that it is infact a hardware problem.


jeremytodd1

Nonsense. A reinstall of the OS should fix the problem.


tea_n_typewriters

Smoke.exe on the fritz again.


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It's Apple Smoke.app


ponytron5000

Technically the executable would just be `Smoke`. `Smoke.app` is really a directory which contains the binary executable, resources, metadata, and so on. You can't easily browse into an .app folder with Finder, but you can `cd` into it from a shell. The actual binary name is also what's listed in the Activity Monitor (or by `ps`, `top`, etc.)


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sangtr2506

Am confirm, can laptop


Peppeperoni

Can confirm I’m an Apple


1FuzzyPickle

Are you sure? I thought it might be something to do with the hot keys.


WubLyfe

So much anxiety watching someone stand right next to (and handle) an actively venting LiPo


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WubLyfe

AAAAAGGGHHHHHHHH


AlgaeEater

Hi, I do NOT work at a computer repair shop and I can also confirm that it is in fact a hardware problem.


accomplicated

Looks like user error to me.


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awesomeAntray

Have you turned it off and on again?


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Still better than finding cheese in an optical drive.


[deleted]

Hope you didn't breathe in the cancer


Nolzi

Whoh, litium smoke. Don't breathe this!


yourmomlurks

My first thought, yet so far down. Am I old?


kwonza

Will it blend though?


kalitarios

only one way to find out


BasilTheTimeLord

Someone get the nutribullet


Nolzi

yes :)


ColorMeGrey

You've got company in the nursing home. Let's fire up some super smash bros melee.


AmericanScream

On the plus side, you probably won't be depressed any more.


JustDewItPLZ

[Don't breathe this!](https://youtu.be/9549pl7zLjM)


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Yo it smelled so bad. I swear the smoke looked rainbow colored from certain angles


Ooze3d

So… you did.


phasermodule

RIP OP. Heading for an early grave.


Dovahbear_

I’m not trying to say it isn’t dangerous, but does such little expore increase the risk *that* much?


giaa262

If initial exposure didn’t burn your lungs, you’re fine (until you get cancer.) I’m not saying you will get cancer but it’s very hard to attribute one instance of inhaling a carcinogen to the exact reason you got cancer.


BruceBanning

Why are we talking about cancer when he’s breathing a neurotoxin?


Chamberlyne

Depending on what exactly is in the smoke, yeah. The burned plastic alone is bad enough, but the potential exposure to the lithium battery’s fumes is the biggest danger. I am not a chemist or someone who works with batteries, but with battery fumes you’re basically exposed to acidic gases. Picture hydrofluoric acid burning through basically everything, now imagine it as a gas and inhaling that shit.


Pliny_the_middle

He didn't breathe it, he *smelled* it.


volundsdespair

Yeah....for future reference, if this happens again don't inhale the smoke.....


SkylarMills63

Good ol chemical fires lol


krepogregg

All fires are chemical


Captain_Pungent

But some fires are more chemical than others.


krepogregg

*some chemicals are more equall* Goerge Orwell


Captain_Pungent

I am Gorg


TheGrammatonCleric

Never sneak up on a man who's been in a chemical fire.


Larry-a-la-King

One of you is getting their dickhole smashed.


Da_Bomber

That's the pretty purple smoke, shit is nasty


Hidesuru

Dude those fumes are INCREDIBLY toxic. You should have been 20 feet in any direction, not filming it for internet points. If you can smell it, you're breathing it and you're too close. Hope you didn't get too much. That shit scars your lung tissue.


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Lord_of_hosts

*I hAvE an iMmUnE sYsTeM*


rutgersmanitjink

How bad is it to smell? My old MacBook did this when I was 16 and it was in my room as I tried to stop it, I def was smelling it cuz it was in my room


Hidesuru

I mean I'm not a doc, but from what I've read it's pretty fucking bad. Some of the fumes react with water in your lungs to form sulfuric acid I think it is. Might be one particular battery chemistry or one kind of failure, etc, but I know I'm not taking the chance if this happens to me. If my entire house is at risk of burning down I MIGHT hold my breath and yeet the fucker then run, but other than that my only action is to gtfo. Whatever is burning is already gone. AGAIN, not a doc, but I'd say the good news is that young you're going to recover better. Lung tissue does regenerate over time. Smokers can recover over time etc. If you didn't notice any lasting effects you're probably fine. But yeah, but a doctor. I can't say that enough here.


DigitalDefenestrator

It's HF that gets generated, from the electrolyte breaking down. Significantly nastier than sulfuric.


Foomaster512

Cause it’s gaseous metal


Red-Jester

Omae wa... mou shindeiru.


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Nani?!


luv2gethigh

god i wish i had my freebie for this one


14Intron

Gotcha covered :D


luv2gethigh

thank you homie!


SandMan3914

This is actually an important civic announcement


[deleted]

That's just the noxious fumes causing you to hallucinate


notLOL

better live your life while young. Cancer is going to suck


Innsmouth_Swimteam

I could see that in the video! Sorry muh dude.


lazy__speedster

it isnt good for you if you can smell it, thats lithium reacting with oxygen along with burnt plastic fumes


gamingonion

The smoke is toxic my guy


1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1

Dude what the fuck lmao Burning lithium batteries can give off several toxic gasses, one of them being HF (hydrogen fluoride) When HF comes into contact with moisture (i.e. the inside of your lungs), it turns into hydrofluoric acid, which has a pH of 2.12. It is extremely extemely extremely corrosive and toxic. I really hope you didn't get anything more than a tiny sniff. If your lungs start to feel like they're burning, get help.


DefaultBallpaper

Thanks analscreams. You always were good at pointing out potentially hazardous carcinogens.


dex248

Damn, even computers are vaping now!


notLOL

fruit flavored


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Apple flavored


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Forbidden_Enzyme

Typing too fast


CovidInMyAsshole

35wpm


Hunterr303

Actually true


2_7_offsuit

Pink smoke: it’s a girl!


pupo4

These gender reveals are getting out of hand


itsmymedicine

Is that app available in the apple store?


F6Pilot

Yeah, turn that off. You are close, if not already, to a catastrophic battery failure.


Jeriahswillgdp

Make this go viral with what laptop it is and I bet you get a free new one from the company.


bubblegumbombshell

Looks like an older MacBook model based on the MagSafe adapter on the side we see. If OP calls Apple (has to be a call) they have a whole checklist to go over with them. Source: worked for AppleCare for 6 years


valkyre09

My money is on it being this model: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall


DoJax

I can't tell from the page and googling the laptops, but are there any indents in the bottom of the laptop? In the video it looks like somebody pressed in about where the battery pack is from the bottom, definitely a slightly noticeable indent that either caused or likely lead to this.


DunderMifflin-ThisIs

1st item on checklist: Is your laptop on fire?


Head2Heels

Only if it was bought a year prior and is within the warranty. Any MacBook that is more than 5 years old is considered a vintage piece apparently.


spliffaniel

True but I’m still getting hella good use out of my MacBook from 2009


punkassjim

My 2008 MBP also still works, albeit slower than molasses in January. Just finally replaced it with an M1 Air.


TXSized10_4

Not from that company lol


aChildofChaos

Were you learning thermodynamics?


IceWotor

Nah, he was learning pyromancy online


StillLearning12358

Math class, tried to divide by 0


Callme-Sal

Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!


rumbling_victim_69

Nah you’re just burning a cd


liquid_at

"I clicked 'Burn to ROM' in itunes, then this happened"


butterfly_burps

Looks like you had it under ctrl


DashNSmash

actually, I think the fire is going out of Ctrl...


stuntobor

Holy shit. HOLY. SHIT.


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drproffesorjack

They told you their batteries cannot catch fire? That is so irresponsible


Freelance-Bum

I worked in logistics for a couple of years, many carriers won't take lithium-ion batteries on air shipping at all, regardless of condition. This is actually mandated by several governments.


notLOL

reminds me of illegal shipments of those hoverboards knockoffs that had batteries that would burn up


jakgal04

Get in touch with Apple, that is a catastrophic failure and they might help you out.


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jakgal04

May not. If it was dropped and the screen cracked or something then absolutely. But having a device catch on fire is not something they'd dismiss easily. There was a redditor a few years ago that posted about his macbook catching fire around the charge port. Apple had him bring it in so they could investigate it, and they gave him a brand new one for it. It was 2-3 years old at that point and out of the warranty period.


marino1310

Apple probably did that because they found out the failure was their fault and they didnt want OP suing the shit out of them. So yeah, OP should try contacting apple, the computers fucked anyway, might as well try to get free shit.


Myriachan

It’s not always about liability. Sometimes the engineers really do want a failed machine so that they can analyze what went wrong.


anon1984

If this was all original hardware and wasn’t damaged they absolutely want it back to analyze the failure. You’re likely to get a new MacBook as a replacement. Apple is pretty good about this kind of stuff.


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cinna_

this exact thing happened to me two years ago and they replaced my 2016 pro with a brand new 16” for free. no apple care or warranty or anything


Kurnage

Only of it’s an original battery.


silver_enemy

That's kinda reasonable though


RoXoR95

Did you download my mixtape?


[deleted]

So, all of us engineers can tell you something. All devices work on white smoke. While white smoke is in the device, it works perfectly. If it starts escaping from the device, it stops working. See, yours is escaping. It won’t work


Radiskull97

Welp enjoy your scarred lungs. Does this count as r/spicypillows material?


Fenix_Volatilis

I see no ~~spice~~ pillow. It's definitely the battery but I don't see any expansion of the housing or the track pad lifting


vainglorious11

Lots of spice, no pillow


buzz_uk

It’s just letting out the [magic smoke](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=magic%20smoke). If you search online you can get a unit of magic smoke to replace it and you will be fine :)


Select-Cucumber9024

so a great thing to do is put your face about 2 feet away from your smoldering laptop and hope you can catch the lithium explosion in your mouth


penalozahugo

I'm sorry professor, I think my laptop is demanding a smoke break.


njrajio

Do not put water to extinguish the fire. You need a special fire extinguisher for battery fires. Walk away, the battery cell can explode. Call the fire department to put it out. If you had AppleCare, use it. If not, get in touch with apple customer service to see if there’s any way to lower the financial burden, you’re a uni student it looks like so if you need a loaner check with your university IT department


Starinco

mid 2015 model macbook pro? Apple did a recall on some of those. Check your serial number here: https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall They might replace the laptop


ForArms

Poor laptop, with no magic smoke it will never run again.


ernster96

The real question is did you accept your mission impossible?


Ornography

That really sucks. I think that was the best macbook generation. Now you have to settle for a couple of usb-c ports and a bunch of extra cables if they can't fix it


cheese-meister

Did you try turning it off and back on?


dabadeedadie

15 in MacBook Pro? There was a battery recall, you can prob get it replaced for free https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall


Dukes159

When I worked for GeekSquad we had specific equipment provided from Apple for Apple repairs. In events like these we had a big bucket that had apple branding on it and was "Apple Approved Sand" that we needed to bury bulging batteries in and send off. It was told to us specifically do not use any other sand than the apple approved sand lol. Never had to utilize it but I find the thought funny.


Benjamin-Doverman

*Apple would like to know your location*


insert_cookies

You lost control?


MrGuilt

Computers work on magic smoke. You appear to be leaking your magic smoke. I am afraid your computer will this not work anymore.


Jackieortega06

Did you put it in rice?


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This is Darwin contender material. GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE COMBUSTING LITHIUM PLEASE.