>>106218741
Small AA batteries occasionally leak so you should store them outside of appliances when those appliances are not in use. Bigger batteries have worse consequences, and I can't be bothered to find out how to take the batteries out of the laptop when I'm not using it for a long period. It's been okay for now and everytime I turn on the old laptops after a few years, they are fine, but I know that the battery is breaking down, and one day, gas will build up in the battery and it will vent, and the small amount of remaining charge will light the gas, and the battery will be smoldering away inside the laptop while I sleep, and I'll die.