A reason to say \”Goodbye\”

Our old Google Nexus 5 phone concerns me a bit. Look:

This must be the battery swelling up, and it\’s getting worse – so much so that by now it\’s hard to even switch it on or off.

And since that\’s a Lithium based battery, this could mean danger – we\’ve heard often enough that these things can catch fire. I\’ve looked up spare parts, and while LG doesn\’t sell original batteries (or whole phones for that matter) since a few years anymore, 3rd party offerings at Amazon & Co. start at around 20€. Which means that it\’s probably not economically viable anymore to invest that much into a 10-year-old phone, even if with LineageOS it has the latest and greatest Android 13 on it.

Too bad. But I think this one has to go into recycling then. Can\’t give it away to anyone else, and probably endangering them…

Like always, thanks for reading.