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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 3 days ago

As a millennial: all the time

What I did only experience once, was a leaking alkaline battery while in use

Mouse stopped working. Opened it up, only to be greeted with freshly squeezed battery juice dripping out of the battery

Mouse worked fine with new batteries, so no short in there.

Was even high end Duracell

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

high end Duracell

This has become an oxymoron in the last few decades.

[-] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

Bought out by berkshire hathaway in 2016 and they've been absolute garbage since then. I haven't bought them for years, they aren't worth anything.

[-] Evoliddaw@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah I just threw out half of a 30 pack of procells because they look like this. Expiry date is next year.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Now that I think about it, that’s about when I switched to energizer. Were they owned by berk?

[-] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Energizer is not owned by berkshire.

[-] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

That explains a lot. The last package of Duracell batteries I bought all died before their expiration date. Store-brand is better than that.

[-] bracelet4002@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago
[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

I hate to be counted as a gen z because my mind is less there and more inbetween.
Anyway, I think people forgot how genz starts at 1997. People. Some were 10 years old in the 2000s and al we had were battery toys and outside to play with...

this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2026
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