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cjbprime on Jan 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Charisma Machine: The life, death, and legacy ...

Because when the screen is visible to a user, the back of the screen is pointing at the ground, not the sun.

Here's a video of an external panel running the laptop: https://youtu.be/ITHNbOrPQyM

csdvrx on Jan 18, 2022 [–]

The idea is, when unused, the laptop could be left in the sun, where the back of the screen could trickle charge it without any user intervention.

Ideal? no. Better than having no power or using a crank? yes.

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