I suspect some (not enshitified) devices even designed around it because I remember it killing devices back in the day but the more recent times I’ve had it happen, like with a wireless guitar controller, the device was fine, just a bit crusty in the battery area. Though if you’ve ever opened up a guitar controller, they are mostly empty space, so it might just be the nature of their use case vs something like a gameboy, where everything is packed in as much as the thermal situation allowed.
The forbidden frosted sugar.
It has happened enough times to me being really aware of removing batteries of any device that does not see constant use
I suspect some (not enshitified) devices even designed around it because I remember it killing devices back in the day but the more recent times I’ve had it happen, like with a wireless guitar controller, the device was fine, just a bit crusty in the battery area. Though if you’ve ever opened up a guitar controller, they are mostly empty space, so it might just be the nature of their use case vs something like a gameboy, where everything is packed in as much as the thermal situation allowed.