so, I was eating dinner in a common area of the family house when I noticed a ~decade old laptop with a swollen battery.
I brought it to the attention of the family member that owned it, and I was blown off with “just don’t use it”.
I’ve previously had them instigate/massively escalate conflicts over throwing out food that was covered in mold.
I showed a compilation of lithium battery fires and attempted to explain just how big of a hazard we were facing, especially when there isn’t a fire extinguisher in the (wood framed) house, and the family member began yelling at me over “wasting perfectly good money over imagined danger”, and then I was threatened with a 5950.
I don’t have anything remotely resembling the means to get my own housing, but this seems like an acute and imminent danger.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a better course of action than ignoring it and hoping the battery does not vent?
Can you put the laptop in a metal container, maybe outside?
It sounds like it’s being actively used by someone else who is adamant that there’s no problem, so anywhere OP might put it it won’t stay there for long.