The tiny battery that keeps your computer's clock alive
No matter how advanced your massive, multi-thousand-dollar desktop rig is, its ability to remember what time it is while unplugged relies entirely on a cheap, tiny, silver watch battery slapped directly onto the motherboard. If that three-dollar coin battery dies, your hyper-advanced silicon supercomputer instantly believes it is the year 2005 again.

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