• Beefalo
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    1849 months ago

    This sounds like the battery and the charger’s problem to handle, not mine.

    All this tech, all this automation for every damn thing, and people keep coming at me like I’m supposed to do everything manually with my fingers and eyes and maybe an alarm or something to keep me on schedule. No. Stop it.

    Make the charger handle it, or shut up. Make the phone, the charger, and the battery handle it together, you know, with digital automation. Do not even mention it to me.

    • @[email protected]
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      349 months ago

      Your device manufacturer has designed it to break in as many ways as possible so you have to buy a new one.

      Why do you think everyone switched to non-removable batteries?

      If you don’t take responsibility for your device, you are just like the people that think not owning your own hardware is fine.

      • @[email protected]
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        99 months ago

        Why do you think everyone switched to non-removable batteries?

        Well the purported reasoning is that less shielding is required. Seems plausible but IDK how true. I assume it’s partly true.

        • @[email protected]
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          229 months ago

          Some day you will learn that nearly every justification made by corporations like this is bullshit.

          But I bet they’re glad you continue to spread it so loyally.

          • @[email protected]
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            179 months ago

            you continue to spread it so loyally

            Whatever mate.

            My comment acknowledges that it’s a dubious claim. I’d hardly call that spreading nonsense loyally.

            • @[email protected]
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              19 months ago

              Let the corps fuck you for a few more decades and you’ll be jaded like me.

              More probably because the fucking bloodsuckers are getting better at it.

              • @[email protected]
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                19 months ago

                Jaded?

                No, I think you’re just another snarky Lemmy commenter that doesn’t bother actually readying and understanding anything but trots out the same tired positions in thread after thread.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    19 months ago

                    Very happy how I am thanks, but then it’s not me bemoaning being jaded having been rorted by corps my whole life or some such.

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      9 months ago

      Samsung phones have the capability to do this. There’s a setting you can set to only charge to 80%. It looks like they mention that in the article.

      Android phones in general have something called Adaptive Charging that attunes to when you normally need a full charge. For instance if you are charging at night while you’re sleeping it will charge slower than it would during the day to improve battery health.

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        9 months ago

        Mine automatically charges to 80% if you have an alarm set, then it charges the rest in the last minutes.

    • @[email protected]
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      209 months ago

      Yup. If it’s such a huge issue, phones should only charge to 80% and report that to the user as 100%. But phone manufacturers won’t do that, because users want to be able to report the longest battery life possible when selling new phones. They don’t care that the charging habits are bad for battery longevity, because the user has already purchased the phone.

      • @[email protected]
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        119 months ago

        And they will purchase their next phone sooner if the battery on their old phones die early.

    • @[email protected]
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      209 months ago

      100% agree. Mate, there’s an another ongoing post on lemmy about autosaving documents, and how everyone seems to think that saving files with their fingers pressing keys on a keyboard is the best approach possible in 2024 because software just can’t do this reliably.

      Of course everyone also knows better than their charger, battery and device.

    • @[email protected]
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      119 months ago

      No, it’s your problem.

      The manufacturers correctly surmise that most people prefer a battery that holds it’s charge longer over the first year or so, rather than a battery that will last more years.

      If your preferences differ from that of most people, then you need to exercise your preferences.

      • @[email protected]
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        459 months ago

        He’s directing it to a forum of people under a topic regarding phones not being optimized to charge past 80%. Quite a fair frustration I’d say, since most people charge their phones while sleeping. The technology should stop charging automatically

        • @[email protected]
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          79 months ago

          Most Android phones do, hell even the experimental phones like PinePhone do. You just have to flip a toggle.

          • @[email protected]
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            39 months ago

            Except many like mine don’t have that option. The best they have is “optimized” charging that tries to only hit full when you go to unplug it.

        • VaultBoyNewVegas
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          39 months ago

          I charge mine at night with an alarm on it for getting up in the morning, my dad however charges his multiple times a day as he puts it on when it only drops down to 95-80%.

      • @[email protected]
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        99 months ago

        I doubt this is directed at ifixit. I agree with their general comment, but at the same time device manufacturers have no incentive to make their devices last longer unless they are forced to.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        Sir, this is a lemmy. It’s all about figuring out how to be the most outraged rather than the most rational.

          • @[email protected]
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            59 months ago

            It’s funny how people think that the users here are substantially different than reddit users. It’s the same shit, just fewer of us and the political alignment is further left.

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      9 months ago

      When you say “make it do x and y” who should be the person that does it? Without raising enough awareness of the problem, change will not happen. The only way for it to happen is that enough people is pissed off and changes brands.