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How does heat mitigate the dendrites? Also doesn’t extreme heat damage the batteries? They barely hold up under high temperatures as-is.

No doubt in my mind that Silicon > Carbon.

The world would lose nothing if DeBeers went away, I think.

I think it’s true that owners of Apple products are more affluent so if I were to put on my evil capitalist hat and could collect this point of data, I would certainly at least test differential pricing just to see if it works.

I use SyncThing for syncing things, and LocalSend for just sending things.

Spreading propaganda for an authoritarian government is a serious issue.

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The consumer does not appear to mind, unfortunately.

You’ll need PowerTools for Decky: https://git.ngni.us/NG-SD-Plugins/PowerTools

Passthrough input, or charge limiting? Charge limiting was added after release but that was a while ago.

The deck has passthrough input and you can set a charge limit of 50% if it’s docked most of the time to reduce battery wear.

Why not both!

I use a bluetooth keyboard for this, solves it quite handily.

Yes, an IoT device would certainly be a huge headache if it was on a proprietary protocol, I’d avoid that if at all possible. Thankfully, they haven’t made something absolutely indispensable yet.

Where I live, cashless payments via NFC. But I have the option of using a plastic card too.

It’s really just banking, I can still use the browser for most other things.

The DMCA is a curse.

Hopefully Servo gets a good UI soon.

I’ve found it remarkably difficult to replace a battery in a modern smartphone, even as someone who’s quite handy with electronics. Any improvement is greatly welcome, and I wish we’d do more to make it easier.

It’s about usage patterns. If you know you only need 60% of the battery, charging it to 100% will degrade it more, for little utility. The newer Google phones get 7 years of updates, but without due care the battery will reach 80% of its capacity before that. On an aside, a battery is considered to have reached its end of life at a capacity reduction of 20%, and not 40%.

If you 100-0 the battery every day, then there’s not much you can do. But if you’re a lighter user, then using the 20-80% (or 40-60) part instead of the 40-100% part of the battery makes it last longer. And that’s good in terms of environmental sustainability, reduction of e-waste, and you can use the phone for longer, too.