• Beefalo
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    1511 year 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.

    • @seanziepples@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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.

    • @SkippingRelax@lemmy.world
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      191 year 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.

    • @mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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      191 year 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.

      • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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        51 year 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.

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      161 year 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.

    • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      51 year 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.

    • @Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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.