He’s not talking about 80/20 limits. he’s talking about material breakdown at extremes. Not all manufacturers spec in 80/20 limits. AFAIK, only Samsung actually lets you stop it completely at 80, the rest just try to let it sit no higher than 80 all night.

If they were saccrificing 40% of runtime to keep you from having to replace your battery, that would 100% be in the sales pitch.

And honestly, that article isn’t a great source of truth. A number of the statements in there are inaccurate or, at the very least, misleading.

Charging beyond 100% or below 0% is mostly BS. The proper max voltage of the battery is a physics thing, they are in equilibrium at 4.7 / cell. Picking at a low power limit is up to the manufacturer and their choice in power distribution circuitry. He asked the chemist if you could overcharge or overdischarge a battery and mistook that as an answer that it was feasible to overcharge/overdischarge them.

“Leaving a charger plugged in at the wall and turned on wastes energy False (well, maybe a tiny bit)” This is still true for many chargers, and calling it out as a little bit in his own arbitrary numbers is disingenuous.

“Batteries perform worse when they’re cold False (mostly)”

Rest assured, your C rating is wildly affected by temperature; he’s trying to again call it out as slight, which is making his own narrative.

“Powering off a device occasionally helps preserve battery life False”

The whole time your phone is on, you are charging or discharging. Those cycles wear on the battery any time you shut your phone off, you are in the least damaging mode for your battery, especially if it’s around 50% or so.

“Using an unofficial charger damages your phone True”

100% BS, using a crappy charger might damage your phone. Buying a quality 3rd party chager is no problem at all.

The author doesn’t appear to have a strong electronics background and he didn’t ask the right questions or fully understand the importat parts of the answers

“And if too much current is delivered to a battery, that could mean ripping out too many of those lithium ions and leading to the same kind of degradation you read about earlier. That’s not to say that all off-brand chargers will be this bad, Griffith notes, but you’re still probably better off sticking with an official model.” is not the same as “Using an unofficial charger damages your phone”

Motivational posters are the worst. I’ve never worked at a place that had them that didn’t have their head up their asses.

Want to motivate me? Give me good wages, lots of vacation and keep the shitheads out of the company. Current place puts a premium on culture fit, anyone can interview, if any single person is uncomfortable, they’re a no-go. We’ve had some solid talent booted out the door because they couldn’t stop from being as ass for a couple hours.

10 THINGS YOU CAN SAY TO YOUR EMPLOYEES TO DEMEAN THEM AND SNEAKILY ENCOURAGE THEM TO EMBRACE YOUR WAGE THEFT.

You’ve already seen it most likely, that stupid bipedal robot that isn’t autonomous yet and can barely navigate on a concrete floor.

It’s simply a way to get a trillion dollars by spending a few million on a project that gets scrapped.

Also, it was a joke about keenflame asking us to fuck them and that being a niche community.

Seriously though, the algorithm is a powerful mistress. Every time somebody leaves here to go visit a niche community that we’re lacking. They get a taste of that sweet algorithm again.

I managed to pretty much carve out all the algorithms in my social graph. Most of the stuff I’m seeing is from communities that I’ve curated. There is no doom scrolling on my feed. I really dearly love being able to consume, get the most important news and a couple of lols and then go about my day.

All dig needed was the Florida man tag, And not to release dig 2.0

Depends on your guidelines for competitors. Just discussion, discord, x, bluesky, Facebook, Mastodon, many suck it up and go back to Reddit.

Meaningfully no :)

that line to the left would just sit there near 0 and squiggle :)

Messy, the peaks are from when Reddit did stupid shit or when bots where rampant, there’s no one taking out ads, app stores aren’t promoting us, this is all organic traffic. I think we’re pretty healthy honestly. There’s still a little flux, some churn right at the top as people who need those niche communities still flirt with reddit.

I tried to stand up a couple of channels for games I was playing, most of my contributions were met with nothing or downvotes and no reasons so I just changed servers and let them go.

The worst of the trolls seem to get bored and move on.

Most of the posts here have good intentions and the admins are trying to keep things good

I mean, we could, but we lack the niche communities…

;)

Be bored because there’s an overwhelming amount to do, but it’s all so vague and horrible that you can’t overcome the couch-intertia to start.

That only covers games that are loosely using servers for communication, piracy and cheating. That also puts game companies into the realm of losing their IP if they shut down temporarily in an acquisition. If you start a studio, run out of cash and get aquired, you’ll actually want that game you made to still be worth something, it doesn’t just affect those AAA players.

I think you need to add something like an escrow with x months of running costs. Once that well runs dry you need to go down to the providing a working server. I’ve been through the industry and I can confidently tell you that an API isn’t enough for a hell of a lot of games. Some of the stuff I’ve seen, it would take the actual game team a half a year to bring it back up with the source because the stuff they were using when they went under was ancient. You don’t want to buy a server authoratative game and wait around a year while the community tries to ressurect it.

cut the flower out with 45 degree angles, shallow slice the skin top to bottom at quarter intervals, you can crack it open, takes practice.

Alternatively, you can open them underwater in a large pot, picking out the pith, if you do puncture a seed or 7 it won’t make a huge mess.

I don’t even know how much help I removed from reddit before I left. The only sub I left in tact was the lemmy sub to help people escape at the time.

It’s like some automotive designers have never considered the concept of car maintenance. The new beetle when they came out either needed a battery removed or the inner-fender moved to get to the headlight on one side.

The on the contrary, I had a 2011 honda pilot that had a door in the fenderwell so you could get to the upstream o2 sensor

When freedom of speech breaks down, and the government is logging / tracking all social media on the front end and back end AND private communication tools are under attack, nothing is really safe anymore. Most disturbingly, once they deem X or Y to be unlawful, if you’ve EVER talked about X or Y, you’re at risk.

Sorry, i have a hammer, you know how that goes ;)

You know… I’ve been tracking political stuff in a bookmark manager. Would Jira actually do a better job? I could link things together and write about updates…

OMG, I fixed a specific whirlpool fridge by searching the model name and hum click on youtube.

There’s a tiny heater disk that makes a thermistor boost in value to change over from start to run windings. It was a $7 part available on amazon or half a dozen parts sites.

Local service techs get $120 to knock on the door.