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Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News (www.ifixit.com)
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (36 children)

If you don't ever charge it to over 80% then it's effectively already degraded 20% since the day you got it. I'll rather just use it as intented and then replace the battery when it no longer holds charge. That's just one of the reasons I didn't buy one with built in battery.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (25 children)

But increasingly the batteries are glued in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Increasingly I buy fairphones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I nearly did, but I wanted to try GrapheneOS. Until now I've been LinageOS without Google (over a decade), but I've had to compromise and wanted to reduce how much that compromised me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know sooner or later I'll have to degoogle. Maybe once I know the first thing about how to run my home server I'll get to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nextcloud fills a lot of the hole. I still use Google as little as I can, but I was bumping into apps that were are hard requirement to do things. Banking apps (no seperate security device anymore), EV charger apps (old chargers don't all have simple card payment) is just two classes.

We have a real issue here. The duopoly of Google and Apple is being reenforced by infrastructure requiring apps. Regulators need to wake up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a whole system of bad incentives, yeah. I'll make a note to look into nextcloud, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I use Nextcloud for my auto-photo uploads, calendars, contacts, notes and passwords. I've been using it at least 8 years. It's great. 😃

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