• Ashy@lemmy.wtf
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    9 months ago

    But you can still choose to charge it to 100% when you anticipate you need that extra 20%. So it’s not really “already degraded” it’s just “on demand”.

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      9 months ago

      Which has consequences. Spontaneously staying out if you didn’t decide to charge to 100% the night before and running out of battery.

      It’s not “on demand” it’s “in stock ready for dispatch.”

      I don’t want to have to order a day ahead to get a non-degraded battery.

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        9 months ago

        If you keep it at 80% it doesn’t take a day to charge to full. As long as you know 1 or 2 hours in advance, it’ll be full.

        But yeah, if your use-case is that you spontaneously need to leave your charger and require your full battery capacity, you should keep charging it to full. Maybe even get a powerbank as well.

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          If anyone is living a life where they might not spontaneously “leave their charger” they’ve given up or have young children they have to be responsible for.

          On weekdays I know what I’m doing from when I leave my house until work ends. I might have plans after that, I might not. But I’m not going to short charge my phone because I usually go home after work in case I don’t.

          A phone battery should last as long as I might stay awake, that way I don’t have to think about it.

          People generally underestimate the mental effort of tiny decisions and micromanaging things.

          In general the most freeing thing someone can do to is ensure their future self doesn’t have to think about something.

          Anyone micromanaging their phone battery is micro-damaging their mental health.