OnePlus claim it’s not and a quick search does back that up. For the one specific to my phone they move a chunk of the work off the device (reducing heat on the phone) and onto the charger. It’ll still charge normally with any USB charger but it gets much hotter and is much slower compared to the OnePlus “warp” charge.

Yeah, a friend of mine made a similar argument and I hear it. Personally I’m always right beside a fast charger so it’s not an issue for me.

My phone has an option to auto-stop charging at 80% so I use that. I will occasionally charge it to 100% but like maybe once a month. TBH if it had an option to stop at 90% I’d probably use that as a middle ground (my steam deck does and I use 90% with it). I got 5 years out of my last phone and I’m 3 years into the current one and hoping to get many more out of it.

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Personally I charge to about 95% and my phone batteries remain at 98-100% condition after 2 years of everyday use.

That’s a good reference point, cheers. Do you not find it a pain to monitor that though?

For anyone wondering what “10,000 lifetime cycles” means, it’s full charge / discharge to the point that the batteries are at 80% of original capacity so 10,000 is to me an absolutely incredible number.

A typical phone battery is rated for about 500 (you can massively improve this by not charging it beyond 80%).

Sounds like you’re crushing it! Well done and good luck with the Baccalaureate!

“Decentralized?”

“Like email” is a quick way to explain that.

Yes, but I felt I was living through a different era. My point was that recently it hasn’t felt that way. Maybe not in 20 years.

I wasn’t replying to OP though. I was replying to someone saying that living through an era makes it harder to discern the changes. I didn’t really agree with that because the 90s felt different from the 80s, even as I lived through them.

I dunno. The 80s had a very particular vibe. When the 90s came along, it just felt different, even as I lived through it.

I think the 2000’s didn’t feel that much different than that 2010’s.

But yeah maybe it’s recency bias.

Came here to recommend Brother printers. They willingly accept non-Brother ink (at least my one does).

Honestly love the first amendment in the US. That video is gas!

My local charity shop has an arse load of DVDs.

Thanks. I just did because of this. Holy cow.

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Just wanted, months later, to say thanks for this recommendation. I don’t get much gaming time but I did wishlist this and picked it up for a song and have been playing an hour here or there of it and thoroughly enjoying it.

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This really is the clear solution. The consequences of it though could be dire.

Google employee confirmed. Absolute trash reasoning verging on trolling it’s so ridiculous. Wild that you arguing so vehemently in favour of reduced access to use your hardware the way you want.

All of them

Laughable. You’ve obviously never worked in any kind of customer support role.

Most people are going to melt at the steps necessary to use adb.

capacity isn’t willpower.

By capacity I meant access to hardware. There are so many people in poorer countries out there that don’t have a laptop, permission to start using one for installing adb on it but also have an android phone.

welcome to an effective deterrent.

I don’t want an effective deterrent that effectively kills fdroid and the like. That’s the whole point. I’ve favoured android because it’s more open. The talking points in favour of it pale in comparison to the loss of freedom.

If casual users can’t bother with a straightforward procedure

Honestly just jog on. Please. It is not a straightforward procedure and my threat model shouldn’t need to include the steps you outline. There are already barriers in place that put off casual users.

The fact that you want people to stop installing open source apps that they trust is honestly deranged. Deranged.

Yeah it was pre-upscaled. I don’t think there’s any higher quality source available than the DVDs so it was almost certainly the original source.

I watched an upscaled version of Star Trek Voyager and it blew the socks off the crappy DVD or Netflix version. There were issues around edges in places but overall it looked markedly better.

Oh I agree that gross levels of wealth are the bigger problem by a country mile. We’re in total agreement there.

People earning half a million a year are still raking in money from earned wealth from excess money. I suppose my objections are twofold; that it’s a donations based organisation and that wages just shouldn’t be that high (and I grant you hers are at the lower level of many large companies C level packages).