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%).

My local charity shop has an arse load of DVDs.

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.

developer verification can be disabled, bypassed, or worked with

In reality this is useless given the technical capabilities (or access to the technology necessary) of nearly every android user. What percentage of them do you think has the capacity and capability to use ADB?

you called it sideloading removal, which it isn’t.

Strictly it ticks the box, however effectively it is sideloading removal. Arguing otherwise honestly makes me think you work for them. It’s such obvious marketing bullshit “Oh, we left this tiny window open to tick the box which people can use, but almost certainly not you and even if you are capable, it’s a pain in the arse”. There are lots of intelligent people in my house. I’m the only one capable of using ADB without enormous effort, making it a deliberately huge barrier and even I’m not going to do it to install a trusted open source app.

Let’s be clear; the only reason they left that little window open was to have people like you say “no, sideloading is still possible” to cover their arses legally and also for actual developers, not because they care about an open ecosystem.

Adb is functionally useless for most people.

Looking forward to seeing them :)

Oh fantastic! Looking forward to those!

Welcome! Yeah I’m not sure how I came across it in the other place but it just brought a little joy to my life. I do love a good bench.

You should be able to pick up an old style timer plug for under 10 euro / USD in your hardware store.

They’re a tiny bit fiddly to set up but given how power hungry those things are you’ll be saving money in no time.

We have one around here somewhere. I’ll see if I can dig you out a picture.

Internet was faster…

Is it a subscription though? Investors like that

2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.

Heads up if you’re a microwave popcorn person - they’re apparently choc full of microplastics. :( Think it was a recent Veritasium video I learned that in and stopped buying them.

That video was amazing! Super work tbh.

Yeah, all fair points. I do love the convenience of using my phone to pay too in fairness.

This may seem like a silly solution but maybe pop your debit card inside your phone case. It should bop through it.

I am not surprised in the slightest. I mean if you have a bunch of smart, highly motivated people it sounds like keeping the crazy man at arms length is the kind of thing they’d organise very effectively.

NASA is clearly capable of things given the right circumstances and budget.

Absolutely agree with this but there is no denying the innovation levels at spacex are higher (I’m not saying this is down to musk specifically. The man is a horror story of a human).

We were all in total awe when seeing booster stages land themselves successfully for the first time. It was such a giant leap forward and to the best of my knowledge no government funded space agency was even considering it before spacex.