See my comment above with the battery university link, small depth of charge/discharge and frequent cycling is optimal for lithium ion batteries. The longest longevity was many 75-65% cycles, followed by 75-25%, then 85-25%, and lastly 100-25%. There’s nothing wrong with small cycles on lithium ion batteries.

I don’t believe you’re correct. Small discharge cycles are not at all bad for the battery.

https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries/

Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life. The exception may be a periodic calibration of the fuel gauge on a smart battery or intelligent device.

If you look at figure 6, cycling from 75-65% was better than 75-25%.

You’re thinking of keeping the battery constantly charged at an elevated voltage, eg 90-100%. There’s nothing wrong with many small cycles. The most optimal way to use a lithium ion would be many charge cycles and the battery constantly going from 49-51%.

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As soon as most Android boot loaders were locked, I jumped ship. If I’m in a walled garden, I’d rather the garden be as nice as possible. Also, I don’t really want a customizable computer in my pocket, I want a communications appliance. I have a computer at home to tinker with.

Don’t care about file management, files app works just fine for sneakernet trading with coworkers.

Don’t care about deep customization, I think this makes most phones look worse, not better. It also makes troubleshooting harder when my parents or kid have changed everything.

With regards to price, I find Apple phones are cheaper in the long run; I can buy a refurb phone for my mom and it’ll get updates for 5+ years. My experience with Android was 1 year of updates. That alone was enough to push me away.

Ultimately I just don’t care about phones anymore. They all are boring and I want the easiest family fleet of devices to manage. For me, Apple is easier. I can fuck with phones less and do literally anything else more.

It’s very cool to hate on common core.

Alabama and Mississippi teach common core math same as most other states.

And yet the states with the highest scores are blue states that teach common core, and Alabama is consistently in the lowest 10-15 states.

The metric referenced in OPs meme is improvement, not raw scores. Alabama improved from really bad to below average. They’re not scoring better than NY or CA.

Alabama’s 8th grade math scores are literally 50th of the 50 states. The only lower grades are DC and PR.

Pausing time would be worse than living forever. I could not imagine a greater torture.

That’s not how bacteria are transferred. They aren’t just wafting off the turd and going airborne. If you place a shit in the vicinity of a Petri dish in a sterile field, it’s not going to grow anything.

Ain’t no way your FLAC albums are larger than uncompressed WAV. The only >2GB FLAC albums I have are massive compilations with 50+ tracks. They’re smaller than WAV, and that’s at max 700MB per CD. Spot checking, it looks like most of mine are ~500MB per album.

You’re not considering the iPod DAC which is higher quality than most cellphone DACs. Also, thinking 40GB fits 10 FLAC albums is stupid. This isn’t correct even for uncompressed WAV files.

I can’t imagine putting this much effort into complaining about someone using their media player of choice. People like vinyl and even cassettes because they’re a different experience, do you write up paragraphs about that too?

That’s regurgitation is how they transmit disease. Fuck mosquitoes.

Two words. Fuck, pretty easy to understand. Off, really easy to understand. Fuck off, Bobandy.

I see two problems with your assessment here.

1. The gearbox is not going to be an issue. It will be very low torque if you try to drive it from the generator side because of that reduction. You’d have to spin it very fast but it would be low torque. The gearing makes it easier, not harder, like a car in first gear. (Or, from the power generation perspective, like engine braking in first gear.)

2. The blades aren’t running in reverse. You’d rotate the shaft the same direction as when it’s generating power.

I don’t see this as tipping, more like a commission. If I don’t have to decide, it isn’t tipping. The only issue I see is it makes the items seem 20% cheaper than they actually are.

What’s the difference between a $120 check that has wages factored into menu prices and a $100 check with a $20 service charge? They’re both $120.

Tsar/Czar is also derived from Caesar.

Maybe if you have a bad bank, I’ve checked mine and it’s competitive. April 17 I did a Bandcamp transaction in GBP, charged my Chase card and got <1% difference in USD compared to the mid-market exchange rate on that date. It’s $90.21 on my statement, $89.92 when I calculate it, so +0.3% off the mid-market rate.

If you’re getting anything worse than this, you’ve got a shady bank, and there’s no lack of competition.

It’s not hard to find a bank that only charges a 1% fee on the spot exchange rate. You shouldn’t be using a debit card (“cash in the account”) almost anywhere. Credit is so much better.

How often are you spending >$500 vs <$500 on a single transaction in a foreign currency?

Don’t use a bank that charges $5 for currency conversion. If it’s anything more than an additional 1% it’s a shit bank. Always charge things in the local currency and let your bank do the conversion for +1%. Need cash? Hit a real bank ATM (not a shady kiosk one) with a debit card that refunds ATM fees and withdraw local currency for +1%. Currency conversion any other way is a complete ripoff, aside from ordering money from the bank before you leave.