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we use this really abrasive road salt, and after the first year in VA, all new cars look like shit

I am sure they work fine in California

but you really need to actually make things that work in the area you are selling them

cars normally work better in the cold than in the heat my guess is electric cars have a slightly higher operating floor due to battery drain while idle

but I think keeping them plugged in (like a normal, non-woman would) should alleviate that

Pika, idk what it is

but all the girls I know who own electric cars

don't keep them plugged in

as if they think they're going to explode

I do not know anyone who owns an electric car

isnt keeping a battery plugged in supposed to be bad for it or something. at least thats what i keep hearing when i tell people my phone is plugged in 99% of the time

so I cannot contribute to that analysis

oh no, Dialga is a woman

i dont listen to them

if you have a raw Li-ion cell, then yes continuing to have it recieve charge is bad for it (sorta) it's complicated

So, there is a lot of complex things for batteries. I am kind of more equiped for this discussion than normal, because one of the people doing their PhD under my masters supervisor was doing control theory for batteries

but in a phone, there is a voltage regulator and 10 other things that will stop the raw cells from receiving charge when full

firmware too

How you charge a battery affects its lifespan a lot too

^

so do you ful throttle the charge, or do you do full blast, then 30% blast, then 50% blast, etc

there is a lot of fine tuning for optimizing charge time versus lifespan

most modern things like cars/phone have reserve cells, so the complex structure of the overall battery only ever drains/charges between 10% and 90%

and then yeah, good chargers draw in a cycle

Active research is currently how to optimally charge a battery without full information about the internal state of the battery

so its not a settled science in any way

and there's unavoidable degredation over time, so things like cars also have much more capacity than they advertise

and we'll probably not use Li-ion forever (hopefully)

so we'll have to relearn all that science too Pika

battery technology is one of the most critical research areas

your PHD friend has a job forever

double value job, since it was machine learning based lol

but yeah, I think battery stuff is interesting

but yeah, I mean it when I say

100% of girls

don't keep their shit plugged in

the famous android solution to scheduled charging was also machine learning based

The coolest part of my masters was now I know a strangely abnormal amount of math behind battery charging and mosquito population control

and come to think of it, I feel like boomers also keep random appliances unplugged when they leave the house

or don't leave the house when the oven/stove is on or w/e

I also am stingy and do not want my microwave clock to waste 2 cents

Pika, I'm not going to make fun of you

what do you leave plugged in?

probably keep your freezer on

Its less unplugging and more I just hit the switch on my power bar

I need to know how much you and my grandmother overlapped

I do not unplug my stove or fridge

because she had a really weird list of things

everything else is currently unplugged or power bar switched off

I also barely have anything plugged in normally other than my PC setup

and that is just me hitting my powerbar

if you had a wall phone charger thing

the little brick

did you set your thermostat low?

I brought that with me

would you leave that in

so yes, I unplugged it

no but like, if you had multiple

do you only have 1?

I would not have multiple plugged in in the first place

yes, I only have one

I only need one

I have one phone

what about the one that came with your last phone

idk, my pile keeps growing

I have no idea where that is, probably somewhere in my family home in kitchener

or the cord was fraying and I threw it out

I forget

I have only ever had two phones, so its not like I have a lot of them

if you had one in your room at home, and one at school would you unplug the wall brick before you left for a month

btw i am only on my 2nd ever cellphone in my life. and i replaced my last one because the battery swelled and popped the back of the phone off. probably wasnt a good sign

i was on like my 3rd phone in high school

not smart

See, I am failing the breakfast hypothetical here, so I will just say, probably not. But the real answer is the one at my home is always at my desk because that is where I usually am, and I do turn the power bar off for that one which is effectively unplugging it

no so, that's the one thing my grandmother would unplug that I funementally didn't understand

i only got my first one when i started taking GED classes, which was around the time i would have been in like, 11th grade i think it was

her list had plenty of stuff I could care less about

I think its more so anything that is actively drawing passive power

so things with lights on them or whatever

her rationale was fire safety