Hardware on WhyNotHugohttps://whynothugo.nl/tags/hardware/Recent content in Hardware on WhyNotHugoHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 24 Nov 2023 14:57:36 +0800Setting a battery charge thresholdhttps://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/11/24/setting-a-battery-charge-threshold/Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:46:47 +0800https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/11/24/setting-a-battery-charge-threshold/Modern batteries degrade faster if continuously charged to 100%. Some vendors provide software implementations to avoid continuously feeding the battery when full to avoid overloading it. Usually this is tricky, since they have to invent some kind of mechanism to determine whether the user wants the battery fully charged or not. In the case of my laptop, the grand majority of my usages happens while plugged into a power source. Continuously charging the battery in this state merely serves to reduce its battery life and keep it warm, neither of which is desirable.