It is way too much tension over way too short of a time span.

Except charging speed of a phone depends on the capability of the battery used for that phone, and new batteries that are made for it, can handle way faster charging than older batteries.

My phone adaptive charge gets to 80% and stays there without charging until 20 minutes before my alarm

Oh my god, that is the absolute worst. So the day you are extra busy and have to get up a little earlier than usual, and depend more on your phone than normal, it’s only charged to 80%! That’s exactly the kind of unintelligent solutions I hate. They always fuck up when it’s most inconvenient.

the battery stops charging at 100%, waits to drop to 95% then goes back again to full in a cycle.

So repeated charging from 95% to 100% which is clearly not good for the battery.

the guidelines that NIST, Microsoft, GCHQ and a few other institutions now recommend for password security

Because they are morons that don’t understand entropy.
Requiring at least 1 number increases entropy less than simply allowing the use of numbers, and then recommending it.
But most password queries are lousy at describing what’s allowed when creating it, and they generally don’t describe it at all when you enter it for access.
The second part can be crucial for remembering exactly how the password was created, because what is now required, used to often not even be possible to use!

Trickle charging does not harm batteries. On the contrary, the slower you charge a battery the safer it is.

Charging when the battery full or very close to it is absolutely harmful, and that’s what trickle charging does. It especially harmful if the charger isn’t 100% accurate, and especially for Lithium batteries.
Apparently some people also use the term for just slow charging in general, but this is obviously what I meant in this context.
Trickle charging compensates for self discharge and the idle power used, so even when accurate, to keep charging a little bit to maintain a 99%-100% charge is definitely harmful.
It’s way better to only charge to 80% for instance. Which is the reason all fast charging times for cars a measured up to 80%.

Trickle charging is damaging if for instance you charge your phone when you go to bed and don’t disconnect the charger until morning, that means many hours of trickle charging at near full capacity.

Because my phone charges fast, it never trickle charges for long at near 100%.

Your password MUST contain big and small letters, and contain at least 1 number character and 1 spacial character, it MUST be 8 characters long, and it MUST be typed on a German Cherry keyboard between 8-9 PM, using ONLY 1 finger while blindfolded and listening to ABBA music. BUT NO SPACES ALLOWED!!!
This is because of something called entropy we never even read about so we have zero understanding of it. Of course combined with lousy programming, so safety is all on you.

Making all these possibilities OPTIONAL would actually make for safer passwords (higher entropy), as would using multiple words separated by spaces. The only meaningful way to accept a password would be to test it against common bad passwords, and test the entropy to determine acceptable levels. There is no good reason a password couldn’t be 10 words and at least 127 characters. There is no way that should stress a properly designed modern system.

Clinton and Obama actually balanced the budget, what Trump is doing is the exact opposite.
Trump is promising massive tax cuts, and has made bills to achieve that.
Clearly Trump is off the rails irresponsible. So why would you want to be fair to Trump?
Democrats have demonstrated that the debt CAN be controlled. Republicans just refuse to do so, but always make it worse.
Now Trump is a completely new level of unhinged. And the world is reacting accordingly.

I’m curious what car charges at 1.3MW

BYD has the entire 1MW system ready in cars you can buy today, with charging stations for it being rolled out in China.
CATL has a battery capable of 1.3MW, but it is AFAIK not available in any cars yet.
Current high end Chinese cars on the market in EU are about 400 kW charging.

BYD Charges at 1MW, although they will probably not be available in America due to protectionism.
1.3 MW is the newest CATL Battery, which for American manufacturers were supposed to work with, but may be impossible now too due to protectionist tariffs.

https://insideevs.com/news/756144/byd-han-l-megawatt-charging/

BYD is launching two EVs that boast “Megawatt” charging capability, capable adding about 250 miles of range in just 5 minutes.

https://www.perplexity.ai/discover/top/catl-unveils-battery-charging-K2CWUCOTQuuj6G_DkbaTjw

peak charging rate approaching 12C with maximum charging power exceeding 1.3 megawatts

But even a pretty average 80-85kWh car today can charge 10-80% in about 20 minutes. More expensive cars do it in 15 minutes.

Well basically they are saying it’s better for the poor to be sick and die, and to destroy the environment, than for the rich to pay their fair taxes, although they are already lower than for average people.

I’m pretty sure taking out the battery of a feature phone would turn it off instantly.

If they can charge a car in 5 minutes using 1.3 MW charging, why wouldn’t 120 Watt be fine for charging your phone in 20? Also the charging is protecting the battery by reducing speed as it approaches 100%. The lifespan seems fine, I’m not detecting any deterioration. By today’s standards it’s not even that fast. And it is very convenient to be able to top it off quickly. That way I also don’t have to leave it charging overnight, I can do it while I make coffee and eat my breakfast. That way I minimize trickle charging which can also harm the battery.

The battery has to be made for fast charging, and Samsung is apparently way behind on that.

that’s already faster than what I’m comfortable with.

Then why did you buy a Samsung?

I read somewhere about a phone that had 2 batteries, that way you could swap batteries with the phone remained turned on during the process!

Funny they are stuck at 45 Watt, when other phones have been charging at 120 Watt for years.
My 2 year old midrange Xiaomi charges at 120 Watt! And the charger was included too! 😋

You are absolutely right, there is so much USA could do to improve society.
But the only thing that really counts for half the population, is to ease taxes on the 1%.
IDK why, but that’s apparently a very popular thing for both average and poor people in USA?

I used to have hope for USA, thinking they always turn in the right direction eventually, but since George W Bush was elected for a 2nd term, that hope has been chipped away. Obama did provide a glimmer of hope, but followed by horrible to mediocre to horrible again, so shortly after Bush. That’s a very bad average, and the tendency has been tracking towards worse for a long time now. Hopefully USA is at the bottom right now, but my hopes for that are near zero.

Probably because total amount of CO2 is what matters

Although that’s true it’s still a BULLSHIT argument.
The a target is better measured as a global average per capita, and then the countries can be compared on how close they are to that average.
That would CLEARLY show that Americans are behaving like pigs regarding CO". While both EU and China are way ahead of USA.
The above graph is worthless and a very misleading representation of reality.

Yea tbh. I’m in agreement as someone from the US.

I’ve been arguing this point for more than 20 years now, but the world is apparently still not serious enough to draw the necessary consequences.

Fuck that graph! Make it per capita, why compare 300 million Americans directly to 1.3 BILLION Chinese?
Same with EU, EU is also way more people than USA, yet we pollute less.
We need CO2 Tariffs on USA NOW!!!

Americans claiming it doesn’t help for them to reduce CO2 because of China are disgusting!
USA abandoning the Paris agreement is disgusting!
The richest country in the world refusing to do their part is disgusting!

Victory for Putin, the whole point was to make Trump step down on the threats of sanctions against Russia, and it worked.
Maybe it’s time we (EU) tell Trump that if he isn’t with us he is against us, just like Bush did to us regarding Iraq, despite what he wanted was for us to support USA based on false intelligence!!

Obviously and also pickuptruck, I didn’t think it was necessary to repeat that.

Meanwhile China still works on improving infrastructure and education.

Insane it’s still the 2nd most sold in USA, when the Heil gestures were January 20th.
I bet many Americans don’t even care about it, the failing sales are as much a result of how flawed Tesla cars are, both by design and in manufacturing.

Of course we don’t have the stupid Cybertruck in Europe, but here Tesla sales are down 50% compared to last year. While USA only has managed a measly 13%!

Not many in USA are willing to do a lot to protect democracy?! 🙄

Yes yes, but in their defense Israel is a democracy, and Gaza is inhabited mostly by Muslims. So it’s all good.
/s

Doesn’t make much difference for Texans, because their brains are fried already, and their only response is: “Global warming is a hoax.” Which they repeat as maybe a mantra. Hard to tell by now whether it may be some sort of prayer?