I am charging my laptop with one of the “quick charging” phone chargers right now, currently it says 5 hours until full charge. Does this wear out the battery faster or something? Or does it make no difference apart from taking a little bit longer?

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It was better for NiCad batteries to drain them completely, but now that everything is Lithium, there’s no need to drain them.

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      4 days ago

      You think that, but every iPhone and Android phone says otherwise that has a lithium ion battery. It’s built in their OS as a feature to ensure longer battery duration long term. Unless Apple, Samsung, Google are all doing it for a myth… I have my doubts. They essentially set it to go to 80% then slow charge to 100 the last bit before you wake so it won’t sit trying to restart charging from 99% to 100% for hours.

      (And yes it is orchestrated around your alarm going off time)