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?

  • czardestructo@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Batteries have a logarithmic degradation of capacity, meaning using the quick charge function will cause the capacity to drop about 10-15% really quickly, likely within the first year. So dumping the phone in 3 years is likely right when you hit the shallow part of the curve and the battery stops degrading much.