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Becoming a spicy pillow is the inevitable fate of almost all small lithium electronics batteries. Keeping them in the 60-80% range will slightly help extend life, but that's about it, unfortunately.



I've been using "al dente" on my new laptop to keep the battery charge maxed out at 80% and hopefully extend the life of my battery.


For anyone who's interested, it's written as AlDente, one word:

Free version: https://github.com/davidwernhart/AlDente-Charge-Limiter

Pro version: https://apphousekitchen.com/


If you have root, that's easy to do on Android as well. Honestly, it's one of the like three things that I root for these days


My Samsung has this option, it's called Protect Battery, but I still need to turn it off to get through flights and other fun events.


Thank you. I've never heard of this option, I just enabled it.


Thanks, didn't realize I could do that


> spicy pillow

British English speaker here. I've not come across that expression before. The "pillow" part seems obvious, but not "spicy". What am I missing?


https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/


Thanks. I suspect my brain is just too old to ever grok meme formation.


Battery fires are a genuine danger if a lithium ion battery at a high state of charge suffers physical damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUkKi7cfK4#t=2m36s




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