Draco

I've been calling BS on self-driving cars since I first heard about it. Yes, driving can be easy 99.5% of the time; it's the other 0.5% that cameras and computers will never solve on existing roads with human drivers and pedestrians. 

And "AI" is the next bubble waiting to burst. For important issues involving politics or public policy, we can't even agree on the same set of facts. Google's "artificial intelligence" couldn't even produce a picture of the Founding Fathers without introducing woke BS into the results. 

msuberly said:

PauloSeraa 

Who the fuck wants to only charge their phone to 80%, even when the thing is still operating normally?!?! That is the dumbest thing Apple has ever added. Some self-flagellating nonsense for people who prefer to live like their phone is already 5 years old from day one.

Just use the phone like a normal person for a couple of years, then trade it in for a new one. Never look at nor think about the battery once the entire time.

I do

Me too. I have the 15 Max and I'm usually near a charger, so 80% is fine most of the time. If I'm going on a trip or something, I can always turn this off and charge to 100%. 

zimmermann said:

I made the 80% battery max with Automate and an intelligent plug on my iPhone 14. But I truly don’t understand, as this is a simple software addition, why Apple doesn’t add this to all recent phones. 

Phones past a certain age, I think it was the iPhone 12, have a different gas gauge chip set that may not like never seeing 100% state-of-charge. Many gas gauge chips rely on  seeing 100% to re-calibrate the capacity of the battery. 

Reduction in battery health when charged above 80% is not about heat generated. Charging actually slows down above 80%, so the charger generates less heat as the battery fills up. 

In any LiIon cell there are side reactions that accumulate over time; these side reactions progress more quickly at high states of charge, and at high temperature; that's why staying below 80% prolongs battery life. 

This departure won't have much effect. Key product decisions at Apple are made by large teams of people reviewing reams of data around new technologies being considered for deployment. 

At some point you accumulate so much wealth that it's not worth the daily grind anymore. I suspect that was the case with Tang, who would have to be worth at least $10M if he managed his money to any reasonable extent.