• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour ago

    This is like when cars went from oil pressure and temperature gauges to “idiot” lights. One let’s you see trends in situations and be prepared for maintenance, the other tells why your car broke down.

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      Yeah, my car doesn’t have either of those and I was not happy when I realized it.

      “A light will come on if there’s an issue.” 😡

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      7 minutes ago

      All that information is available in the cluster lmfao.

      There’s far more information that needs to be readily apparent to a driver than the oil pressure.

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    I’m gonna make a thread asking, “what is a food you know?” so everyone can reply “homt dog” and I can get lots of notifications

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      It’s actually very easy to have the number off and still get full functionality.

      I just made a 100 page booklet that shows each battery level graphic alongside the percentage, so when I want to check my battery level, I just pull out the book and flip back and forth until I find the right icon, and bam! I know my exact battery level in less than 5 minutes.

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        counterpoint: these numbers are guesswork anyway. why pretend, you just want to know that it’s not red

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        I don’t care until it gets to about quarter full, that’s when I check to see what actual percentage it’s at. I’m rarely on my phone enough to drain the battery on a normal day.

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          Hey get a load of this loser! Interacting with the real world! Ha! Everyone laugh! Hahahaha!

          cries in terminally online

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          Yeah, the only reason I would need the number always visible and not just visible on down-swipe would be if it ever ran out during the day. Probably would be necessary for people who stream videos a lot.

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    2 hours ago

    Lithium ion batteries cannot super accurately report their own charge so the percentage isn’t necessarily digit accurate.

    I am also usually just making sure it’ll get me to a place I can charge it when I actually need to worry about charge. That doesn’t usually require like the difference between say 33% and 26% for me.

    I just need to be able to see if I’ve got like a fifth of battery left or less / more.

    Admitedly also with the ADHD if there’s a percentage I fixate on it for no reason so it’s less annoying for me to have it off.

    Same with the battery level in my e-bike. 👀 I know it’ll get me to work and back as it always does but not constantly fixating on the remaining battery is impossible.

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      You can absolutely accurately calculate the percentage of a lithium battery. I do so every day with solar setup I live on. Even after months floating between 20% and 80% the batteries stop charging at 99.5% and would shut off if I hit 0-1%

      You just need to use a well calibrated shunt.

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    Estimating the state of charge on a lithium battery is extremely complicated and difficult. And they stopped showing the numbers earlier because they didn’t want you to see how inaccurate they were.

    Nowadays, the models are better and more sophisticated, but the tradition continues.

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    I stopped checking how much battery is left like 10 years ago. I charge every night and thats it. If it gets critically low it notifies my another way.