• @[email protected]
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    642 months ago

    Battery tech is constantly having huge breakthroughs. They are just come in small steps.

    I mean a smart phone is literally a battery powered computer. It’s absolutely astounding compared to what we had 10/20 years ago.

    • @HerrBeter
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      102 months ago

      Only thing I’m upset with is that we get more battery capacity, but not longer battery time. I want to clock my phone down to save power, but that’s not allowed.

      • @[email protected]
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        212 months ago

        Most phones have some sort of “Ultra power saving” mode that gives a lot of battery life.

        • @HerrBeter
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          22 months ago

          I always use the power saving mode, however my experience is that the battery time is almost the same irregardless of battery capacity (comparing arbitrarily över the years)

      • @Nycto
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        82 months ago

        It’s absolutely allowed.

        It’s not as good as previous versions but I am running stock android and I have wifi power saving and phone (background) power saving modes available. I just checked and the estimate of time until zero percent battery goes from 22 hours to 28 hours with the node that limits backup processes, and that is with 59% on the battery.

        There was a power save mode on my old phone that made everything grey screen and stuff that was way better. I think I enabled it for a camping trip once and used like 20% battery in 3 days.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        Yeah the more power phones have available the more manufacturers use.

        It’s why I miss replaceable batteries.

        • @Freefall
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          42 months ago

          That made me think of the fairly low res picture of the menu screen from Mario Bros on the NES with the caption "this one image takes up more memory than the entirety of the Mario Bros game code.

          Good lord…I remember getting a 1GB HDD and thinking “welp, never gonna use that up” then a few years later installing Diablo2 and seeing it was 1.1gb…

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      Battery tech is constantly having huge breakthroughs. They are just come in small steps.

      My guy, those are opposite things…

      • @[email protected]
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        122 months ago

        Not really. They have massive breakthroughs that increase capacity and charging hugely.

        People just seem to expect some world changing development constantly.

      • @Resonosity
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        01 month ago

        Depends on how you define “constant”. Battery prices have been falling year over year, no thanks to technological improvements.

        If we’re referring explicitly to Academia and R&D, then OP is correct. You’re main point is that these huge breakthroughs haven’t affected the market, but OP isn’t arguing that.

        You’re both talking past each other.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 month ago

          Depends on how you define “constant”.

          No it doesn’t? Because there have been none. There have been steady and iterative advancements.

          OP is correct

          When was OP involved in this conversation?

          • @Resonosity
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            11 month ago

            There have been steady and iterative advancements.

            Steady imo is a synonym for constant, and revolutionary breakthroughs can be subjective if referring to industry or academia.

            When was OP involved in this conversation?

            Apologies. I sometimes refer to an OP as the Original Poster of a thread in a given post, but perhaps a better use of language would be OC for Original Commentator.