Apperently the M2 #apple #silicon is pretty #battery #efficient https://youtube.com/watch?v=P0h8q6D0s74 It's great that there is someone else in the #cpu space, but terrible that it is #apple ...
Very cool #sand #battery #concept ! https://hackaday.com/2022/11/21/making-a..
These " #jbl " #bluetooth #headphones from #china are shite. The #battery now lasts less than 3 hours and they are #broke on the #headband . Seeing they were #fake I tried to return them, but I was asked to #prove they were #fake , as if that's even possible. They lost in the end though, I #refuse to #buy from them again.
The most #beautiful #machine to never exist: https://nitter.1d4.us/pic/orig/media%2FF.. A #ibm #thinkpad #notebook in this #formfactor would have been simply the best thing ever. Imagine also having swappable #bays on it too... This is simply too sexy. I would load the base with #battery and put most the #brains in the top part with small #daughter #boards in the base to extend #io , maybe only down once side to maximize #battery space.
Great, I think we have started having #rolling #blackouts in the #uk ... Guess which #idiot has a #laptop as their #desktop with a bear #dead #battery ?
Looks like #pine 's #pinephone now has a #keyboard https://www.pine64.org/2021/12/31/happy-.. This would now make the #device a #compelling #linuxpda - something I wish I now owned in retrospect given my own #phone #battery #failed and the #pinetab tried to kill itself.
Unfortunately a #water #battery is not nearly good enough for #powering a #home https://hackaday.com/2021/10/08/power-yo.. It's essentially a #mass based battery - in terms of #mass by #volume there are likely more efficient designs. If it also doubled up as a #thermal #mass it might be more interesting...
Apparently changing your old #apple #iphone #region to #france will enable higher #performance https://www.gizchina.com/2021/08/23/old-.. This is because Apple was #fined for not considering *actual* #battery state when #throttling performance and whether the phone is actually plugged in. For some reason they didn't roll out this change to all regions though?
#uber possibly pricing based on #battery level: https://twitter.com/NerdyAndNatural/stat..
I was watching a #video about this earlier, the #tesla big #battery over in #australia #victoria has released the #magicsmoke and gone #thermonuclear https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-e.. So far it appears two of the large batteries have been severely damaged. Bare in mind, it was scheduled to start operating very soon... Looks like those plans are now delayed.
Cool #linux #utility to see the #battery level of a #mouse https://hund.tty1.se/2021/07/21/how-to-s.. I wish it also worked for #bluetooth #headphones - but alas it does not. Still a *very* cool hack.
This would be good #news for #lithium #battery #manufacturing https://interestingengineering.com/lithi.. Apparently it an be extracted from #seawater with some reasonable efficiency.
I'm in the market for a new #laptop - but I now want a #dailydriver that is #upgradeable , #opensource and #repairable ... I've had a look at what's out there and I'm not that impressed. I essentially want an #sbc in a box with a #battery , #display and #keyboard - ideally with a rigid chassis. I've got no idea what to do though...
