The person I responded to only has one device. But even if there were multiple devices, you could just have a smart switch per device.

The fire hazard issue is that holding the battery at 100% increases the internal chemical stress on the battery, and increases the risk of thermal runaway. So keeping it well below that will definitely have significant benefit. Ideally, trickle charging it at around 50% would be best for almost eliminating further strain. (But you’ll likely need to charge it from 20-80% occasionally to help the battery management system keep calibrated.)

And things can be done even smarter. Like only charge the battery at the coldest part of the day, typically early morning to reduce heat stress. Or throttle the device if it’s temperature reaches a threshold. Etc.

Yes, if you can remove the battery, that’s helpful. But keep in mind you lose the benefit of battery backup during mains failure.

Also, mobile phone fires get a lot of media attention because “drama,” but they’re not the hazard everyone thinks they are. You’re far more likely to have a house fire from rodents chewing into electrical cables, clothes dryer lint catching fire, or anything with a heating component. Ebikes and escooters are far more likely to catch fire than phones.

The point is if you’re not emptying your dryer lint filter every use; if you’re not getting home pest inspections every six months and putting down rodent traps or baits; if you’re not getting your heating-element devices professionally checked regularly; if you’re not storing your ebike well away from flammables; etc., then worrying about phone battery fires is ridiculously out of proportion.

I’ve got a colleague who says she’ll never buy an electric car because of the fire risk. But then she drives around in her gas car which is 8,000%+ more likely to catch fire.

If you’re still paranoid, keep the device in a non-combustable container away from flammables, and near enough to a smoke detector. It’s easy to setup something that if the phone catches fire it’ll just burn itself out.

At all? What do you believe the fire hazard is then?

Use a smart power switch.

Battery level drops below say 20% - turn switch on and start charging.

Battery level goes above 80% - turn switch off.

For Android, you could use something like the Tasker app to do the monitoring and switching.

You’re partially right. Trump originally wanted to ban TikTok because “China.”

However, the platform’s influence on younger voters supposedly helped him to win the election, so he now favors it.

No surprise that Trump’s personal needs are far more important than real US security.

CrowdTangle, MetaSpark, Moves, Onavo, Bump, Parse, etc

At the risk of getting political, you should expect that to go up under Trump. The tariff war with China during his first term kept panel prices high, and it’s going to be worse this time. And that’s not his only policy that will affect pricing.

… there are somethings that are often left out of the pricing

Another example that gets skimmed over or ignored is the massive cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant. It typically ranges from $280 million to $2 billion, depending on the technology used. More complex plants can be up to $4 billion. And the process can take 15 to 30 years to complete.

Yeah great storage price at ~$4 / TB / month. But be aware that egress is $7 / TB.

If someone is mostly just backing up, that’s probably not an issue… well, at least until you have to do a big restore, or you do large recovery testing, or even just backup validations, etc.

If someone is doing lots of reading of their cloud data, e.g. streaming, then there are overall cheaper options than Storj.

One other thing I liked about Storj is that they split each file up geographically. So there’s a little extra level of privacy and security.

Sure, anyone can sign with a key. Having THE key is the extraordinary part.

Yes, and their shorthand versions, like writing 9/4, have the same problem of being ambiguous.

You keep missing the point and moving the goal posts, so I’ll just politely exit here and wish you well. Peace.

Yes and YYYY-MM-DD can potentially be interpreted as YYYY-DD-MM. So that is an zero argument.

No country uses “year day month” ordered dates as standard. "Month day year, " on the other hand, has huge use. It’s the conventions that cause the potential for ambiguity and confusion.

That is great for your team, but I don’t think that your team has a size large enough to have any kind of statistically relevance at all. So it is a great example for a specific use case but not an argument for general use at all.

Entire countries, like China, Japan, Korea, etc., use YYYY-MM-DD as their date standard already.

My point was that once you adjust, it actually isn’t painful to use as it first appears it could be, and has great advantages. I didn’t say there wasn’t an adjustment hurdle that many people would bawk at.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country

DDMMYY is perfect for daily usage.

Except that DDMMYY has the huge ambiguity issue of people potentially interpreting it as MMDDYY. And it’s not straight sortable.

My team switched to using YYYY-MM-DD in all our inner communication and documents. The “daily date use” is not the issue you think it is.

Huh? I run SmartTube beta on my phone. I don’t recall having to do anything “magic” to get it working.

We must read very different sources. For example, I’ve seen plenty of articles and videos just this week for Samsung’s 1,000 km EV battery with its 20 year life span, and 9-minute charging. If you consider those combined features incremental, then I can see why you’re frustrated. It’s already in production, and has been delivered to "customers. Samsung are even gearing up for out-sourced mass manufacturing. That’s well beyond some theoretical lab experiment that has no chance of seeing the light of day.

I don’t disagree with you about the 99% over-hype being a PITA. But to adamantly state you’re seeing nothing reported on, while admitting you “could’ve just missed them” doesn’t sound convincing. Besides, it only takes a single article for you to be wrong about it being “never.”

I have never said or intended to imply that there were no advances made in the last 20 or 30 years.

This would be great news if it was commercialy viable, but it isn’t. It NEVER is.

That’s pretty definite by any measure.

But I get it. 99% of the announcements go nowhere. And it’s worse if an announcement is just hype or hyperbole. However, in science we have to do the 99% to find the 1% of true advancements.

So of if your point is just that you don’t like the hyperbole, then using hyperbole yourself is not doing yourself any favour. Of course people are going to be more measured and realistic in reply to your blatant over-statements and denials.