Unplug Your Laptop Now, or It Will Stay Plugged in Forever

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Post by xmjw » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 1:54 PM UTC

Unplug Your Laptop Now, or It Will Stay Plugged in Forever
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Re: Unplug Your Laptop Now, or It Will Stay Plugged in Forever

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Post by h2odragon » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 2:08 PM UTC

On the other hand, tethering your phone to a particular table in your house might be an advantageous lifestyle choice. "Phones everywhere" is a technical advance, but is it an advantage for your life?

We aint obligated to bite every apple offered us.

Re: Unplug Your Laptop Now, or It Will Stay Plugged in Forever

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Post by joezydeco » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 2:31 PM UTC

Superb. Now let's see modern laptops actually obey the "sleep" mode when the lid is shut.

How many of you have pulled laptops out of your bag to find it's been on for hours and its white hot?

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Post by mattl » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 2:33 PM UTC

My MacBook Pro M1 Pro refuses to charge when plugged in unless it needs to. Apple seemed to fix this with their newer machines.

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Post by RGamma » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 2:35 PM UTC

I just set it to charge to 70%, unless manually overridden.