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Re:Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%? by rexf on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:37PM (#9488522)
I agree with you. Instead of optimizing for battery life by constantly checking & adjusting my charging, I'd rather live my life focusing on other things. What I do is super simple: plug it in whenever possible.
Re:Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%? by hsitz on Monday May 04, 2015 @04:43PM (#9489049)
Same here. I have no reason to dispute the expert who says Lithium-ion batteries "don't love 100%". Fine, but they don't seem to dislike it too much, either. So far I haven't had any batteries that didn't perform well when they were mostly plugged in, occasionally discharged in mobile use.

I see some similarities to, e.g., medical pronouncements that some particular food increases risk of cancer. It's easy to get alarmed, but there's a big difference between it increasing my likelihood of getting cancer by 0.05% and making cancer, say, (just to illustrate the point) 100 times more likely. The former I would likely ignore and the latter would probably make me give up the food instantly.

Re:Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%? by moopling on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @05:55AM (#9491678)
I get what you're trying to say, but there's an interesting point to be made here about absolute vs relative risk: imagine for instance your absolute chance of getting cancer was less than 0.0005%
Re:Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%? by pareidolia on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @12:21PM (#9493328)