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It’s not trying to constantly charge though. Look at the power draw of any phone, there’s a cut-off point where the battery management system says “enough is enough”. I recently noticed in own testing that this lies beyond 100% for a few phones that I tried, but it’s very clear when it e.g. drops from drawing 0.2A to 0.03 and it scales with things like turning on the screen or running a game. It isn’t charging then, it’s just driving the device. If the charger isn’t sufficient, it’ll draw from the battery and, when that gets below BMS’ threshold, will charge again. Many modern phones can also be set to 80% to reduce battery stress further. The types of batteries in smartphones cannot safely go without a BMS

One would have to actually do a study to know for sure but it works the same in laptops and there we know people leave them on chargers routinely, sometimes also for the decade that they use the device. My experience with that is that some batteries degrade rapidly, others seem good as the day they were created, seemingly not correlated with how you treated them. But my sample size is too low; of course from science we know that it does matter. Just not so much that it’s a matter of months (much less weeks) before it fails. The odds of it failing in your pocket in the 3 years before are not much lower than it failing in the 3 years subsequently on a charger, especially if you don’t let it get hot (good ventilation)

Why do lucky days come from replies with vowels in them?

Not technically an answer but perhaps the absence is surprising / of interest to someone:

We don’t typically do this in the Netherlands. I find it very strange to call someone something that isn’t their name (or at least a part thereof if the parents chose something unwieldy), especially to the point where a culture develops a set of default secondary names based on their real first name. Mostly obvious ones but sometimes also entirely unguessable. I learned this is a thing in other countries from my German partner

We do have birth names (some biblical crap, like the holy Johannes for someone called Jo) but it’s not like they’d ever introduce themselves to anyone as such (not even when meeting the king). It’s not their name, their parent doesn’t say it when they’ve done something wrong, and I doubt they’d respond to it if it’s not super obvious from other clues that you mean them. It’s just there for ceremonies at church altars and airport terminals

German also has Mustermann (“Muster” meaning template)

We don’t have that in the Netherlands or in English afaik and would use something like Smith, that is Janssen in our case. Of course you could also see something like “Last_name” or “Example” in the place of a last name field, but it doesn’t look like a name the way that yours does

Janssen or Jansen (without that final s) is also the default last name in the Netherlands

In the north you find a lot of de Vries (the… frosty? There’s an origin story involving Napoleon that I don’t know whether it’s correct)

Regarding Peeters, a crush of mine was called Peters, in Dutch Limburg. Besides that I don’t know the name so I’d guess it’s uncommon here

Pronounced “win” with a slight N sound before, for anyone else wondering

Eight-axis Milling Rig?

I think this every time I kill a mosquito or fruit fly but they don’t seem to be getting any faster, smarter, or quieter. Where’s Darwin when you need him to answer some questions?

I migrated to Germany eight years ago. I’m curious if your grandpa would take issue with me as well or if it’s only those with a different skin color…

Haven’t had any issues with migrants here myself, it’s just politics. Same as where I’m from (Netherlands), politicians only talk and some parties need someone to blame. Economic analyses of migration I see are generally positive because it grows the economy and we need the extra hands at current birth rates. Many do (care/construction/ag) jobs that locals don’t want to do at that pay level, keeping things more affordable, bringing in tax money; in the skilled sector also bringing international relations and often expertise… the main challenge currently is building enough housing but that would have been problematic regardless due to demographic shifts and the government selling the houses they financed and then discovering that the new shareholders mostly go for short-term profits and not large forward-thinking investments

Depends what you’re interested in…

Lacking that information, how I went about it:

• advertise that you have Mastodon so people can follow you
• I knew two persons so I followed them and see who they boost and @mention
• I browsed the local and the federated timelines
• for every particularly interesting post or mention (raise the bar as you follow more people), check out the profile that posted it and whether you’re interested in following them
• click on hashtags that sound interesting and repeat the previous step
• look for some common (nick/short)names of your city/area/country as hashtag and check if anyone uses that already. Might be worth following (you can follow hashtags, not just people). I find that it’s relatively low quality, but any high quality local posts are often quite useful, so…
• don’t be afraid to unfollow if a profile turns out to be less interesting than expected!

Not a one-day process of course, but pretty quickly I got my timeline fuller than the amount of time I want to spend browsing microblogs. From there I’ve mostly been looking at profiles that show up via boosts, very rarely looking at the general pool (the server’s timeline) anymore

Once beyond that initial stage, I might recommend having a “list” (the Mastodon feature) where you add people of whom you want to see every post. For me, that’s direct friends, a weekly comic I enjoy, and some people who don’t post much but whose posts are nearly always worth seeing. Iirc the default behavior is that people in lists are hidden from your main timeline but you can disabled that

Tusky is the client I use. The first tab is general timeline, second tab is my “see all posts” list, third is inbox, then a hashtag I follow, then bookmarks, and that’s it. Works really well for me. Hope you find (some of) this setup useful as well!

Wait there’s profile pictures? I just see usernames in the comment threads in Lemmy and that seems fine to me

I had the same issue/concern and so shared the price with someone else. We intended to timeshare but they were kinda done with it after a few days whereas I love it and use it at least weekly since like three years now

The local library has one for loan. I’d recommend getting that before you buy it outright indeed

I measure everything, like

• “is everything in this microwaved meal heated through, no cold spots?” (after stirring)
• “oh it’s freezing out, I’m curious how cold food got that we transported in the trunk of the car while the cabin was warm” (so I go and point it at the trunk area to get an idea of the cold/hot spots, as well as the food of course)
• new phone/laptop: I’m curious how hot it gets to the touch
• The insulation checks that people mention
• instantly see which pieces of laundry are not 100% dry yet. You can feel it individually, but the wife acceptance factor is in getting an instant answer for a whole rack
• Pouring a cold liquid into a hot one (or vice versa) is beautiful to see. Like watching a fire, except it’s at 320x480 (but it’s a new kind of fire! Exciting nerdery!)
• I’ve tried finding animals in the forest but it turns out that branches, leaves, ground, sky etc. all have very different temperatures and you can’t easily make out an animal among all that. Was interesting to try though, I enjoyed myself for a few hours across different visits (“it’s cold out, maybe now animals show up with better contrast? Are the plants keeping warm? Let’s go see!”)
• cat buttholes =). I noticed randomly at some point that this is where they leak the most heat, and figured getting a few baselines while our cat walks by is good to have ahead of the time you want to know if their temperature is elevated
• gimmick to show people who haven’t seen it before. If they’re interested, you get to talk about how it works and what things look interesting
• edit: wait, I remember a legit use case: we used it to find where we can drill. One of these magnetometer devices was going wild and we couldn’t otherwise locate the cable that runs to an outlet. Connected a 1500W space heater for iirc 20 minutes and it was crystal clear! /edit.

Still not sure if this all justifies the price but I own it now and I’m making the fullest use of it and enjoy it :)

They have fur…

Our cat doesn’t come to rooms that are warmer until the one they’re in is about 16°C, so I think they only get chilly at or below that temperature. They’re short haired but the winter coat still looks comfy warm to me, like I’m also fine in bed once my blanket is warmed up

Probably if you have a naked cat it’s different, as well as individual preferences, but they don’t need a warmer climate just because their inner temperature is higher. Our “european shorthair” lives in the same climate as we do

Sorry, also at @MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world, I was mistaken indeed. The option I was thinking of is called “manual download” but, when opening that dialog, the only buttons are cancel and install.

I’m pretty sure I’ve done this though, but probably by pressing install (either there or in the main UI) and looking for the apk in Aurora’s cache folder

“Aurora store” is a client for the Google Play servers that lets you download the apk to a directory

Edit: I seem to be wrong, it gets into a cache directory for installation but you can’t seem to choose where that is

Fwiw I remember trying to get an audio file onto someone else’s tablet that I had borrowed and couldn’t figure out what protocol the thing understands/shares with Linux. Even after putting it on a webserver and downloading with Safari I didn’t find a way of playing it with the iOS music player (iTunes probably? I don’t remember). OP could very well have an Apple device if they can’t figure out how to do a simple file transfer from another machine, I couldn’t figure it out either

idk what beaming is but I made https://dro.pm/ for sending files between any OS combination

Supports command line also in case you’d like to beam from there as well (of course wget to download, but if you curl|head the domain you also get instructions for uploading)

Idk if you’re expecting me to background check your profile now but for English I have no recommendations

What languages do you speak?

I coincidentally heard something about that today. Sadly in German but according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGE8jzGZ7To

80% of people said they would continue working

80% of people thought others would not

We seem to expect worse of others than of ourselves. Even if it turns out to be that 40% ends up stopping to do anything remotely useful, it’s at least worth trying and finding out what works and what doesn’t imo. Having the right to choose how to live your life freely seems like an enormous benefit that a minority needn’t ruin