Comment on Steam Deck gets a Battery Charge Limit control in the latest Beta

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • phobiac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The logic isn’t flawed, your priors are. You’re assuming that people are constantly on a cycle of charging their battery to the limit, running it down low, and then charging it again. If you mostly play docked or with a charger plugged in then capping the battery at around 80% prolongs the battery runtime for when you do turn the limit off and want to use the full battery.

    If you mostly play fully charged and stationary, then lowering the charge limit means you have more future opportunities to experience the fully battery runtime when you disable the setting.

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  • excral@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, I’m not suffering the consequences I’m fearing now. Having 80% capacity is enough to last me through the day, what I’m fearing is when the capacity drops below 60%, 50% or even less which I can greatly delay by only charging to 80%.

    Additionally, I’m not forever stuck at 80%. If I know I will need more capacity, I can always disable the restriction for the next charge.

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  • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But this 80% will last a lot longer.

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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      • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean, 80% corresponding to X mAh battery capacity. It will stay at that value for much longer.

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      • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Consider two decreasing lines, one with a slightly lower slope. Now imagine the steeper line starting higher on this graph, eventually the lines will cross and despite starting lower the shallower line will be higher.

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        … do you know how batteries work? Or how they degrade?

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  • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s less of an issue with devices you use in battery mode all day, but the Deck sits on the docking Station most of the time and constantly getting held at 100%

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Deck automatically stops charging and let’s the battery drain to around 95% when plugged in anyway.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, I was just gonna unplug it at 80 and plug it back it at 40.

    Beforehand I couldn’t just leave it cause it would go to 100%.

    If your referring to always keeping it plugged in, can’t I cap it at 60% then?

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What about only charging to 80% until I actually go on a road trip?

        It’s same with electric cars, there is day to day mode and road trip mode.

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Short term vs long term gains.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think it comes down to driver support. It’s not that the hardware can’t do this, but rather it’s that you need to pass the option to control it all the way up from the lowest levels of the system eventually into user space where you can select an option in settings.

  That, and it’s just not the first priority on devices that are generally low-margin.

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