Again, this is down to the sensitivity of lithium batteries. If the charge of the battery falls below the minimum safe level, the device will charge it before allowing you to take power. There are a couple of reasons –…
Let's be honest, those 40W spikes are due to video playback and/or other GPU bound tasks. Sorry, wait for the battery on those. But booting the OS should be unconditionally permissible on AC power. So design the OS…
If it's plugged in, it can boot. Anything else is a malignant abomination masquerading as design. No exceptions.
Gee, maybe it's because you have a million tabs open, and all of them are websites with shitty, wasteful javascript begging the CPU for useless operations to update every single tracking pixel and cookie, with…
You are not alone. It's just that Hacker News suffers from some extremely myopic forum sliding and public relations tactics, as well as groupthink among industry insiders who have rationalized perfectly sensible reasons…
I'd rather see a hard crash and know for sure that the battery is too empty to perform work. Stupid battery warning meters are a lie, and a waste of valuable power. If you have enough power to show me that you don't…
Again, this is down to the sensitivity of lithium batteries. If the charge of the battery falls below the minimum safe level, the device will charge it before allowing you to take power. There are a couple of reasons –…
Let's be honest, those 40W spikes are due to video playback and/or other GPU bound tasks. Sorry, wait for the battery on those. But booting the OS should be unconditionally permissible on AC power. So design the OS…
If it's plugged in, it can boot. Anything else is a malignant abomination masquerading as design. No exceptions.
Gee, maybe it's because you have a million tabs open, and all of them are websites with shitty, wasteful javascript begging the CPU for useless operations to update every single tracking pixel and cookie, with…
You are not alone. It's just that Hacker News suffers from some extremely myopic forum sliding and public relations tactics, as well as groupthink among industry insiders who have rationalized perfectly sensible reasons…
I'd rather see a hard crash and know for sure that the battery is too empty to perform work. Stupid battery warning meters are a lie, and a waste of valuable power. If you have enough power to show me that you don't…