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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 21:50:03 JST goatsarah

   • Rachel Lawson

   @rachel_norfolk I plug it in and use it to stop the battery going flat.

   If I’m very lucky, it will last 3 months before it starts doing the “bing bing bing” of death.

   At that point, it cannot be salvaged and the only thing is to throw it away and get a new one. Even if you clean the gunk off, there is hardly any copper left underneath and it is in a death spiral.

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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 03:00:10 JST Gen X-Wing

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     • Rachel Lawson

     @goatsarah @rachel_norfolk Could it be climate related? Any other connectors do the same? Only lightning issues I’ve had are bends that crack the cable (which means it’s my wife’s cable. No shade or hate, I’m just unusually careful with stuff). Which is a pretty generic cable issue.

     Must be horribly frustrating to have to switch out cables that often:(

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 03:00:10 JST goatsarah

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     • Gen X-Wing
     • Rachel Lawson

     @breadbin @rachel_norfolk I can’t find any consistent link to climate.

     No other connector does this to me. It’s just lightning cables that provide power, and only lightning. USB C doesn’t do it. The old iPod dock cables didn’t do it. It’s just lightning, and they will always do it.