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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 06:43:09 JST goatsarah

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   • cwicseolfor
   @cwicseolfor Yes. Rechargeable have a lower voltage and some stuff may profoundly dislike that.
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     cwicseolfor (cwicseolfor@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 06:43:10 JST cwicseolfor

     Is there still any use where disposable alkalines batteries are better than rechargeable?

     I bought a pack of rechargeable AAs (Eneloop in the Sanyo days) in 2009 and I've been using them happily ever since, and some AAA (Eneloop post-Panasonic acquisition) sometime after that.

     They take up a lot less space to store as most are in a device at any given time, they're easy to charge. Apparently the ecological costs break even by about fifty charges. Why are disposable batteries still a thing?