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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 19:13:54 JST Aral Balkan

   Apparently Apple’s all-day battery life becomes all-night battery life if you leave your laptop attached to a USB hub without plugging it in.

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     Daniel Demmel (daaain@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 21:00:52 JST Daniel Demmel

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     @aral somewhat relatedly I low key hate that closing the laptop keeps a bunch of things going like wifi and bluetooth and I couldn't find how to disable that. I guess powering the USB port can be useful if you want to use the (closed) laptop as a very expensive power bank for your phone? Wouldn't Mac OS know if there's something charging from the USB hub or if it's safe to suspend its power draw though?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 21:00:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Daniel Demmel

     @daaain Oh, no, that facepalm was for myself. It makes perfect sense for the laptop to power things that are plugged in regardless and I do love that everything just always works. I just previously had power going in through the same dongle via USB-C and now it’s via the MagSafe so I forgot to plug it in :)