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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 05:41:01 JST clacke

   A lot of phones and laptops can't really run without a battery pack. And you wouldn't want to, because cables are a bit unreliable and you don't want power to blink out, terminate whatever you had running and potentially corrupt a partition just because someone lightly bumped the cable.

   But running a permanently connected device with a four-hour battery full of rare materials and wearing that down for no reason is pretty wasteful.

   Is anyone making capacitor packs for this purpose? With just enough energy store for five minutes of power and a graceful shutdown?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 13:40:58 JST clacke

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     • Leif Lindholm
     @unixsmurf Right, the capacitor buffer could be built in and spare any accumulator you might plug in.
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     Leif Lindholm (unixsmurf@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 13:40:59 JST Leif Lindholm

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     @clacke
     Another question is "why would the device be messing around charging/discharging a battery whilst permanently connected" but somehow manufacturers get away with that.