acc VS Killed by Google

acc wiki contains a warning for Xiaomi device users regarding faulty PMICs, hinting the usage of acc could brick your phone.

install acc and optionally the app for it.

On Android, I use a terminal script called Advanced Charging Controller (ACC) to automate keeping the battery under 80% and some other battery saving tweaks. It allows you to charge to any value (like 80%), then stop charging until it discharges to another set value, which triggers it to start charging again. That was you can keep it between something like 70% and 80% while you leave it charging over night. It also has settings to keep the batter under a specified temperature and trigger cool-down intervals if it gets to a particular temperature. It can use a job scheduler to switch between different profiles for different days, or events. There are also some frontend apps, which let the user control the script with a more friendly GUI ("AccA" or "ACC Settings").

Link to the script: https://github.com/VR-25/acc

I this magisk module, but it needs root: https://github.com/VR-25/acc

My Nexus 5X is still working, but I use it as a "security camera". It runs a (now outdated) build of LineageOS and is rooted so I can limit CPU speeds (because of the heat), limit charging to 50% (Advanced Charging Controller), and use tasker to auto fix some issues (eg: wifi going down, reboot every X days, etc).

I am considering installing ACC, but apparently there are some issues/bugs with Xiaomi phones (XDA post, warning).

Yes, the Advanced Charging Controller: https://github.com/VR-25/acc

About the 80% battery: Using Magisk, there's the "Advanced Charging Controller" module. Read the GitHub (under Terminal Commands, near the bottom) for how to modify (you'll need Termux to get into your phone's guts about that). I want to say my line in Termux was "acc -e 80" (without quotation marks), but it was long ago and I've forgotten. I also remember it didn't quite "take" until the third try (the phone kept charging to 100% when I needed to recharge). So, it was about a week before that worked, okay? On a good note, it's worked ever since. There's an F-Droid program that was supposed to do the same thing, but it never worked for me. Of course, both of those require rooting.

I was already starting to feel a little cornered in the whole Google ecosystem and a bit limited with stuff like backups, vendor lock in, etc. (and you always have the obvious hanging over your head) and ultimately, I think I just find the mental model of a SQL database more intuitive compared to a NoSQL database. So I thought to myself; "the longer I leave it, the harder it'll be to make the switch".

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!

And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.

Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com

They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.

And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.

The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.

Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.

https://killedbygoogle.com

The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.

To me Gemini is just sort of generic and uninteresting. There has to be hundreds or thousands of products and companies based on the name "Gemini" - "Bard" was at least interesting, different and distinct.

I've no idea about the quality of the product itself, I have never had a reason to use it. It's long past cliché now but I wouldn't get too attached to a Google product that is definitely costing a lot of money but which has no clear pathway to turning a profit. I think they will keep it ticking over until the hype train moves on from Chatbots/LLMs, and then it'll join the Google Graveyard @ https://killedbygoogle.com

We're not talking about reliability, we're talking about Google's penchant for killing established products that people use. https://killedbygoogle.com