Potential Issues of Using a USB Powerbank as a Ups (2021)

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  • AlDente-Charge-Limiter

    macOS menubar tool to set Charge Limits and prolong battery lifespan

  • > To treat the cells well requires sacrificing some capacity to reduce the voltage stress on the cells.

    Battery-power devices like smartphones should have a mandatory control of what's the percentage of battery it should be charged up to.

    For Mac there's this nice utility AlDente https://apphousekitchen.com

  • BatteryChargeLimit

  • https://github.com/sriharshaarangi/BatteryChargeLimit seems to work anywhere there's root access (though yes I absolutely agree that it should be a standard part of the OS)

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  • upside

  • Aside from what you think personally of him, it's worth noting esr's attempt to start an open source ups project (upside): https://gitlab.com/esr/upside

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