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...or taking away its Viagra?
modified 11-Jul-20 9:43am.
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It's most likely that you're overcharging it.
Same thing with laptop batteries. You're not supposed to leave them connected perpetually to the charger.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I've had laptops plugged in for their entire lifetime. Never had this problem with a laptop battery.
You'd think in this day and age, with all the battery management being added to the hardware, "overcharging" should no longer be an issue.
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You've never had this problem with a laptop battery. I assume you mean a swollen battery.
But do you know for a fact that the battery did not lose capacity? Or suffer other damage?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: You've never had this problem with a laptop battery. I assume you mean a swollen battery.
Correct.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But do you know for a fact that the battery did not lose capacity? Or suffer other damage?
I've never had a laptop battery that got deformed to the point where it no longer fit and had to be replaced. Beyond that - I have laptops that are 10+ years old, why would I even expect them not to have lost capacity, due simply to age?
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dandy72 wrote: I've had laptops plugged in for their entire lifetime. Never had this problem with a laptop battery.
It's happened to me twice with the same laptop (a Dell Latitude). Apparently, according to IT at work, this is a frequent occurrence (when you are managing ~1,000 laptops).
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So in my statistical analysis with a sample of one I've had a failure rate of...100%. Twice. For the same phone.
I've owned/used maybe 10 laptops in my lifetime, total, and not a single one of them ever failed in that way. Granted it's still a tiny sample amount, but those still remain the facts as they are.
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dandy72 wrote: If I'm doing it wrong, I'd love to know what it is.
Have you checked the battery's gender?
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Do any of you subscribe to office 365, and if so, do you find it's actually good value for money? Yes I know it comes with a terabyte of cloud storage, but I'm wondering if anyone actually uses Office 365 or uses altenatives like Libre/Open Office and some other cloud storage solution. Thoughts?
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Please don't repost if the first doesn't appear - I deleted the spare for you once I let them through moderation.
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Thank you. I had realised I'd posted it twice.
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I don't do subscription software.
Ever.
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Why not?
You probably have a phone, television and internet subscription and you wouldn't think twice about it.
What makes software that much different?
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I don't because there's typically very little value to it.
I bought FL Studio - lifetime free updates. That is the best case scenario
Standard scenario - pay money for a solid version, pay if you need to upgrade
Almost Worst case scenario - be forced to pay periodically - mainly because the company has to keep updating their software to fix security holes they introduced.
Worst case scenario: It's pay-to-play and only available online
Real programmers use butterflies
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That was before the cloud-era.
I love having some space in the cloud for my files and applications, so I can work from any computer, anywhere.
For me, that's a lot of added value that I gladly pay for.
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why don't you just use oneDrive? isn't 1TB free?
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I use OneDrive. 5GB free, 1TB for a subscription
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay for OneDrive rather than office?
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Because I also need Word and Excel and, later, Exchange.
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So isn't that the real reason you have Office?
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I never said it wasn't
I have an O365 subscription that gives me access to extra cloud storage and the web apps of Excel, Word, etc. as well as the local apps.
All I said is that it's the extra storage and web apps that you pay for periodically.
And I use them all.
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I was teasing.
TBH though, I'm glad I don't need that stuff anymore. If a different company made visual studio i might not even run microsoft stuff at all.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I was teasing. Oh, you!
honey the codewitch wrote: If a different company made visual studio I'm surprised and disappointed you don't code using Notepad(++) and then use your own compiler to compile that mess you call if-statements
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In my new code I've moved away from if statements altogether. Branching in code is so five minutes ago.
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Looking forward to your new article, if-less programming
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