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>3. I swear to god if I see anything mentioning a battery on a desktop machine with no battery...

• jrockway 10y ago
  There's no way to know whether or not it has a battery. Maybe it's on a UPS, for example. All I know is that my desktop runs at about 70W idle vs. 450W fully-loaded. Unnecessary use of the CPU wastes money regardless of whether or not you're using that money to charge a battery.
  • jlgaddis 10y ago
    Sites can get your battery level from the browser. IIRC, most of the browsers are going to do away with this functionality soon, however.
• cbhl 10y ago
  Even on a desktop machine, you don't want tabs spinning in the background (using electricity) if you don't need the work being done. That's bad for your wallet and bad for the environment.