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10 years ago I worked at a company which had a fleet of phones to test mobile browser games we were making and the batteries were in noticeably worse shape afte
by Tade0 2y ago
10 years ago I worked at a company which had a fleet of phones to test mobile browser games we were making and the batteries were in noticeably worse shape after a few months of near constant use.
Nowadays in most phones you can limit charging to e.g. 80%, which is much lighter on the battery.
Additionally, the battery works as a heat sink (or heat store really considering it's just a solid slab of dense material) so expect more throttling when it's not there.
- nine_k 2y agoIf you have an old phone that would otherwise go to garbage, likely its battery is not in a great shape anyway, and server-like loads are mostly incompatible with being battery-powered. I suppose it's going to be permanently attached to a USB power source. Thanks for the heads-up about the thermal inertia of the battery! Maybe a stationary phone in the server role could use a glue-on passive radiator.
- close04 2y agoThe problem isn’t the performance of the battery but the safety. A dead battery for this always-connected use case is probably a non-issue. A swollen battery that could explode or catch fire is definitely an issue. You could take it out but many phones won’t work without a battery so you need to find a way to trick them into thinking one is installed.