In the phone world, the jump in capacity that modern phones have from my 4370mAh battery in my A71 is negligible. They haven't increased power density much because that way leads to fires and lawsuits when users bend or otherwise damage their ridiculously fragile phones
My point was, if modern phones had the physical space that my phone + case has, they could have a bigger battery, and that bigger battery would then power all the hungry, hungry electronics.
Yeah , it's really a little strange in OPs case, I can't really recall changing a CMOS battery in ages, like decades of computer use.
Conclusion: just replace the CMOS battery on a yearly basis during planned system downtime.
That is one slick looking rocket engine.
I had a full run of vaccinations and got COVID about 6 months later. Nothing serious, in bed for a few days, cold and flu tablets kept everything under control, a perfect case of the effectiveness of the vaccines in taking the edge off.
But for about two weeks after "recovery" I was constantly forgetting keys, or my wallet. Drove halfway to the airport for a week away for work one morning and went, "oh shit, where's my wallet?" and I'd placed it on a bench behind my car when I put my suitcase in the back and didn't pick it up again. I'm 50 years old, I can count on one hand the number of times I'd forgotten my wallet before that.
That brain fog eased off after that but I wonder sometimes if there are still long term effects that I'm not aware of.
Yeah if you've got home charging it's not a real issue. We use 240v here in Aus so you can pull quite a bit out of domestic outlets before having to get serious and generally overnight charging to top up the day's commute would be fine.
So it wouldn't be a fast charger on every street, and you could always enforce limits by time of use pricing to put a dampener on peak loads.
I just wonder if utility planners might get caught with their pants down on this one. Like, could you say 5 years ago chargers might run to 800kW?
Yeah, just the random added load equivalent to 80-100 houses per car, any time between 5am and 9pm would be enough to send local suburban grids into a spin, especially in summer evenings when there's peak loading already underway. A lot of infrastructure would need to be beefed up to make it reliable.
*Inspects saucepan*
It does? Wow this technology stuff is more insidious than I thought.
Fucking hell, imagine the requirement of a couple of megawatt substation for fast charging, urban power planners must be shitting themselves.
Similar cases happened in Australia leading to government intervention.
There are ways of making it safe, but those ways cost time and money.
Companies (and the individuals who work for them, this guy is not a complete innocent here) have shown time and again that "guidelines" are simply ignored and regulations and fines - or outright bans - are the only way to deal with this shit.
All workers see is that today they have cut and installed 15 countertops in this new apartment block. The more they do in a day, the more money both they and the company get, and that's a powerful motivation for all parties to turn a blind eye to safety issues.
It was a mouse driver in a windows XP VM. Really saves on development costs that way.
This is the hard part. Modern techniques can detect just about anything in anything, down to parts per billion or less.
So we all have measurable quantities of PFAS , radioactive materials, arsenic, plastics, endocrine disrupters and so on and so forth, but there are very few actual hard numbers as to what levels are distinctly harmful and what levels are just "something else will kill you long before this does".