• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I love the typo because it covers so many things at once

      Queue as in they’re lining up to do it; cue, as in that’s their cue to be stupid; and que (spanish for what) as in what the fuck are they thinking?

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                  3 months ago

                  Its actually the “went to church, talented white folk there”, posted by “fren”, somehow they learned random old dude was “88” which has no bearing on the story and isn’t usually something that comes up in short conversations, and the “I was like <common behavior from easily influenced person> before I did these things”

                  It gives recruitment/fishing vibes to me. If 100 people read it and 99 see ADHD and move on, but 1 person asks them how they could also feel good about themselves, boom, one more Nazi recruit. That’s how dog whistles work. You toss an innocuous thing like “88” in your story, it let’s those in the know that you’re part of the team and you’re on the job.

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    3 months ago

    In the good ol’ days when I ran out of battery and every charger had a different stupid little connector, I often put my phone on the window still or heater to get a little bit of juice to do what I needed to do.

    I guess I am a scientist.

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    3 months ago

    Important note near the end of the article - they aren’t saying we should cook batteries really -

    “The team’s hypothesis is that the structural disorder developing inside LIBs may become a “tunable parameter” that, if tweaked using chargers at precise voltages to alter said battery composition, could be used to rejuvenate the batteries in our tech without fires.”

    This is a good old idea that goes back to the days of desulfating lead batteries with powerful shocks of high-amperage current. Might just need a special Healing Charger that applies the right voltage/current to dissolve the bad crystals in lithium-ion systems

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      With electric cars you might not even need a special charger so much as a special charging cycle. Its already the norm for cars to tell the charger what voltage and current they want, and its already the norm for cars to carefully control their battery’s temperature during charging.

      That’s not to say you’d necessarily be able to do this with just a software update, but its not too far off from the current paradigm.

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        Yeah that’s a good point. Ours uses the same refrigerant system as the AC to cool the battery, and the actual “charger” for the battery is inside the car being controlled by its software etc. The cables that plug in on the outside are technically just power wires, with the charging brains inside the car. That would be amazing if they could update the software to rejuvenate the battery once a year or something.

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          it would almost certainly need to be done at a fast charger, not at home unless it could do only a few cells at a time. Remember the golden rule: “Don’t set the house on fire by overloading the wiring”.

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    3 months ago

    so putting batteries in the fridge wasn’t useful after all, we should put them in the oven

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      3 months ago

      so I can now put my spicy pillows in the oven and tell the insurance men the internet told me to?

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      Putting my LG G Flex which had a boot loop problem due to a soldering issue on the battery solved the problem temporarily!

      Edit: oh also that was the freezer

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        I’ve known some old people to put their bootloops in the freezer because they think it won’t go stale as fast.

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      In reality, this doesn’t affect the existing batteries we have, it’s just for future battery technology.