[leipie]

The article's advice isn't the best. It's better to not cycle your battery whenever possible. Set your battery up to only charge when bellow a certain threshold (I do 70%) lower than the max charge (I have it set to 80%). This optimises for not over straining the battery (by not going to 100%) and it reducing cycles to a minimum for my everyday use only travelling between (desk) locations. I set this up through the power manager of KDE, without much effort. I expect this to be available to most Linux distributions and moderately modern laptops. I think I could also set this up on Mac OS when I was using that in the recent past (and I think it comes with something similar out of the box, but less conservative).

[bryanlarsen]

Your advice is good but your reasoning is misleading. Smaller more frequent charges are easier on a battery than less frequent larger charges of the same magnitude. Better to go from 70% to 80% five times than to go from 30% to 80% once. That's true with thermal control like most car batteries, and even more without thermal control, like laptops.

[xela79]

^this guy batteries.

but seriously, when they announced EV with lithium batteries, all I could think of was the baby sitting for batteries. Look at all the intelligence that goes into those EV car setups.