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i will link you things when they get posted! we’re Transitioning Electronics this week, which is its own kind of hell. but yes very same about having things charged - SO likes to play chicken with his own battery life, and i get so stressed on his phone’s behalf
My dude thinks nothing of sitting next to the charger, not plugged in, while his battery life goes down below 20%. This is a little worrying to me on its own merits, but where it becomes A Problem, is when he’s sitting next to the charger so I assume he’s using it, and my battery life dips below an acceptable percentage for me, so I realize he’s not using it and plug in, and he goes, “Oh, I need that, mine’s about to die.”
(Some people want to tell you that if you don’t run rechargeable batteries down all the way and recharge them regularly you’re going to shorten their life. I am here to tell you this is simply not true; it applied to old nickel-cadmium batteries but we’ve been on lithium and nickel-metal hydride for like a decade or two now, so that’s squarely fallen into irrelevance. Also my laptop is older than dude’s and I very rarely run it down, and my battery life is fine; his is now dead and can’t run without being plugged in, which is A Crisis because we share power adapters. He had to bring home his one from work. The rule with lithiums is that you must never run them dead and leave them dead. But the other rule is that sometimes you just get a bad one, and it doesn’t do this until the warranty expires.)
Or, we’re out somewhere, and since he doesn’t, I plug my phone into the charger so I can play music on it without worrying, and then we get where we’re going and he goes to look up directions and says, “Oh, my phone’s dead,” and i’m like, bitch, I’ve been at 95% this whole time and also the music’s on your phone too, there was no reason for this to be an emergency.
He doesn’t see it as an emergency but sometimes it’s hard for me to be the one who has to look up directions and read them off coherently and not get distracted switching between windows on my phone. He has no issues with this, and I don’t think he really understands that I do– but I also think he just somehow doesn’t constantly know how charged his phone is??? I didn’t know it was possible to not have any idea. I mean, sometimes it changes and you lose track but I just– am always watching? if I’m using it? I let it get down to 30% without worrying yesterday because I knew I was going to come and plug it in tonight. Here I sit, woken up by the cold at 4:30, blithely using my laptop with a light on like some sort of civilized person, cuddling the charger because it’s warm and I feel much better now. It’s a miracle of technology!
i will link you things when they get posted! we’re Transitioning Electronics this week, which is its own kind of hell. but yes very same about having things charged - SO likes to play chicken with his own battery life, and i get so stressed on his phone’s behalf
My dude thinks nothing of sitting next to the charger, not plugged in, while his battery life goes down below 20%. This is a little worrying to me on its own merits, but where it becomes A Problem, is when he’s sitting next to the charger so I assume he’s using it, and my battery life dips below an acceptable percentage for me, so I realize he’s not using it and plug in, and he goes, “Oh, I need that, mine’s about to die.”
(Some people want to tell you that if you don’t run rechargeable batteries down all the way and recharge them regularly you’re going to shorten their life. I am here to tell you this is simply not true; it applied to old nickel-cadmium batteries but we’ve been on lithium and nickel-metal hydride for like a decade or two now, so that’s squarely fallen into irrelevance. Also my laptop is older than dude’s and I very rarely run it down, and my battery life is fine; his is now dead and can’t run without being plugged in, which is A Crisis because we share power adapters. He had to bring home his one from work. The rule with lithiums is that you must never run them dead and leave them dead. But the other rule is that sometimes you just get a bad one, and it doesn’t do this until the warranty expires.)
Or, we’re out somewhere, and since he doesn’t, I plug my phone into the charger so I can play music on it without worrying, and then we get where we’re going and he goes to look up directions and says, “Oh, my phone’s dead,” and i’m like, bitch, I’ve been at 95% this whole time and also the music’s on your phone too, there was no reason for this to be an emergency.
He doesn’t see it as an emergency but sometimes it’s hard for me to be the one who has to look up directions and read them off coherently and not get distracted switching between windows on my phone. He has no issues with this, and I don’t think he really understands that I do– but I also think he just somehow doesn’t constantly know how charged his phone is??? I didn’t know it was possible to not have any idea. I mean, sometimes it changes and you lose track but I just– am always watching? if I’m using it? I let it get down to 30% without worrying yesterday because I knew I was going to come and plug it in tonight. Here I sit, woken up by the cold at 4:30, blithely using my laptop with a light on like some sort of civilized person, cuddling the charger because it’s warm and I feel much better now. It’s a miracle of technology!
