I was chatting with AI today about battery settings on my Pixel phone. I asked whether it’s better to set it to charge only to 80% or to let it charge to 100%. Gemini came back with an interesting perspective I hadn’t considered.
“The irony of the 80% charging rule is simple: to prevent your battery from losing 20% of its capacity over three years, you voluntarily throw away 20% of its capacity on day one.
In attempting to protect the hardware, people impose the exact restriction they were trying to prevent: an artificially shortened runtime.”
