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>I doubt any phone battery is lasting 5+ years.

Just coming up to five years on mine and it is still at 87% capacity.


That is genuinely shocking to hear. You have to be like 3+ sd above the mean. Do you know how many charge cycles you have? I recall that most batteries need replacing after 300-500 cycles.

My iPhone 14 Pro is almost 4 years old and at 65% capacity. I don't know how everyone else is (not) using their phones.

I’ve got a 14 Pro Max, used it extensively for four years and got mine at 81%.

I think you are the average case.

I follow the estimate that lipos lose 2-4% capacity per year without any use beyond recharging for safety. If the battery sees daily use that number gets a lot worse.

My guess is everyone else is the perfect mix of hardly any use and winning the battery lottery.


iPhone 11 coming up on 7 years old in December, still at ~85% capacity.

Really it mostly depends on how heavily you use it, and maybe to a lesser extent charging habits (charging slowly, not charging to 100%, etc).


I hear you, but the convenience of 30W charging is very hard to give up. The only downside is it damages the battery, which makes it harder to give up, which damages the battery more.

the convenience of the old usb charging brick that has been plugged in under my bed for 15 years is very hard to give up.

I have an iphone 13mini at 5 years and 81% capacity.

My 13pro is at 84% capacity, but in the last month or two it seems to lose charge much more rapidly than it used to. Probably the only reason I'll consider an upgrade.

Very jealous over here. I had a 12 mini whose battery dropped off a cliff just in time for the mini line to get discontinued.

Big phones are overrated.



It took them two years to update my address.

Pages has an export menu (File -> Export To -> PDF).

Well they should fix that ASAP

MacOS's current Finder dates from 2001

Arguably it dates from NeXTSTEP so 1989.


That has changed. I'm not sure when but it definitely asks me if I want to replace or merge.

But not changed enough, I can't merge everything from the top, I can only do that whenever the first Mergeable conflict appears, but there could be a bunch more of conflicts with Replace option only

Just checked and this behaviour came with Lion in 2011.

>The thing is, it needs to be 1:1.

I'm not sure about that outside of Excel and even then only for a small proportion of users.


Try saying that to the govt when they send some documents to your university that must be filled by several ppl and suddenly content isn't alligned anymore as it originally was.

The main thing that has changed isn't that Linux has got much better but that most corporations deliver their internal applications through a web browser. The days of companies being anchored to win32 are long gone.

Of course there are exceptions like Excel but that is rarely more than a small portion of the workforce.


> Of course there are exceptions like Excel but that is rarely more than a small portion of the workforce.

Excel is still a huge (ginormous) moat, particularly as MS have built basically all of their data tools into it.

Unless someone creates a better Excel, MS will be around ~forever.

And even if only a small proportion of the workforce needs excel, those people tend to be concentrated in the portion of the business which measures money, which means it'll never get cancelled.

That being said, I do think that basically all institutions in the EU/Europe need to get off the US tech stack, as inevitably it'll be weaponised against us.


Perhaps it's just bad art.

I think that is quite likely but it is going to be a painful transition. Especially for the people who were only attracted to the profession for the money.

Sure but I assume they can find money in other things also and will probably be attracted to that just as much. For example prompt crafting may be their new home.

I’m not sure about the car. I seem to remember reading that commute time has been remarkably consistent even going back to Roman times. All the car allowed us to do is build homes further away from our workplace.

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