potustheplant

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[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve also had to replace phones for broken USB ports which in the grand scale is probably more wasteful than the extra power use.

On one hand, yes, your port can break at some point. On the other, why would you throw away the whole phone if the usb port can be replaced? Going even further, you could always use your usb port for charging until it breaks and after that you could start using wireless charging. For data transfer there are plenty of apps and ways to wirelessly transfer data so that wouldn't be a problem either. At the end of the day, you're barely using your usb port and you're also wasting twice as much (or more) energy that you would if you used a wired charger.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wired turbo chargers are bad as well. However, although I don't know about iOS, Android lets you plan your charge cycle. That makes my phone take about 8 hours to charge while I'm asleep.

Or you could just not use a fast charger and not worry about that. Either way, you're moving the goalpost. Not all phones support fast charging and not everyone has a fast charger. I'd wager most people charge their phones with lower power (15/20w more or less).

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd be interested to see how you measure that. It's also not really a matter of opinion. Even though you may not notice a wild difference, your battery did degrade more than it would've, if you'd used a wired charger.

Also, the inefficiency is bad enough for me to rule it out. You literally waste at least twice as much power compared to a wired charger (source). Although we're not talking about a crazy amount of power, it's pretty selfish to waste it just because you don't want to plug in a charger.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

You do realize that wireless charging is also very inefficent and reduces your battery lifespan, right? It's also kinda weird that your port goes bad after such a short time. Maybe you should clean it more often and make sure not to put any tension on it when you use it. I even have a 10 year old phone and the port (micro usb) still works perfectly fine.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? Why would it? This is about having enough ports for your stuff. How much power they consume is completely irrelevant.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Keyboard, mouse, usb extension to have a port on my desk, wireless charger, dac, xbox wireless controller dongle and a usb microphone. That's 7 and I'd use an 8th port to charge my vr headset. So yeah, it's not that hard to use 7 ports at once.