The person I responded to only has one device. But even if there were multiple devices, you could just have a smart switch per device.

The fire hazard issue is that holding the battery at 100% increases the internal chemical stress on the battery, and increases the risk of thermal runaway. So keeping it well below that will definitely have significant benefit. Ideally, trickle charging it at around 50% would be best for almost eliminating further strain. (But you’ll likely need to charge it from 20-80% occasionally to help the battery management system keep calibrated.)

And things can be done even smarter. Like only charge the battery at the coldest part of the day, typically early morning to reduce heat stress. Or throttle the device if it’s temperature reaches a threshold. Etc.

Yes, if you can remove the battery, that’s helpful. But keep in mind you lose the benefit of battery backup during mains failure.

Also, mobile phone fires get a lot of media attention because “drama,” but they’re not the hazard everyone thinks they are. You’re far more likely to have a house fire from rodents chewing into electrical cables, clothes dryer lint catching fire, or anything with a heating component. Ebikes and escooters are far more likely to catch fire than phones.

The point is if you’re not emptying your dryer lint filter every use; if you’re not getting home pest inspections every six months and putting down rodent traps or baits; if you’re not getting your heating-element devices professionally checked regularly; if you’re not storing your ebike well away from flammables; etc., then worrying about phone battery fires is ridiculously out of proportion.

I’ve got a colleague who says she’ll never buy an electric car because of the fire risk. But then she drives around in her gas car which is 8,000%+ more likely to catch fire.

If you’re still paranoid, keep the device in a non-combustable container away from flammables, and near enough to a smoke detector. It’s easy to setup something that if the phone catches fire it’ll just burn itself out.

At all? What do you believe the fire hazard is then?

Use a smart power switch.

Battery level drops below say 20% - turn switch on and start charging.

Battery level goes above 80% - turn switch off.

For Android, you could use something like the Tasker app to do the monitoring and switching.

From the article:

… early humans were able to tap into in the form of roots, starchy vegetables, and seeds.

These foods are all allowed and even encouraged on the paleo diet.

If anything, by limiting the list of starch sources to these foods, this article adds support for paleo.

You’re partially right. Trump originally wanted to ban TikTok because “China.”

However, the platform’s influence on younger voters supposedly helped him to win the election, so he now favors it.

No surprise that Trump’s personal needs are far more important than real US security.

CrowdTangle, MetaSpark, Moves, Onavo, Bump, Parse, etc

At the risk of getting political, you should expect that to go up under Trump. The tariff war with China during his first term kept panel prices high, and it’s going to be worse this time. And that’s not his only policy that will affect pricing.

… there are somethings that are often left out of the pricing

Another example that gets skimmed over or ignored is the massive cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant. It typically ranges from $280 million to $2 billion, depending on the technology used. More complex plants can be up to $4 billion. And the process can take 15 to 30 years to complete.

Yeah great storage price at ~$4 / TB / month. But be aware that egress is $7 / TB.

If someone is mostly just backing up, that’s probably not an issue… well, at least until you have to do a big restore, or you do large recovery testing, or even just backup validations, etc.

If someone is doing lots of reading of their cloud data, e.g. streaming, then there are overall cheaper options than Storj.

One other thing I liked about Storj is that they split each file up geographically. So there’s a little extra level of privacy and security.

Sure, anyone can sign with a key. Having THE key is the extraordinary part.

Fun fact. If you took every dodgy, corrupt politician and lined them up end-to-end in space… you should probably just leave them there.

Huh? I run SmartTube beta on my phone. I don’t recall having to do anything “magic” to get it working.