• kalpol@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    In all seriousness, the transition of small devices away from AA/AAA batteries is very annoying. I always had batteries charged, now I have to constantly plug some junk in and wait?

    • pnelego@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I invested in some rechargeable NiMH AAs, and AAAs. Now sometimes I think i prefer some things with old school batteries just because of how convenient it is. Granted, that system wouldn’t work well for my headphones, or my phone. But seems just fine for the odd remote control, kitchen gadget or portable lamp.

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Rechargeable AAs and AAAs have finally been perfected, I am kind of annoyed by things that have only internal batteries now, I don’t want them going to the landfill just because the cheap device died. Let me keep running the batteries for a decade in other shit.

        • rumba@lemmy.zip
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          2 months ago

          For decades we had battery packs that could be replaced. we have lifepo4 that’s super safe to handle, i don’t know why we don’t have replacable battery packs anymore :/

        • kalpol@lemmy.ca
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          2 months ago

          The internal batteries often aren’t that hard to replace. If you can get the device open the batteries are standard sizes you can order and often just plug in. Except phones, phone manufacturing relies on pure evil

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        12 days ago

        Ideally we could just have the best of both worlds, if a device can charge a built-in battery i see no reason it couldn’t just be built to charge a removable battery instead.