Decky Power Tools already offers this, and I believe there’s a desktop setting for it as well. Still very nice to have though.
Would definitely be really nice since we tend to leave our Steam Decks plugged in all day
The Steam Deck has power pass through so the battery doesn’t get worn down when plugged in: https://bloggedoff.com/2024/04/25/steam-deck-battery-lifespan-power-passthrough/
Sure, but that helps prevent degradation due to charging cycles, not charging capacity
this really should just be a bog standard feature on all devices with a screen
With a battery*
Hell yeah another valve W, I always do that using power tools
I would like this since I mostly play plugged in, but I would like easily swappable batteries even more. If they were hot-swappable, that would be even better!
That’s how all rechargeable batteries work isn’t it? If I understand correctly, there’s no such thing as 100% because it would break it.
Is the change here that they’re letting the user set the limit?
Yes, but this allows user to define lower limit, which further prolongs the battery life.
I want to be able to control whether it charges up to 75, 90 or 100 of the available capacity.not quite, there is a 100% and there is a true 0%, but going above 4.2V or below 3.7V damages the battery’s capacity incredibly fast, so it’s better to avoid those by setting 100% to 4.2 and 0% to 3.7 (also because that’s the interval where most of the energy is stored) (Talking about Li-ion here)
My Samsung phone does this and it drives me crazy. i wish they’d lie about the laat 20% they’re keeping free and just show me at a full charge
Alternatively, they could just charge to 80% and show that it is 80% charged, like iOS and macOS do.
edit: I seemed to have misread the comment above. It’s useful to not be lied too, in my opinion, because then you still have the option to charge to 100% when needed.
