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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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Shit batteries which only last until the warranty expires.
https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-216-summary-table-of-lithium-based-batteries
See the Cycle Life row?
& notice that there's no Lithium Polymer column..
Li Polymer lasts few charges.
It's cheap, though, & light, so it gets put in lots of things..
Making tech "disposable" so as to use enforced-obsolescence for repeat-sales, may be "profitable", but it wastes people's earnings & effort, too.
While wasting the world we're inhabiting.
"you can't serve 2 contradictory gods" principle is true: you can't orient to Right Action, if you are orienting instead to Effective Parasitism. They're different paradigms/orientations, & mutually-exclusive.
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There is no Lithium Polymer column because the page you linked explicitly only compares Lithium Ion batteries…
I a I'll have and use LG hb800 headsets that I bought like 7-10 years ago, and the batteries still last me the day
I’m not happy about jackxit either, but this is just like people buying vinyl. This person would probably get the same feeling in a test with BT headphones and a faux cable.