We don't even have the right to repair 99% of the time :@ The tech industry is so fucked.

It's certainly created many interesting hacks... this is the second talk I've watched in as many days about people trying to hack their way around Lenovo's "improvements". I used a Lenovo ONCE.... never ever again, I'm telling you.... yeuch! That awful excuse for a mouse.... the annoyance of Ubuntu crashing twice a day.... never again.... never ever again.

dedication!

Can't say for all brands, but Apple Li-Ion and Li-Polymer batteries do last thousands of cycles. My MacBook Pro (15") is 3,5 years old now, use it every day, and it's max battery life is around 10 hours still

IDK, my old ThinkPad W500 stills with the original batteries (including the "ultra bay" one) for almost 10 years.

I think you have a slight misconception but are not entirely wrong. "Termination" in context of battery charging refers to the voltage or charge state, at which the charging is designed to stop, i.e. the state of the battery which is considered fully charged by the charge controller. There is a fundamental tradeoff between nominal capacity and ultimate life that is regulated by the termination voltage. So older Li-Ion chemistries were safe to charge to 4.2V on the dot, and generally survived about 500-1000 cycles when used this way. Newer chemistries have been stabilised with newly discovered additives, and this presents an opportunity to go either way. Either you can raise the charge termination to 4.35V or so, and get a little bit of extra nominal capacity out of it, about 10-12% extra, and still offer a nominal life of 500 full charge discharge cycles for the vast majority of cells. Or you can retain 4.20V charge termination, then the cells are likely to do 2000-5000 full charge discharge cycles. If you consider a likely life of the device of 500 cycles, i.e. 2 years give or take, then retaining the classic 4.20V termination is still the more consumer friendly choice, as over this life, there will be more actual capacity of the cell left throughout device lifecycle, as the battery will degrade and lose capacity slower. If you believe devices or device batteries should last 5 years, chasing nominal capacity at the cost of life becomes outright indefensible. I don't know what charge termination laptops are going for nowadays. In phones, the increased termination voltage of 4.35V is basically universal, has been for a long time. I think the laptops made say 7-9 years ago already were in part using vastly improved cells, but weren't yet usually pushing termination voltage to the very edge of what they will suffer - but an odd defective cell that dies early still happens. The laptop in this talk is a 2013 laptop, and its battery life ran out after 2-3 years presumably due to a single defective cell rather than expected decay. So if you were thinking there is some kind of cycle counting that kills off or "terminates" the battery after a time, this is incorrect. But there exists this kind of engineering tradeoff that is being used in a manner hostile to the customer, which limits useful life, and prioritises on-paper specs over actual user experience over the lifetime of device.

It's basic neo-liberal capitalism... minimise costs to the very lowest level... make optimal profits as quickly as possible... run away with all the money before the customers get too angry. The irony that the last "great" (so-called) Communist country is the centre of this (lowest for of) capitalism is the greatest joke of all.

@@edgeeffect People should go to consumer court.

​@@edgeeffect What is liberal about that, might as well call it neo con. It's just same old greedy capitalist bs. The left and right terms are used to play you.