Use the OS battery charge limiter (or Magisk “ACC” module). Most phones have the capability to bypass the battery and draw from the adapter. Keep it cool and at 60%, and it won’t get spicy. Heat, cycles, and high/low voltages kill batteries, so by avoiding all of those they’ll stay unspicy.
If there’s a market for it, replacements will be made. You can buy a replacement PS5 battery for $5. You can also buy a iPhone 4 battery (still). LiPos are quite easy to make (geopolitics aside) so making one that fits is not hard at all.
The PS5 battery has a plug, if the Steam Controller is like that (probably is), the only tool required is a screwdriver, which seems like a great tradeoff to replace the battery every 5+ years instead of every week or two, and being able to recharge it easily and quickly.
Worst case scenario you have to use a generic battery that is about the right size instead of a perfect fit. Maybe a little less battery life but it’s still more than enough anyway.
“Results showed a small but statistically significant ability of test subjects to discriminate high resolution content, and this effect increased dramatically when test subjects received extensive training.”
Basically, people can just barely detect high res audio but it’s not much better than a coin flip. If you have lots of experience you’re more accurate but not by a whole lot.
Anyway 48kHz sampling can produce up to 24kHz and the human limit is like 20kHz. Most songs don’t have 96db of dynamic range, and 120db is hearing damage, so the idea that the average person can easily hear the difference is not true.
By the time they get feature parity I’ll be dead. Affinity is just plain better right now, and it’s not Adobe.
I agree with some of what he’s saying, but is seems like the main issue is surveillance, not digitizing IDs. I mean if you have a driver’s license you’re already in a digital database. Or if you were, know, born. If they wanted to track you, they can use your car (like Flock Safety) or just your face. They already know where you live and where you work. The problem he faced in China is being required to scan IDs everywhere (and get logged), and that the government has total control of their internet. Neither of which are happening here.
It seems like the current way it’s going to be implemented is basically storing ID information on your phone that’s signed by the government. So if the bank scans it they can see your information, that it wasn’t tampered with, and that it matches what the government has. Just some bytes that got cryptographically signed. Not much different from a physical ID that’s “signed” by having a bunch of security features. They already have to verify any identification you hand them, this will just make it more convenient.
Now if the government can see each time you use it and what for, that’s different. That’s what he’s against. But it doesn’t seem like that’s the way it will go. And it seems like digital ID is optional, you can just use a physical ID. So this seems very alarmist to me, IMO.