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Cake day: October 27th, 2023

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  • mAh mean nothing outside phones, because they only convert to an energy unit if they are paired with a voltage. The reason why it’s valid with phones is that they all have the same voltage, so it’s always an apple to apple comparison. If you change device type, it doesn’t make sense anymore.

    For example, my Pixel 6 has a 4700 mAh battery at 3.75 V = 17.6 Wh. But if the voltage was, say, 9V, then it would be 42 Wh. Which is a battery twice the size.

    You can’t compare mAh across device types which don’t share the same voltage. Which is also why I hate it so much that it’s become the standard way to talk about batteries for phones.


  • Yep, I have 32 on both laptop and desktop and average usage even with no apps open is 10 GB. But as soon as I start doing memory demanding stuff, like running WSL, VS Code and 4 VMs at the same time (don’t ask), after closing the app and returning to the original conditions the usage is 2-3 GB.

    Some times it frees too much, like that time I accidentally tried to use 45 GB of memory and it let me. Task manager was running of the ssd and the performance of even just moving the mouse tanked, because basically everything OS got moved to the “swap” memory.