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Hee. I'm sitting in the library - working, manifestly - and there's this little brown bird making its way along the windows, examining all the spiders' webs in the corners of the frames, and picking out snared insects for its lunch. Cheeky sod.
In not utterly unrelated news, a question: is it better for a laptop and its battery-life to be:
(a) generally run on battery, and recharged when it's switched off; or
(b) generally powered from the mains, plugged in with the battery left in situ, to hot-charge as and when it needs to; or
(c) generally powered from the mains with the battery removed altogether?
I ask because the library offers power outlets to laptop users, but not in the quiet areas; so I am alternating between being plugged in among the sniffers and the mumblers and the cellphone users etc, and running off battery among the nice quiet people at my preferred table right by the graphic novels where the Talbots' Dotter of Her Father's Eyes stands face-out on a shelf with no interference from me. As it happens, I can still get four or five hours'-worth of charge from the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection, but I don't know how long that situation will obtain, and if I need to nurse it one way or another I'd like to know what sort of treatment would be best. (Also, if I have to replace it, best to know what best practice actually is before I start...)
In not utterly unrelated news, a question: is it better for a laptop and its battery-life to be:
(a) generally run on battery, and recharged when it's switched off; or
(b) generally powered from the mains, plugged in with the battery left in situ, to hot-charge as and when it needs to; or
(c) generally powered from the mains with the battery removed altogether?
I ask because the library offers power outlets to laptop users, but not in the quiet areas; so I am alternating between being plugged in among the sniffers and the mumblers and the cellphone users etc, and running off battery among the nice quiet people at my preferred table right by the graphic novels where the Talbots' Dotter of Her Father's Eyes stands face-out on a shelf with no interference from me. As it happens, I can still get four or five hours'-worth of charge from the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection, but I don't know how long that situation will obtain, and if I need to nurse it one way or another I'd like to know what sort of treatment would be best. (Also, if I have to replace it, best to know what best practice actually is before I start...)