[userbinator]

Somewhere down the line, many of us got the idea that our laptops should always be plugged in to improve their performance

Because the manfacturers made the firmware defaults downclock the CPU if it was on battery power.

Also, is it just me or does this article have an "AI generated" feel to it? The arguments it makes are somewhat in the "uncanny valley" between truth and fiction, and the phrasing of some of the sentences seems very unusual, especially this last one:

Stop charging your laptop past 100% today, so you can free yourself from being plugged in tomorrow.

Stuff like this also raises some red flags:

It’s when hen[sic] there are too many lithium ions on one side that the battery gets stressed.

[tumult]

Yeah, this does seem AI generated, or at least “AI assisted” in that it was primarily written by AI and a human slightly modified it and then stamped their name on it.

Just look at this paragraph:

“Many laptops sit on a charger throughout the workday and all through the night. We don’t even think about it; we just plug in everywhere. We’re charging at work, at home, at the coffee shop – a collective addiction to a laptop at 100% battery. There’s nothing more frustrating than a laptop that can’t hold a charge, but your charging addiction may be accelerating the issue.”

It’s entirely air. It says nothing. The transition to the “There’s nothing more frustrating than a laptop that can’t hold a charge” sentence also doesn’t make sense. It’s like an 11th grader padding their essay to 1000 words, except the entire article is like that.

[mewpmewp2]

But I feel like LLM wouldn't make such non-sensical content, unless they used some obscure LLM.

The article is over dramatized causing false statements, doesn't use any of the usual GPT4 lingo etc.

E.g. claiming that it is the "worst thing you could do".

[tumult]

Could be, yeah.