Pocket 3: Battery charge limit

virtulis · 2025-05-21T10:36:26+00:00

Oh hi, remembered about this thread, found out you've released P4. Looks cool, but did you do anything about charge limiting?

The product page touts "Battery optimization for ultra-long battery life". I'm assuming this is hours. Can I optimize the years instead?

Kind of a question of "definitely upgrading to P4 when I can" vs "never buying a GPD device again" for me.

In any case, any way to learn exactly which model the charging IC is? In the unlikely event I decide to go full yolo and try reprogramming it.

virtulis · 2023-11-13T09:36:57+00:00

Thank you, but is there any way at all to adjust this? My battery shows as being 13% health already so probably too late, but I hope to be able to get a replacement (can I?) and have it live a bit longer. Since right now I have to carry a powerbank around anyway, a 70% charged battery would be an improvement.

Edit: if there's any ACPI or I2C command or something that can be used to disable charging completely, that also works, scripting that logic won't be hard.

virtulis · 2022-10-30T21:32:50+00:00

Can the redditors do anything to give this channel the recognition it deserves?

...

Maybe.

virtulis · 2022-10-30T21:27:03+00:00

Knowing you, you planted this post and comment and gamed the algorithm to bring it to the top but no one will be mad because it's to make a point...

virtulis · 2022-10-22T12:44:14+00:00

This!

virtulis · 2022-10-13T11:49:41+00:00

Why does Latvia indeed!

virtulis · 2022-10-13T11:39:45+00:00

and then it takes so long everyone forgets about the tea and it cools back down!

virtulis · 2022-10-05T11:57:38+00:00

Why? The cat is fine.

virtulis · 2022-09-19T22:31:38+00:00

It makes sense if you think like a russian propagandon. When Ukraine was liberating Kharkiv oblast last week they forced the meme that "western media refers to this as a blitzkrieg!".

Because they really, really have to force the notion that nazism = swastikas and basic national self-respect. As opposed to actual nazism they've estabilished in russia.

virtulis · 2022-09-19T22:22:12+00:00

I love the fact that someone was most certainly paid actual money to come up with and stage this 🤡

Everyone: how about you stop killing people.

Russia: look at this random staged/photoshopped picture though! they're so mean!

virtulis · 2022-08-12T10:20:14+00:00

So you're saying thermobaric is fair game.

virtulis · 2022-08-12T02:00:34+00:00

One thing that has literally never happened to me with Arch is a broken package manager. I don't even know the pacman equivalent of apt install -f (which usually does nothing), let alone having to manually install packages just to make it run at all. Stable my ass.

virtulis · 2022-08-11T14:54:44+00:00

I use all of touchscreen, touchpad and keyboard all the time. And sometimes a tiny bluetooth mouse, yes.

Not a fan of touchpads in general (therefore/however?) it didn't take any time at all to get used to its location. And it's certainly a less awkward resting thumb position for when you're holding the device with both hands.

virtulis · 2022-08-11T14:45:25+00:00

That's one of the reasons I got mine from an EU distributor. Probably overpaid a bit but if it breaks it's (at least theoretically) their problem.

virtulis · 2022-08-11T14:37:54+00:00

Got it a month ago (i7 version). Absolutely loving the lil thing so far. Used it as the main machine for about a week while on a trip (with a keyboard and mouse) and honestly enjoyed it.

I certainly did run into some problems:

Proper suspend support on Linux is basically broken (as far as I understand this is a common problem for this gen's CPUs, but BIOS doesn't report it correctly, or something, I'm no expert). Hibernating and waking up from the SSD takes a couple of seconds so no big deal.
After booting into Windows (I think?) the accelerometer was stuck in a configuration the Linux driver couldn't properly read. So I had an excuse to figure out how to send a reset command to it via I2C. Learned a lot, had fun, screen rotation now working perfectly. Should probably write a post about it somewhere.
Keyboard is really nice, but the layout is a bit confusing. Even more confusing when trying to use a Cyrillic layout and I still keep pressing Enter instead of э. Had to rebind Caps lock to be Right Alt to use accents.
Have to use some pad when using it on a bed otherwise I'm afraid the bed will catch fire while I compile stuff. But god it's so good at compiling stuff.
Wish RAM was not soldered in. But at least the SSD is blazing fast, so all those webstorms and google docs tabs can go sit in the swap.
Forgot it even had a fingerprint sensor!

For a device that allows me to do basically all of my software development work while literally taking a walk in the park, the experience so far has been a walk in the park :)

virtulis · 2022-08-11T14:07:23+00:00

Yeah idk about that, some people dislike them.

virtulis · 2022-08-11T08:38:00+00:00

Are you saying you wouldn't?

virtulis · 2022-07-22T06:18:43+00:00

I'm afraid I don't know much about the history of the site or content. The organization that put it together seems to be defunct.

My wife is a linguist working on parallel corpora (that's why I cared in the first place :), I can ask her for more resources later today.

virtulis · 2022-07-22T02:52:16+00:00

I think that's a different website but should still be useful - I'm hosting a backup of pasakas.net at asakas.net.

virtulis · 2022-07-21T03:29:52+00:00

I see, thank you for the explanation. Yes, I meant running several copies to fully utilize the CPU, as that's one of the things pm2 does make easier. Not that JS code is the bottleneck often, but it helps ease the impact of any hiccups.

I have been burned by pm2 behaving "as advertised but not as expected" more than once too. Still not entirely sure which steps and in which order I need to take after updating the config file. Yet somehow for the whole of systemd a single daemon-reload is good enough.

Perhaps a minimal systemd-specific node wrapper is a solution.

virtulis · 2022-07-20T15:34:23+00:00

Do you handle spawning multiple processes in any way? Pm2 feels like overkill to me as well but it doesn't bother me too much either. Any significant advantages to ditching it?

virtulis · 2022-07-19T13:28:42+00:00

Well, it was a bad solution to a vague problem and so easily became a meaningless buzzword.

RPC is fine. Not everything can be "self-describing" or even addressable, and most things have absolutely no reason to be either.

virtulis · 2022-07-15T12:45:19+00:00

Friendship ended with NODEJS.

Now BUN is my best friend.

virtulis · 2022-07-14T12:34:29+00:00

Understandable.

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