PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

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1y ago

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago
Pretzlcoatl

1y ago

What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

The first rule of fascism is, when it arrives, turn your guns against the fascists. Not against your friends who aren’t being anti-fascist enough, or weren’t in the past, or whatever.

1y ago

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

The evidence for my secondary conspiracy theory grows stronger

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

My new conspiracy theory is that a gang of people have teamed up to try to wind me up on this particular topic in what was supposed to be a lighthearted nonsense-question to which I gave an appropriate nonsense-answer.

You’re the only one who actually did arrive at something which is pretty much the actual answer (“coulomb counting”), although you keep mucking it up by saying things like you “can get a voltage sensor” to get the energy left in the battery, or “current through the battery” when the battery is the only part current does not flow through during discharge, or by making up wild random guesses that something is “almost certainly” taken into account. Just take all that extra stuff away and stick with “the phone monitors discharge” and you’ll be pretty much right.

Hopefully we can put this whole endeavor behind us now, and go back to talking about Chipotle and chemtrails.

1y ago

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Touchscreens can be made at massive scale and then repurposed in batches for everywhere. They’re always the same (roughly speaking). Buttons are individual components, you have to lay the whole thing out custom how you want it to be, you have to put all these fiddly little components together… just having a robot make a big square object along with 199,999 other ones is cheaper, even if technically the big square object is orders of magnitude more complex than the chunks of plastic and springs and buttons etc.

1y ago

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

You misspelled “resistance and time,” but close. The “A” part is the current.

1y ago

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Li-ion is worse. I looked up a few different articles, I just kind of picked that one at random because I didn’t want to spend more time on it. This one is pretty succinct about it:

https://www.pcbway.com/blog/PCB_Basic_Information/Important_Techniques_for_Determining_Battery_State_of_Charge_c46fe75a.html

“This method is not suitable for some other cell chemistries like lithium-ion, which has a negligible change in its voltage throughout most of its charge/discharge cycle.”

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Did COINTELPRO include planting fake conspiracy theories? I missed that part of it if so, maybe just because there was so much else in it that was so much worse

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Preach sibling

Idk how multiple super assertive people all got the idea that “voltage = battery percent” and all wanted to yell it at me the same time lol

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

I saw Ellen DeGeneres on TV long before the scandal and could immediately tell she was awful.

Just watch her interactions, from any time period. She clearly is just brimming with hate under the tense, smiling face and the manic presentation. I was sort of surprised that other people couldn’t see it.

1y ago

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

We need the guy who posted on Reddit that he thinks all of Chipotle contains a money laundering front based on big phone orders that would sometimes come in that would wind up not getting either made or picked up, just a fake order that went into the list alongside all the real ones but got paid for over the phone. He said this happened at multiple Chipotles he knew and he couldn’t think of anything at all it could be other than money laundering.

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

The remaining battery level is determined by the voltage available at the current consumption

Gets all condescending about how it works

Isn’t aware of the difference between V and mAh or the extremely horizontal (for most of the range) curve defining the relationship between them for Li-ion batteries

I got irritated enough by people spouting off at me to look up how it actually works, it’s not at all how you are describing, although describing it as “bullshit” is probably a stretch

So naw big bro

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

I absolutely think the government has deliberately spread various conspiracy theories at different points to cover up specific things they were doing.

“Chemtrails,” for example, became a thing with a bunch of wild accessory claims that were obviously wrong, at a time when people were discovering that the US government had done biological weapons testing by dropping viruses from airplanes over cities and in some cases hurt random people by doing it. If there’s a nutty conspiracy theory out there that sounds a lot like what actually happened, it makes it harder for people to talk about what actually happened without also sounding crazy.

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

I don’t think I am going to take confident proclamations about how it works from someone who thinks “voltage” translates to “how much energy is left in the battery”.

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-903-how-to-measure-state-of-charge

I don’t really know how this stuff works, that’s why it is my conspiracy theory instead of me just giving fun facts. But, I don’t think you know how this stuff works either.

It sounds like coulomb counting (current sensors, as you said) is often the method. Personally, I suspect there’s a decent amount of bullshit inserted into that to make it look “normal” when people are looking at how the number behaves, at the expense of accuracy. You might move your phone from cold to warm for example, and the usable energy in the battery might increase when that happens (or something) but it’s definitely not going to show your battery percent going up, even if it could detect it properly which I don’t think it can. Whether to say that means it’s “bullshit” is I guess a matter of opinion.

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

The battery level your phone shows is just made-up bullshit. It’s roughly accurate of course, but they can’t really check how much charge is in the battery with 1:100 accuracy, so it just counts down at a roughly constant rate making adjustments to the rate based on rough measurements of broadly whether the battery is “real full” or “mostly full” or “almost empty” or whatever.

1y ago

Bots everywhere or am I losing it?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Pretty unusual for five people to all vote within half a second of each other

This is actually a consequence of how votes federate out. They go out in batches, all at once, after a little bit of a delay.

I actually do also think that people are artificially trying to rig the votes about particular things (and frequently the admins catch some people doing it with careless obviousness), but this isn’t an indication, it’s more difficult to detect than that.