you always have to manage a million different cables for each one, and they all suck. why can’t we just use AAA batteries instead of these shitty lithium ones? it’s so fucking frustrating. where can I find gadgets that work while plugged in, or at least don’t need to be recharged every two fucking days?
For sure. When I get something new, regardless of what it is, I tend to look for whether it takes regular batteries or not.
Take bike lights, for example. So many use non-removable batteries. Why? If you run out of power with one, you’re SOL. The best ones I own take 18650 batteries, you can swap them, upgrade them, and carry as many as you need as spares.
I hate, absolutely HATE the fact that phones don’t have swappable batteries like they used to. Right now, the only reason I’d have to replace my perfectly good phone is because of battery degradation. Previously, I’d just buy a replacement, pop it in, and I’m good to go for another few years at least.
But even back then, every phone model had a different battery. Now it would just be worse with how specialized those have become.
I’d buy it as the use case if you want to carry a spare battery (like you could currently carry a portable charger), so obviously a replaceable battery makes or breaks that. However, you’re giving the use case of replacing your battery when it goes bad, but phone batteries easily last 2+ years and are not that expensive to replace. This seems a lot to go through just to be able to save a little on the cost of replacing your battery once in the lifetime of your phone