Google has reportedly started rolling out the new battery charging limit feature to Pixel phones with the latest November update.

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    15 days ago

    Oh, that’s good to see. I’ve had it for about a year now with lineage OS, but I’m not sure if that’s because it was an Android feature or because lineage added it. But I’m guessing that lineage added it.

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      14 days ago

      The state of modern technology is so unhinged that not only has it been a basic feature of the core operating system for almost a decade, enabling it on any device that doesn’t intentionally break the feature is literally just creating a specific text file with the desired charge limit as an integer.

      echo "80" > /sys/devices/platform/google,charger/charge_stop_level

      I wish we owned the things we bought. 🙃

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        4 days ago

        Why would you want to own the stuff you buy? Imagine the overwhelming burden of ownership crushing you and you won’t feel that way anymore.

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          4 days ago

          You’re right, how short-sighted of me. Thank you corporate overlords for saving me the burden of managing your text files for you.