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We don't need fast charging. Phones will be left on wireless charging surfaces, which will eventually be ubiquitous. Everyone hates usb-c plug in. Just leave it on a surface, pick it whenever you want.

We don't need to fast charge anything, phones or EVs. Slow charging preserves battery life and smart charging will charge whenever it is cheapest.

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I've never seen anyone hate usb-c, what world do you live in? And on phones fast-charging's cost on the battery life expectancy is negligible[0]

Also, wireless charging is finicky and comes at a cost: way less efficient energy transfer.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5Cg_yNdM

Well hatered for USB-C for charging connectors seems to be strong in this thread alongside the dislike for being able to have changeable batteries.

Hell, this thread even has a person whose argument against USB-C is that mandating it will mean that the EU will get conquered by Russia.

I hate USB-C. Hi. I do a lot of woodworking and the port easily clogs with sawdust and lint. It was very easy to clean it each day when I had a lightning connector, a common toothpick would suffice.

Now I have to purchase specialized non-marring micro tool scrapers to clean the port without damaging it. The scrapers break after a few cleanings, so this is an ongoing monthly recurring cost. Yeah I can charge wirelessly, but I still don’t want sawdust in my phone hole after a day of ripping wood.

Finally someone with an argument. I do hear why you dislike it, most people seems to do it without any reason... As it was said by someone else you might be able to cover it up somehow, either a rubber plug, or 3d print a small strip of plastic and put it in your case.

I do ranch work in a place with a lot of iron in the soil. I often have these sand sized grains of dirt in my port. But I had it in a lightning days as well. I just hate ports.

Before MagSafe, this used to kill phones. Now my son has a phone without a port, but it’s not dead.

Those ports are most of the time, at least in the android land IDK about iphone, on daughter boards and easy to replace. Even though in a perfect world this should not happen, still it is possible to do without too much of a hastle

Most of phone repair parts available to consumers are factory leaks. They are scraps and/or stolen stocks. They only exist because law enforcement in China is still, sort of strategically left, lacking. They are destined to go away as time goes by and/or parts are standardized and/or parts supply are legalized and/or mandated.

This seems like the ideal use case for those 'rugged' phone cases with flaps over the ports, no? Not ideal, but certainly a lot easier than having to clean gunk out of the port constantly.

why not to buy a rubber usb-c plug?

Yep that is annoying. There are USB-C magnetic charge adapters. It will prevent shit from getting into the slot, and easy to charge magsafe style. And of course you can easily take it out temporarily to use a standard USBC charging cable.

Put the cap on it. Or get a phone with inbuilt flappy caps. True rugged phones all have them.

Toothpicks work great for this if you narrow them a bit with a knife.

As a woodworker I'm surprised you didn't have that idea :D

(Like, c'mon, toothpicks aren't immutable objects that fall out of question just because they're a bit too large)

huh, when I make em thin it's too flimsy to get the packed sawdust out. Maybe I need to get some premium hickory toothpicks

Hmm, no idea if we have different toothpicks around here...

What also works (and funnily enough is also called a "toothpick") is the flat plastic thing some "swiss" pocket knives/tools (Victorinox brand) have.

Charging a 5Ah phone empty to full every day of the year adds up to all of about 7kWh. Nobody cares if you shave off a couple cents per year if the experience is worse.

But slow charging will preserve the battery life a lot longer, which is more important.

Wireless charging, on the other hand generates heat, which is bad for the battery.

Slow, wired charging is the best combination for battery service life. A basic 5-10W power supply when the phone is going to be plugged in overnight is a universal method to achieve that; AccA on a rooted Android device with suitable hardware allows fine-grained control in software.

Even more important is to avoid charging the battery to full. The higher the voltage, the quicker it wears out.

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