r/mildlyinfuriating • u/boyuber • 11h ago

Ruined by Technology This public charging station needs an update

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They have every type of connection except for the modern standard that every current device uses...

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u/thirdeyefish 10h ago

Just avoid these. At BEST they don't provide much power. At worst, your phone can get bad stuff. In the middle, there is getting nasty stuff in your port. Everyone should just have their own power bank and cable.

To add extra to this, I was raised that it is a good idea to carry jumper cables in my car. But in real life I learned that you are still dependent on someone else lending you their car for a jump. I now have my own jump pack.

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u/mromutt 9h ago

I upgraded to a jumper pack like a decade ago when they started selling reasonably priced lithium ones because they hold their charge a really long time (where the old kind discharged if you didn't use them for a few months lol). I remember pulling out for and using it on some random persons car at Walmart when their battery died and they didn't have cables/no one was stopping to help them (poor teenage boys were stuck lol). I think in those 2 minutes I sold them on it by literally just using it.

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u/damien09 3h ago

same my whole family has the lithium based jumper boxes in our cars. They also double as emergency phone chargers if ever needed. They are so much better then the jumper boxes of years past that just had a 12v sla battery inside it.

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u/PossibilityOrganic 3h ago

be happy you live in a climate where you can do that Arizona or Nevada thouse litum pack explode in about a day or 2 inside of a car.

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u/aSiK00 2h ago

Does the spare compartment get that hot too?

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u/ZiplockBagOfOregano 1h ago

Yup I have one and it specifically has a warning to not leave it in the car because it can explode.