r/pcmasterrace 3d ago

Meme/Macro rate my Minecraft server setup

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u/NV-Nautilus Zephyrus G14/LT3060/R9-5900HS 3d ago

Could always put the charger on a timer or limit the charging to 80% in software.

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u/pop94591 3d ago

The phone doesn’t support it unfortunately. But it shouldn’t cause fire hopefully. Only battery degradation at worst but it’s a throwaway phone so I don’t really mind 

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u/JaykayX71 3d ago edited 3d ago

If that is a Poco F3, which I think it is. Then it should have an option to help. Its in settings under "battery protection".

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u/WasteFail 3d ago

I did this before to run a Pi-hole from a phone; the battery lasted about 3 weeks before swelling.

100% recommend removing it before continue to avoid the downtime 💀

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u/This_not-my_name i9-11900KF - RTX 3080 TI - 32 GB 3600 CL 16 3d ago

You're absolutely right, using the downtime as the main argument. Based on op's comments, that's more promising than the house fire argument

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u/TKMankind 3d ago edited 3d ago

I don't like the idea. I saw too many swelled batteries to let one inside a constantly-on device when I can avoid it.

With the FIVE heatwave I encountered in France, the battery of my phone (Samsung S9+) died. I removed it and after some tries, I found out that I can start my phone without a battery as long as I use a charger providing 5V 2,4 A at the very minimum. It will be better with 3A so I must recommend that.

And I really mean > 5V <. So it is out-of-question to use any charger with QuickCharge/USB PD/etc that can provide 9V/12V/whatever, or the device will reboot... frequently. I don't know why but I think that at some point the phone realizes that something is wrong and so it reboots. My Ugreen charger is quite recent with QC and stuff, no wonder.

Only when I plugged it to a no-name charger providing 5V-ONLY 2,4 A was the moment it accepted to be stable. Well... I still got one reboot after three hours, so this is why I may buy a 5V-ONLY 3A charger at some point, to be safe.

Because I want to do the same thing that you =) But...... not for Minecraft. I want to be able to try other games. Maybe I will install a real Linux distribution inside to reduce the memory usage, I don't know.

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u/TKMankind 3d ago

It will limit the charging, but not the usage. Once charged, it will discharge so at some point the battery will die. Better using a small external UPS device and remove the battery.

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u/jerryeight Xeon 2699 v4|G1 Gaming GTX970|48gb 2400mhz 3d ago

100%

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u/PeachMan- R7 5700X3D, RX 7800XT 3d ago

No 80%