Lifehacker is about improving productivity and efficiency. It is more efficient to charge your phone with a cable than a wireless charger for a variety of reasons. Easy-peasy.

I’m not really concerned about the added power usage. I would like, to know, however, what impact wireless charging has on the wear-and-tear of the battery. Because in my mind, the devices I’ve been charging wireless have lasted much longer than traditionally-charged devices due to not wearing out the charging port.

In the example given it took 14.26wH to charge the phone. Multiplied by 365 (once a day for a year) gives about 5200wH, or 5.2kwH. My city rates (which I understand are pretty cheap) are $0.10300 per kwH, giving a yearly cost of $0.53/year. The article says wireless charges are about half the efficiency, so figure a…

The sole reason that I started using a wireless charger exclusively is that the most common failure point on my phones has been the charging port. Crud and pocket lint gets shoved up there, the contacts wear out, and if a phone case has a little rubber flipper to protect the port, that rubber flipper wears out and…

Back when Dubya was president, my elderly grandmother had to go to the ER. They asked her the usual questions to make sure she was mentally well-oriented. One of the questions was “Who is the president of the United States?”

One of his most obnoxious tendencies is his complete inability to stop fucking gloating about himself. He can’t just say “rest assured that all tests came back in good order and I’m fine”, he has to endlessly brag and strut and preen over them and pretend he “aced” them, once again proving that he’s not just a regular…

Mass transit has cut back drastically due to COVID-19, and parking in DC is super expensive. Plus temps are in the 90s and humid, this is simply not building storming weather.

It’s like listening to a political officer talk about Great Leader in North Korea.

I find it “surprising” and “unbelievable” (not to mention “disappointing”)that we as a nation haven’t stormed the white house, dragged his flabby racist ass into the middle of Pennsylvania Ave. and snuffed him out like the Lybians did to Gadaffi.

“That’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anyone do what you just did.” - as in no one has ever called a lion a hippopotamus. 

“Holy shit! He did it!”

In his defence it is the first test he ever took for himself and he was up all night revising. Once or twice it came close, he almost forgot what a clock looked like until he remembered the times that each of his favourite tv shows (Hannity, cops, sesame street, playboy channel free five minute teaser, dukes of…

They weren’t shocked that he passed, they were shocked that he just scrawled ‘110% Score by Presidential Decree’ on the paper and left. Most people don’t do that...

Why, he’s an expert at lion.  He does it multiple times daily.

Leave it to this stable genius to out himself. This basically confirms he most likely had/suspected a stroke or TIA when they rushed him to Walter Reed for “standard testing” or whatever bullshit they fed us. Giving him a cognitive test lines up with diagnosing one of those and probably shocked the doctors when his…

a show of incredible mental acuity that doctors found both surprising and “unbelievable.”

I’ll let Chris Rock respond:

I want to see a follow up to the series where Jordan shows up, unannounced, with a cameraman to the homes of all his former teammates who are complaining now. And Oakley is standing by the car, just glaring at them.

About Craig Hodges - he wasn’t part of the “cocaine circus” Bulls team of 1984-85 (Jordan’s rookie season). Hodges was playing in Milwaukee then and didn’t join the Bulls until the 1988-89 season, which was Jordan’s fifth in Chicago. Hodges was referring to the players around the league as a “fraternity.”

Man back in my day, someone if called you part of a cocaine circus you’d stand up proudly, put on your bear suit, and start to ride the fucking bike.