Same. I have mine set to sit at ~50% while plugged in & still have 100% of my battery health.

It’s an M1 Pro MacBook that I’ve had since launch.

I've also been using it on a 14" M1 MacBook since launch (Oct 2021). I'm currently at 86% battery health.

I keep it at ~80% limit normally with occasional charges to 100% for long trips, etc. I do spend a lot of time on battery though so it's charging and draining a lot, but rarely goes above 80% charge.

Thanks for posting your results, I'm curious just how much the charge limit helps battery longevity.

I wish I had discovered it earlier... I'm at 90% battery health on the same model which I use plugged in the vast majority of the time.

Do we know what the mechanism of action is?

"[Loss of smell] is sometimes the only symptom to be reported, implying that it has a neurological basis separate from nasal congestion. As of January 2021, it is believed that these symptoms are caused by infection of sustentacular cells that support and provide nutrients to sensory neurons in the nose, rather than infection of the neurons themselves. Sustentacular cells have many Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors on their surfaces, while olfactory sensory neurons do not. Loss of smell may also be the result of inflammation in the olfactory bulb." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symptoms_of_COVID-19#Loss_of_s...)

I should have clarified - I meant the mechanism of action for the new treatment.

> So everyone you interact with knows where you work, how much you earn, what you own, where's your house, what you buy, what groups you belong to... and they can keep tracking you forever if you tell them who you are just once.

Granted public blockchain is a lot more discoverable, but a lot of this already is public. Property ownership is public (at least in the US), credit cards sell your data, facebook knows which groups you belong to, etc.

Not nearly to the same level, and a lot of that is proprietary info. Facebook collects lots of data but doesn't like to share it.

Some of it is, but things like property ownership are completely open in some countries. I have a map overlay that lets me see ownership for parcels.

Granted you can have an LLC own property, but that's a different obfuscation mechanism.

Blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. Conventional technologies can do the same thing with far less overhead. The issue is that they're 'conventional' and not 'new/shiny/sexy'.

New doesn't always mean better, and it's often objectively and demonstrably worse than what preceded it.

I'm not defending blockchain, just pointing out that part of the example wasn't really a good one. Property ownership being something that's already completely public.

I have a public map overlay on my phone that gives me deed information for (AFAIK) every parcel I can see in the USA.

It looks like some mirrors have packages going way back (http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/), but depending on your use-case, it may be more beneficial to focus on the base system upgrades (documented in the upgrade guide) and worry about the packages later.

That many years of package changes could be troublesome to deal with, and it may be better to fast-forward to whatever the modern tooling would be.

I believe that's the case too.

However speaking with my manager I think the long term plan is to dump it for RHEL - too bad because I'd like it on my resume :-) Not every day you can play with OpenBSD in prod - usually it's just on my oddball computers.

What are you using them for? I feel a lot more comfortable using OpenBSD in production than Linux for the long-term (my personal opinion). I've been using it since ~3.5, and the 6 months releases have been ticking along nearly flawlessly for a long, long time.

Yes I feel like OpenBSD can be a great system for this use case, but the prior owner of this system had neglected it. Now it's still on 5.6 and who knows how much cruft has built up.

It's currently acting as a bridge system that translates 5010 X12s to 4010 and vice versa. Strangely enough the whole stack in Golang which I don't believe considers OpenBSD to be a supported platform?

Did you have softupdates turned on?

As of this update, softupdates will be a NO-OP (and has been for a while in -CURRENT). This won't help you in the near future.

I won’t go over their history, but they’ve saved me in the past.

Here’s to hoping we get a modern FS soon!

Counter-point: it can also be extremely cheap.

I’m in a seemingly small subset of people that is very happy with AWS for side projects. Granted I’m not doing anything that requires many resources.

I’m not making predictions about anything, but part of their job is to prepare for worst-case scenarios.

That's true, although isn't the thing here that they plan for realistic worst-case scenarios, which is the scary part? There are probably lots of worse worst-case scenarios which they'll never do much preparation because they're so unlikely. War with China does not seem to be that unlikely.

> War with China does not seem to be that unlikely

Well, the more the US prepares for it, the more unlikely it is. Or, the best way to win a fight is to convince the other guy it's not worth fighting.

> because they're so unlikely

Or because the outcomes might be so bad, it's not worth it to prepare for it.

you think war between two nuclear powers is likely?

Playing devil’s advocate - this was thought to be a real possibility during the Cold War, and it seems like we came pretty close a few times during that period.

A nuclear war between two nuclear powers is different from a conventional war between two nuclear powers.

The former is, hopefully, unlikely unless one side feels there’s an existential crisis or a major loss. The latter is extremely likely.

Though the latter can definitely escalate into the former.

I predict world war 3

How does this statistic compare to experts?

There isn't even a number. It's been generally regarded as just flatly impossible using current technologies. Even a partial step towards reliable earthquake prediction would be a massive advancement.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_prediction#Difficul...

Experts don't make predictions like this.

Yes

It’s similar to how when I travel overseas, I have local currency in my account & that gets converted to local currency through an intermediary as I pay.

The intermediary usually charges a small fee. I only see local currency exit my account, and the seller only sees their local currency enter theirs.