I have a really distinct memory of finding a bunch of these in a friend’s house when I was a kid and every one was empty. After watching the TC video I think it’s more likely I just wasn’t pressing hard enough and had no way to know that. Anyway, I can see why they stopped making them.
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Yea, you have to press till it hurts, lol
I ended up buying a couple testers from Walmart for like $5 and they've been super useful! Definitely worth having in every household
If they are not rechargeable, they don't make sense, you just use them and throw them in the used up recycle pile. And if they are rechargeable, you already have a charger that does it.
It also has to be a waste of some resource that is rare to not use up and throw away like this.
Just use your $200+ Fluke to check the batteries, problem solved.
They checked out
What with the weird freebooting article? This ‘article’ is just a description of Alec’s video with the clickbait cranked up to ten. Gotta love a major corporation using small creators’ work for free ad revenue…
Tbf I hate watching videos, so I found it useful.
Doesn’t mean this is good content I think belongs here. The original video that links to a transcript and a source article do belong here. You want a description cause you don’t want to watch it? go feed the link into chat got. Or ask in the comments. I’m gonna call out corpo freebooting bullshit when I see it and it doesn’t belong on lemmy.
Sorry, I’m pissy rn.
Damn! I never even thought about sending it YouTube links. I might try doing that with some of those "retrospective" videos that are hours long.
Sure, that’s a fair opinion. I just don’t share it. I wouldn’t have known about this video in the first place. Also I don’t care to use AI summaries.
Coincidentally I was also a fan of the described functionality on batteries and I have used it gladly and without hurting myself. So that clearly makes me different from the vast majority of people here in the comments.
I may have been just as happy with the original article the video is based on, who knows. But since that wasn’t shared here I preferred this one over the video.
You could add the link so people don't contribute to ad revenue if you feel strongly! https://youtu.be/zsA3X40nz9w 💜
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I'm fairly sure that the image is even a screenshot from the video. Uncredited I notice.
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Video on technology connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsA3X40nz9w
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But the video purports that normal people don’t really test batteries.
Yeah, it was a novelty that increased the price to manufacture and didn't actually add anything of value to users.
Either you put batteries in something and they worked or they didn't, and if they stopped working the next step is try different batteries whether or not the little gauge showed it had charge left.
Now if it was added to rechargeable batteries, it would be pretty useful because tou could do something with the knowledge of a battery being at 50%. But a lot of systems with rechargeable batteries have them built in and some other way to show remaining charge like a percentage on a screen.
Now if it was added to rechargeable batteries, it would be pretty useful
I think the reason we haven't seen that is that NiMH rechargeables have fairly stable voltage during discharge while alkalines don't.
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I was a kid then, but I remember that I had to push so hard my fingers hurt... I used a multimeter.
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It turned out that batteries randomly lying around are always empty. Functioning batteries are still in the device it's operating or in the box it was sold in.
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It broke too many thumbs.
He used old batteries, but I actually had new Duracell batteries with this feature very recently, in 2022 or so (Germany).
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