In all seriousness, the transition of small devices away from AA/AAA batteries is very annoying. I always had batteries charged, now I have to constantly plug some junk in and wait?

[–] pnelego@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I invested in some rechargeable NiMH AAs, and AAAs. Now sometimes I think i prefer some things with old school batteries just because of how convenient it is. Granted, that system wouldn't work well for my headphones, or my phone. But seems just fine for the odd remote control, kitchen gadget or portable lamp.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Rechargeable AAs and AAAs have finally been perfected, I am kind of annoyed by things that have only internal batteries now, I don't want them going to the landfill just because the cheap device died. Let me keep running the batteries for a decade in other shit.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

The internal batteries often aren't that hard to replace. If you can get the device open the batteries are standard sizes you can order and often just plug in. Except phones, phone manufacturing relies on pure evil

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

For decades we had battery packs that could be replaced. we have lifepo4 that's super safe to handle, i don't know why we don't have replacable battery packs anymore :/

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I have two sets of headphones, one older set that takes a AA and a new one that charges. I use the older ones constantly since when they die I just grab a NiMH AA out of the charger and pop it in, back in 10 seconds. New one....not so much

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I bought a set for work that comes with 2 rechargeable lithium packs and an external charger so you can just swap as needed.