It’s me, live with it

I noticed a strange thing that’s happening among my friends. When they are using their laptop/notebook with wall outlet, they unplugged the battery.

When I asked why, they said it was to prevent the battery from being damaged by continuous charging and discharging.

This is not right, I thought. And with a quick research, it turns out that I am on the right way. I like it when it ends up this way.

Anyway, You should already know that Lithium-ion batteries don’t have any memory effect problem, so let’s scratch that one.

Now the only thing left is the constant charge-discharge cycle. Yes, it might be a problem, if it actually happens. You see, as far as I know, modern laptop doesn’t use its battery power when connected to power outlet, the battery is just sitting there, being recharged peacefully. Here’s some reference. Okay, the second link is somewhat contrary to what I said, but they are talking about using the laptop with wall outlet all the time, instead of constantly plugging and unplugging it.

And no, you can’t overcharge Li-ion battery. Every lithium-ion-based-laptop battery uses internal electronics to monitor its condition, charge capacity, and so on, and the moment the battery declared itself as ‘full’, charging stops. Unless, of course, there is actually something wrong with the battery.

Maybe I’m not right on the last two paragraph, you are free to debate over this problem. 

What is certain is that Lithium batteries age. It will only last two or three years, no matter whether you put it into use on your laptop or keep it in the shelf. Which one is better? Don’t ask me.

But if you insist on unplugging the battery when using it with wall outlet, I will laugh at you if there is a power outage and you forgot to save your 2-hours-worth of work. Seriously, I will. Just tell me when it happens.

The same girl who gave me some Lamb of God tracks also told me that this music video is funny:

Now, I invite you to feel the hell I’ve gone through and barely survived. 

And for those who thought that that is lamb of god… Dude… That is vanilla sky singing rihanna’s umbrela

Have you ever heard the band ‘Lamb of God‘?

Me neither.

But a quick search gave me some insights. 

Why, you ask, do I suddenly talk about a heavy metal band?

Simple, a friend of mine gave me some tracks from their album. It is nicely labelled as ‘Track #’ where # is number between 3-14, minus 4, 8, and 12.

Well, I presume she thought that I don’t actually like these kinds of music, but that’s dicing with fate, and fate wins.

Anyway, I listened most of it, And I like them.

This is not weird in any kind of way, I don’t have any specific musical preference; pop, ballad, rock, visual kei, heavy metal, classical, pretty much I have something I like from a genre. Never heard any black metal, though.

Now, back to the-album-that-I-don’t-even-know-the-title by the-band-that-I-just-heard-about. This album is filled with typical heavy metal style, heavy guitar distortion, lots of screaming and growling, bass notes that blends with the guitar, like I said, typical. But it’s not bad at all, like I said, I kinda like it.

I heard track number 13 first, not for any good reason, mediamonkey just gave me that one first when I click ‘play now’. Started with a lot of drum beats, and growling, I thought it will be a normal heavy metal track. I was right for a the first minute, but the reff itself is potrayed silently, started with only vocal and accoustic guitar, then the electric guitar joins, and the drum. Call me crazy, but I really like that kind of phasing.

Now, I already heard all of them, but the one that gave me the chill is track 13, maybe because I heard that one first. The others have prettty much the same style.

So, do I recommend them? Yes, if you are into heavy metal music, I heartily recommend them. But if you aren’t, well, it is up to you, really.

Another piece of advice, not much people are into heavy metal music, so please, if you are listening to them do so at reasonable volume. Or, of course, use headphones, like I am using. Again, listen to any kind of music at reasonable volume, so you don’t damage your ears. 

EDIT: It turns out that ‘track 13′ that I mentioned isn’t Lamb of God’s, It is from Avenged Sevenfold. Oh, well…