I know all these things very well. My question was why the changelog said this would only benefit the docked use case when it benefits all use cases. Noone answered my question and instead told me things about batteries I already know. You did not answer my question either.
I think you’re missing what I am asking. If the deck is not docked it will get charged from x to 100 more often then when it’s docked, which hurts the battery just as much if not more than staying at 100. The cycles from 80 to 100 are exponentially more harmful than 30 to 80. So why is the case for docked so much more important that it is the only one being mentioning in the changelog? Now people who don’t use it dock will assume it’s not important for their use case when they would in fact profit from enabling it.
But why is this more important than non docked usage?
Well yes, but what batteries like even less than being at 100 is being charged to 100 constantly. So why is docked the use case they decided to feature?
This can be useful if your Steam Deck is constantly being charged (i.e. docked), or very rarely has its battery depleted.
I was under the impression the steam deck used pass through charging? I mean it’s still useful and I’ll definitely set it to 80% for docked, but it should also be useful (or even more so) for those who do charge it a lot instead of those who rarely charge?
My question was why the changelog says this is only useful for docked usage even though it’s useful for everyone.