• kmartburrito@lemmy.world
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    I know it’s proper usage of the word accumulators, but I’ve basically never heard anyone refer to them that way.

    Are you a part of the Borg by any chance, OP? 🙂

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      Sorry, English is not my mothertongue. How would you reformulate the title in proper English?

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        Small cylinder batteries are just called “batteries” in English. If you mean the type that you can charge, we call those “rechargeable batteries”. People will infer that you mean the cylinders even though usb batteries are also rechargeable (I’d call that an “internal battery”).

        I like the sound of accumulator more though. In English that word is usually reserved for hydraulics or electrical engineers

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        I think this is awesome, don’t change your verbiage, it was just interesting. Thank you for sharing! I got some cultural experience today.

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        blessedly we just call batteries “batterier”, but the fun comes when you get into components where capacitors are “kondensatorer”, which even to natives just sounds like it’s supposed to get so cold that water condenses on it lmao

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        I don’t know that accumulators have to be rechargeable, just an object that collects (even if only at its initial charge) and stores energy.

        It’s just not a term I hear often, and I thought it was interesting. I like also hearing about how other countries use the term, it’s enlightening. I didn’t realize that it is the primary term to refer to a battery in several countries.

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    We’ve had one like that, you could even plug it into a computer and access it as a usb flash drive and change the sounds

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      Would not recommend plugging USB into a computer with access to anything important to you.

      I’m not a privacy nut, but USB should be treated like a sex toy of* unknown origin.

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        That is very true.

        The toy we had was from around 2010, I think that there may have been less risk back then, but your point still stands (PS I was using linux as a desktop)

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          My father in law worked security for the government, he wasn’t i.t security but he worked with those guys, the amount of citations for plugging in rechargeable vape pens was absurd. He was there when the furby scare happened and they thought that was funny, but then a computer did get infected when someone brought in a digital picture frame, so shits been pretty serious since the late 2000’s

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    Unless the batteries are easily user replaceable, this is just planned obsolescence to get you to buy another when the batteries die.

    If it includes an easy to replace battery? Then you’ve bought from a good company who gives a damn about both environment and consumers.

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      Lithium batteries are very compact and competitive price wise. Not overkill in the slightest.

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        They often get thrown in the garbage instead of being recycled. They can catch fire when punctured. Not something I would want near a small child when a NiMH would do just as well.