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duxup on March 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things you can do with a browser in 2020

I suppose you're doing what might be a resource intensive task and want to be sure you don't kill the battery.

Granted I get folks might feel a rando website that is resource intensive would be horrific, but maybe we're talking about some specific web app / use case.

zzo38computer on March 20, 2020 [–]

Even so, I think battery API is not the proper way to do it. Some sort of interrupt command (like UNIX has) may be better.

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