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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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672 points dmd | 3 comments | 18 Dec 24 18:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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Brajeshwar ◴[19 Dec 24 13:04 UTC] No.42461051[source]▶
I'm OK with the One-Year-ish battery life and happy to change them yearly. I try to do them in batches (the fours usually die together within about a month).

The irritating ones are in the bags/check-ins I stashed/stored snugly, and now I have to take them out to replace the battery. Of course, the bearable thing is that the battery lasts for about a month after the warning, so there is that.

I think I'm complaining about something which is not a big deal.

I’m not sure if this much bigger device is any benefit just to make it last 10-years and forget about it.

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1. MisterTea ◴[19 Dec 24 19:42 UTC] No.42465006[source]▶
Well look at in in terms of batteries deposited per year in the landfill: 0.1 or 1.
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2. conductr ◴[19 Dec 24 20:03 UTC] No.42465171[source]▶
GAAP requires you to accrue your batteries deposited in landfill, so back to 0.1 per year (/s if not obvious)
3. ianferrel ◴[19 Dec 24 20:12 UTC] No.42465246[source]▶
Two AA batteries is about 16 cm^3 of waste. 10 CR2032s is about 10 cm^3.

"Number of batteries" is not the right thing to measure. Maybe volume isn't either, but it's got to be closer.