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I'm afraid that this tip is so simple and obvious that it hardly needs saying. That didn't stop me forgetting all about it.
It is this:
If your laptop has nearly run out of juice, and you have the opportunity to charge it, then charge it.
See? I told you it was simple.
The circumstances that led me to share this ground-breaking, not to say earth-shattering, tip are as follows:
iPhone and charger. Photo from Pexels.com CC0
- Last night my laptop charge was down to 9%.
- I thought about putting it on charge, but didn't like the idea of leaving it charging overnight unattended, so I didn't.
- This morning we awoke to a power cut. With no laptop charge to speak of, it played havoc with my work schedule. (Even worse was the impossibility of a cup of tea, but that's another story.)
- As a result, we had to go to a cafe for breakfast, and then on to a library to plug the laptop in and get on with some work.
The moral: given the occasional exigencies of various services, such as the electricty supplier, if you get the chance to charge your laptop, phone or anything else, just do it.