Soo... Turns out, if your laptop has usb-c charging and it has several such usb-c ports, you can use them simultaneously.

My lappy has issues with usb-c sharging, i.e. it becomes sluggish when charging w/ usbc (compared to on-battery and charging through barrel plug). Aaaaand Linux tends to occasionally crash if I unplug the charger while it's "awake". I wanted to change chargers, so I figured I could plug in the second one (hoping not to see any smoke) and unplug the first one. As soon as I plugged in the second one, all the lag disappeared and the battery keeps charging.

So if you have an usb-c charger that's too weak for your laptop, try using two of them :D

Never would have thought....

Me thinking electrically: How the fuck!?

This makes perfect sense and also makes no sense at all at the same time! 😄

has technology gone too far?!

All I can think is that there are 2 rails. One is on CPU and gets pulled low causing sluggish? The other is more independent?

@Demolishun no idea, but it somehow works 😁

not the prettiest setup tho..

@netikras that laptops place is like "ok, gonna do something quick" and finding yourself hours later still in that position. I use a kitchen table. A lot of room for arms. Like it allot.

@retoor it's its charging place 😁 not for working with it

@netikras you don't have to be ashamed young man! :P Anyway... That's nice information.. But what if you put four chargers on it? Ever thought about that? Maybe it's gonna hover or smth.

@retoor put on your safety glasses before trying that.

@Demolishun When a battery is charging it's usually disengaged, he's laptop is most likely browning out/PC limiting the wattage

@Lensflare I'm assuming the laptop can exceed the rated limit of the charger (which it knows because of the chips in the cable) e.g. boost to 200W which is the limit and then throttles, 2 chargers = >200W capacity

@BordedDev the cables have chips in them?

@Lensflare Yep, part of the USB-C 3.1 standard

Otherwise, you'd burn your house down running 100W through a cheap USB cable. (AFAIK if it's missing it only operates at some "safe" capacity, probably same as USB2 5v 2A)

Quoting from wikipedia:

Full-featured USB-C 3.1 cables contain a full set of wires and are "electronically marked" (E-marked): they contain a "eMarker" chip that responds to the USB Power Delivery Discover Identity command, a kind of vendor-defined message (VDM) sent over the configuration data channel (CC). Using this command, the cable reports its current capacities, maximum speed, and other parameters.[31]: §4.9  Full-Featured USB Type-C devices are a mechanic prerequisite for multi-lane operation (USB 3.2 Gen 1x2, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, USB4 2x2, USB4 3x2, USB Gen 4 Asymmetric).[31]

@BordedDev imagine telling someone in the 70ties that we will have chips in freaking cables 😄