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[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Oh, shit, why do I feel rested!?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Oh, that's right, I got on medication half a decade ago now.

It's like reverse nightmares lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

E: struggling to upload the photo rn, so I'll just

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E2:

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (5 children)

then you find out the power went out, and your boomer habit of using a normal AC powered alarm clock (so you can keep your phone away from your bed to improve sleep quality) just bit you in the fucking ass

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yea I went back to using my phone after that happened. The clock had a backup battery, but that only kept track of the time, the alarm didn't sound.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Oh that's bullshit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah. A clock with a full backup battery (not judt time keeping) is on my list of things I should get but can't be assed to go look for.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could get a clock with a backup battery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

mine has a backup- it's a coin cell to keep the time saved, not to run the alarm.

i'm sure true rechargeable battery clocks exist that would further solve this problem if I bought one; but that would both require effort to find a good one, and also run against my other boomer habit: being a fucking tightwad lmao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

i use a smartwatch (a cheap-ass huawei band) as an alarm.
also has a bonus feature of not waking up 5 other family members.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

like, do you wear it while you're sleeping even? or just on a charger pedestal

I do have an old samsung Gear 2 that I don't use anymore. Could use that and skip pairing to my phone. I just don't wear smart watches, because I never wear a watch at all (blue collar industry habits, can't wear any bands that might get caught in moving machinery)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i just keep it on 24/7, even while showering/sleeping (i basically only take it off to charge, which it only needs once every 10-14 days for like 15 minutes).
The vibro alarm thingy is surprisingly effective at waking me up! (somehow wakes me up even faster than traditional loud noise alarms)
but yeah in your case i wouldn't be very convinient

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't have a battery powered alarm clock?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

....no?

I have some big red LCD shit from the 90s that i got out of a box at my parents house lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so you can keep your phone away from your bed to improve sleep quality

Wait how does this work

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just keeps me from using the damn thing. Whenever you're in bed you should be sleeping, your brain gets accustomed to that habit of lay down = sleep.

If you have your phone there while laying in bed and decide to pick it up to scroll lemmy/instagram/youtube/whatever, the stimulation and blue light will make you want to not sleep. Plus you might end up burning two hours of your sleep tine and not realize it....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ohhh duh right, of course. I was thinking like notification sounds or even the signal itself somehow interfering with sleep quality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

notifications do bother, i usually have DnD mode set up to turn on automatically. i'm not quite tin-hat enough to blame the 5g signal waves tho lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile me: wakes up 20 minutes before my alarm every morning, needing to pee: "another morning, another bathroom, another power nap"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Happened to me today. Turns out MIUI optimized the Clock app.

I allowed it to autostart, I disabled battery optimization, I locked it in recent apps.
It may still occur.
But hey, I only woke up 30 minutes later. "Something isn't right."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I loved how my xiaomi went EOL after a major update that broke receiving calls, also the battery saver thing.

Never buying anything off them again, especially after GDPR notifications on everything, like why the fuck do you need this data (I know. Xi Jinping wants to know the good furry fetish porn)

/rant

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

just don't use the official ROMs? this applies for every device btw, OEMs are not to be trusted

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not all features are always available on those ROMs.

One example is GrapheneOS and Google Wallet which I cannot use due to GrapheneOS not being considered "certified software" by the app and therefore not being trusted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

spoof safety net or sth
there are ways to get gpay to work. also you may have more luck with lineageos and full system install of official, proprietary google services instead of graphene (but of course you'll be sacrificing your privacy)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

some phones just dont have custom roms, e.g. A32 5G, or have broken custom roms, e.g. Calls dont work on the A42 5G.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't buy such phones. Personally though I'm never again buying a phone where I can't install GNU/Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

A32 5G costs anything from $150 to $300. Trust me, I know what it means to be on a budget - I've never owned a phone that costed over $250. However, at that price I'd much rather get something like OnePlus 6 - an old phone with amazing community support (in fact, the new OnePlus 6 I bought from China costed $150) and specs that frankly are probably going to be better than newly released "budget" phones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

old phones like that arent readily available where i live.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They aren't readily available here either, so I'm ordering it online. Unless you want to tell me you have less online purchase options than people in Russia.

I've read your comment history and you said you live around Balkans, fwiw back when I was in Montenegro in 2017 I ordered Zuk Z2 from Aliexpress, it stays well supported to this day, you should be able to do something similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Last time I bought something online(im assuming you mean other countries ) it costed DOUBLE the sale price because of import duties.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sounds like my Moto G5s Plus. I updated it to Android 8.1 and it started having issues like lagging, completely freezing up, randomly restarting, battery drain, overheating, etc.
Oh, well. It ran PixelExperience 11 just fine. It also allowed me to use the notification LED that Motorola disabled in software for reasons unknown.

Edit: I just like this part from bootloader unlock license agreement on what doing so may cause:

Cause the Device to overheat, explode and/or catch fire, exceed SAR values, exceed safe volume settings, and otherwise be unsafe, including creating the potential to cause serious bodily injury, including death

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

It could be worse:

I have an issue with finally getting a chance to sleep in, not setting an alarm, waking up on my own feeling rested, ...aaaannd it's been 45 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We all need more sleep. Drinking coffee with my toes is getting a bit socially awkward. And trust me, when you get my age, you'll only wish you had indulged in more sleep when you were young. Now I have to take an entire bottle of Ambien and drape a towel drenched in chloroform over my face to get any sleep at all! (WELL maybe I should cut back on the caffeine also....).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you been checked for sleep apnea?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No because I'm not willing to be put on a CPAP device. I suffer from bleeding throat due to an unnaturally dry throat, and I cannot tolerate any air forced down my airway. I probably DO have sleep apnea, but I don't have the usual symptoms of it, I simply usually just feel restless in bed and unable to feel sleepy at all. I go to bed late, you'd think I'd be worn out enough to sleep, but I just lay there. When i do sleep, it's all nightmares and I don't get any rest from that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They have a new device that you wear on your neck that electronically stimulates you to prevent apnea. Might be worth looking into. I’m not an expert though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You don't always need some device for sleep apnea, if it's not a bad case. But what you're describing doesn't necessarily sound like that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@tygerprints @MrMamiya @getoffthedrugsdude yeah, you need to just deal with the C-PAP before you die.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Literaly me 3 times this morning

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I didn't know the chick from Big bang theory was making memes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Snape is very flexible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Why is he already sitting up with coffee, though? The other version of this was better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I'm so fckn confused by this?