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
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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.
Oh that's bullshit
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.
Could get a clock with a backup battery.
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
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.
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)
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
You don't have a battery powered alarm clock?
....no?
I have some big red LCD shit from the 90s that i got out of a box at my parents house lol
so you can keep your phone away from your bed to improve sleep quality
Wait how does this work
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....
Ohhh duh right, of course. I was thinking like notification sounds or even the signal itself somehow interfering with sleep quality
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
Meanwhile me: wakes up 20 minutes before my alarm every morning, needing to pee: "another morning, another bathroom, another power nap"
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."
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
just don't use the official ROMs? this applies for every device btw, OEMs are not to be trusted
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.
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)
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.
Don't buy such phones. Personally though I'm never again buying a phone where I can't install GNU/Linux.
b u d g e t
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.
old phones like that arent readily available where i live.
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.
Last time I bought something online(im assuming you mean other countries ) it costed DOUBLE the sale price because of import duties.
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
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.
I didn't know the chick from Big bang theory was making memes
Literaly me 3 times this morning
Snape is very flexible.
Why is he already sitting up with coffee, though? The other version of this was better.
I'm so fckn confused by this?