In which FrostCat brags about the alarm on his phone again
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Your'e not impressing anyone with that.
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Your'e not impressing anyone with that.
But I'm right.
Also, I claim mod abuse with that title.
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But I'm right.
You're positively left compared to me.
Also, I claim mod abuse with that title.
It's nice to be appreciated.
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Blake I'm with you, I have an "old-fashioned" alarm clock that I keep on the shelf. The benefit of that is that I have to actually walk across the room to turn it off which makes sleeping in less likely
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That's not the word I would've chosen.
That's the difference between me and someone obsessed with using his phone alarms.
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At night? When would you think I'd charge it?
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That's the difference between me and someone obsessed with using his phone alarms.
You're the one--well, you and your alter-ego @blakeyrat--who keep bringing it up. I just keep answering questions. You might re-think who's obsessed.
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I have 3 of the cables my phone uses to charge. One near my computer. One near my computer at work. And the third in my laptop case. None of them are near my bed, because there are no USB ports near my bed.
I'm assuming that, unless you just use it to store extra cables, the laptop case means there's a laptop. Put the laptop near your bed. Voila, there are USB ports near your bed.
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Then my laptop battery runs dead.
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Plug it in. You didn't say anything about not having any AC power outlets near your bed.
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No, but he did say that the existing AC outlets did not have the capability of accepting another device (having been consumed by the alarm clock and reading lamp).
Solution! Phone charger to phone, which acts like a reading lamp (well, torch, but whatever kids), alarm clock, and (!) it charges the phone!
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To say nothing of the fact that I actually used to use my convertible laptop as my alarm.
Try hitting the snooze button! It won't appear until you've unlocked the PC, and of course this is in a network that requires an 8-character minimum password with all sorts of rubbish rules...
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Put the laptop near your bed. Voila, there are USB ports near your bed.
Of course if you use a phablet-sized phone that wants a 2 amp charger, you'll need all night to charge from your laptop with its paltry half-amp charge capability.
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I hear this. My phone demands 4.5 Amps, and is VERY picky about what chargers it accepts.
Most get the invisible finger and are forced down to about 200 mA, which, of course, isn't even enough to run the phone and in fact drains the battery more (because the phone isn't allowed to sleep while plugged into the charger, no matter what you check-marked in the Developer Options), even with the screen off.It's kinda funny, when I managed to get it to charge at 500 mA it estimated almost two days to full charge from 78% (sorry I didn't take a screenshot of it :( )
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No, but he did say that the existing AC outlets did not have the capability of accepting another device (having been consumed by the alarm clock and reading lamp).
Sheesh, easy... just unplug the alarm clock.
Or get a power strip to add a few more outlets. Or... chances are, the laptop charger cord is long enough to reach an outlet that's farther away.
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just unplug the alarm clock.
But then he'd be reliant on a phone! Isn't that his main objection?long enough to reach an outlet that's farther away
Yeah, seriously. My charger cord can literally be plugged into the outlet on the other side of the room and have slack. Granted my room is only 8' long in that direction, but still, it's like they expected laptop users to be places or something!
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Am I the only one using a smartwatch as his alarm? It works really well for me, because it's impossible to ignore and the app I use requires you to press a random button sequence (shown on that tiny screen) before the alarm goes off, so it's impossible to disable that alarm unless you're actually awake.
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When do you charge the phone? Do you charge it at work, but go into work with an empty battery? Do you just buy like 27 chargers and put them all over your house?
I usually plug the USB charger in a plug by my bed, connect the phone to it, then set the phone on my bed to track my sleep.
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The entire point in buying an alarm clock that sets itself is so you don't have to set it manually.
Cell phones do that also...mutant.
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Where do you people buy phones that plug into outlets to charge instead of USB ports? Am I some weird mutant?
Every smartphone I have ever purchased has come with a wall socket powered charger. Every damned one of them. Without exception. Even my old StarTac had a wall charger. The fucking Zach Morris phone I had in '96 had a wall charger. Every Nokia. Every Blackberry. Every Android phone.
You cannot make myself, or any person in this thread believe that you have purchased a phone without a fucking wall charger. Didn't happen. We all collectively call bullshit.
Mutant.
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The wall adapter also has one handy bonus: it charges faster than a USB port.
The past few phones I have bought all came with > 2A chargers. My Razr Maxx took forever to charge at < 1A. I don't think the USB 2.0 ports would even do an amp.
Now I have a phone with wireless charging and I don't think I could go back. I just drop it on the charging pad on my desk and it stays at 100% all day. I can't wait for the day that I can just drop my laptop bag on a mat at the end of the day and in the morning everything in it is charged.
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You cannot make myself, or any person in this thread believe that you have purchased a phone without a fucking wall charger. Didn't happen. We all collectively call bullshit.
Guess what's not included in the package when you buy a Moto G (2nd gen, dual-sim version)?*
*Answer: A wall charger.
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I like the clock, because it's always sitting there telling me the time. I can just look over there. I know that's too old fashioned for you. You need to be able to touch your clock to read it.
The S6 Edge does the same thing as your old timey clock, and the past few phones I have had had a nighttime mode that displayed the time at all times.
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Guess what's not included in the package when you buy a Moto G (2nd gen, dual-sim version)?
Yeah, but no person in a first world nation buys one of those. Your point is moo.
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Yeah, but no person in a first world nation buys one of those.
TIL I don't live in a first-world nation.
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The model I'm talking about was sold in every single country in western Europe and was actually quite popular there. The fact that it's not sold in the US doesn't mean it's one of those phones that were only sold in third-world countries. I suspect they didn't release it in the US because dual-sim is not that popular/useful there. It works just fine with US carriers, though. :)
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Regardless, I am afraid that if I Google "does the Lumia come with a wall charger", Google would say, "Of course it does, are you fucking retarded?"
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Cell phones do that also...mutant.
Not only that but they magically update the time correctly when DST happens, even if it changes due to bureaucratic assholery, unlike Blakey's oh-so-special clock.
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I don't think the USB 2.0 ports would even do an amp.
All computer ports do half an amp unless they are specified to be charging ports.
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You might re-think who's obsessed.
That's fair. It's not so much that you're obsessed with your phone, but why the rest of us aren't as hooked to ours as you are to yours.
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Shh, he's just mad because they can't buy dual-sim phones in the US of A because of telecom lobbying or something.
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Shh, he's just mad because they can't buy dual-sim phones in the US of A
you can actually, they just aren't common, and the ones you find are generally crap, and you have a hard time convincing certain major telcos to activate your phone on their network because they don't like carrier unlocked phones.
because of telecom lobbying or something.
or something like that... ;-)
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So has FrostCat actually said anything weird that I can't see here, or are you just acting like that to be funny?
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It's a long running thing. In the past, he's been shocked that people would walk into a room in their house without bringing along their phone or that we'd have things like alarm clocks when a phone has that functionality.
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I must come back here and read all the posts 'cos it looks like an interesting one (to me) because I can't wait to jump in with this:
Since I bought a DAB Radio / Alarm Clock, I have never needed to worry about or change the time. If ever I did, and have done once or twice, I switch it off and on. It stays in the "nominal" bedroom, my phone stays with me (mostly). I try to ensure my phone and the clock have the same alarm times (so I don't wake up to switch them off more than I have to).
The only thing(s) more my phone offers is "one time only" and the clock only has 4 alarms "slots" (limited, I guess, by the real estate needed for "dedicated" buttons.
Ps. The DAB Clock is my "time reference"
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It's not so much that you're obsessed with your phone, but why the rest of us aren't as hooked to ours as you are to yours.
That's not either. The fact that you prefer to strap a miniature grandfather clock or sundial to your wrist bothers me not in the least.
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And if by some weird chance your phone didn't come with one, you may...
- buy a wall charger
- buy a USB adapter that plugs into the wall
- find one of the wall chargers that come with some other device that uses MicroUSB
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GIBBERISH
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Oh I forgot...
- pretend that none of those options exist and rant about how people are weird on an online forum (LALALA I CANT HEAR YOU)
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The fact that you prefer to strap a miniature grandfather clock or sundial to your wrist bothers me not in the least.
You have a weird definition of "fact" though.
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Oh bonus win I just noticed! That one didn't make a bullet list! Yay for discosistency!
Inb4 I didn't ask for any belgiuming help!
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Inb4 I didn't ask for any belgiuming help!
did someone ask for some help belgiuming?- bullet lists are easy!
except when
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bullet lists are hard!
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occasionally
bullet lists are easier than they should?
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i never @accidentally a word.
i frequwently @accalia them though.
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E_JOKE_FAIL
-20 internets to @accalia!
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