On Alarms and waking up
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I don't have a landline. If I lose my cellphone, I have nothing to call it with
I have a wife and kid, so have extra phones in such a situation. Plus theororetically I could email myself or something and get a gmail notification.
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ITT: @boomzilla tells everyone to get off his lawn.
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In 2000 I had a Nokia 3310.
Did it serve double duty for knapping arrowheads or something?
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If I'm away from home then I'm probably already doing whatever it was. But I would certainly have my phone with me, so if I really thought I needed some sort of alarm, it would be right there.
Got it. So you're already availing yourself of the capability, just refusing to use it because you're stuck in the 80s or something.
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Honestly, if my cell phone rings while I'm sitting at home, I'm like, "Who the fuck is calling me on my cell phone‽" Because 99% of the calls to it are from my wife, who is probably sitting on the couch next to me at the time.
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ITT: @boomzilla tells everyone to get off his lawn.
Which makes this thread special, because...
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Eh, why does it need to be next to me instead of on my desk?
I dunno, maybe you decided to call and order pizza and didn't want to get up, or you wanted to check your Farmville status, or someone sent you a text message out of the blue and you were curious who it was from.
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Got it. So you're already availing yourself of the capability, just refusing to use it because you're stuck in the 80s or something.
What, exactly, am I refusing to use, again?
ITT: @boomzilla tells everyone to get off his lawn.
If the alternative is carrying my phone with me everywhere I go, yeah, get the fuck off my lawn you feeble minded cyborgs.
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INB4 luddite.
Also, someone pass the popcorn.
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The discussion had moved on to include keys.
Only parts of it, and that's not relevant to the part that's "stuff you might carry around the house for whatever reason."
Why do I need to carry my phone around the house?
Because that's the only way you're going to get it into the bedroom to use it as an alarm, among other reasons.
I'm wondering how many more posts it'll be before you say "I just want to make a phone call" or "Enterprise, no bloody A, B, C, or D" or something similar.
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I dunno, maybe you decided to call and order pizza and didn't want to get up
The fuck am I married with kids for, then? If I'm in the living room, there's a phone in there already. It just isn't my cell phone.
or someone sent you a text message out of the blue and you were curious who it was from.
I guess if this happened a lot, I might do just that. Thank goodness it doesn't, though.
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Honestly, if my cell phone rings while I'm sitting at home, I'm like, "Who the fuck is calling me on my cell phone‽" Because 99% of the calls to it are from my wife, who is probably sitting on the couch next to me at the time.
Perhaps your wife is feeling mischievous and decided to troll you.
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What, exactly, am I refusing to use, again?
All sorts of things, but the ability to keep your phone in other places, as if it wasn't a 1980s princess model or something.
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Only parts of it, and that's not relevant to the part that's "stuff you might carry around the house for whatever reason."
And no one has come up with a good reason for me to carry any of that stuff around my house.
Because that's the only way you're going to get it into the bedroom to use it as an alarm, among other reasons.
Eh...I'd still need the clock (can't see the time on the phone by turning my head), and now I'm inconvenienced more than I already am. You're not making a very good case to me here.
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All sorts of things, but the ability to keep your phone in other places, as if it wasn't a 1980s princess model or something.
Huh? So now I'm supposed to value my phone because it can inconvenience me?
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The fuck am I married with kids for, then? If I'm in the living room, there's a phone in there already. It just isn't my cell phone.
I dunno, maybe you're in the basement or something when the urge strikes you. Or perhaps you're in the back yard plinking possums with your BB gun and decide to call in a delivery for more beer.
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I submit that the word has not appeared in this thread before the time of my posting.
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I submit that the word has not appeared in this thread before the time of my posting.
While that's true, @boomzilla's entire "contribution" to this thread has been a demonstration of Luddism.
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While that's true, @boomzilla's entire "contribution" to this thread has been a demonstration of Luddism.
:thatworddoesn'tmeanwhatyouthinkitmeans.ppt:
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By Article 4, paragraph 5 of the Pedantic Dickweed charter I hereby proclaim victory.
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I hereby proclaim victory.
I'll grant you victory as far as introducing the particular word into the discussion.
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:thatworddoesn'tmeanwhatyouthinkitmeans.ppt:
I put it in quotes to indicate sarcasm.
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I put it in quotes to indicate sarcasm.
Sorry, didn't have my phone handy to figure out how to interpret scare quotes.
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Then it most likely is a stock android thingy.
Maybe. But then why would many of the other major players remove that feature?
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Sorry, didn't have my phone handy to figure out how to interpret scare quotes.
So there's another reason it would be helpful for you to carry it around with you!
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Maybe. But then why would many of the other major players remove that feature?
BRANDED EVERYTHING! If it's not named <company name> Alarm Clock then it's shit!
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Maybe he wears women's pants--most of them don't come with pockets.
To be honest, there's not a lot of space for them:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
</right-pondian>
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TDEMS.
Never said it does. Currently wrestling with an older version of Samsung's custom dialer. Is shows text messages in the call log section. And they all have red arrows next to the contact name so I think it's missed calls.
WTF is that shit about? The stock one doesn't do that shit. Why the fuck did they replace it when only added "feature" is a confusing list that mixes two separate things that no one in the history of ever asked for?
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Never said it does. Currently wrestling with an older version of Samsung's custom dialer. Is shows text messages in the call log section. And they all have red arrows next to the contact name so I think it's missed calls.
You do know that most Android phones can be running Cyanogenmod within about an hour after you first think "wow, the stock OS on this phone is dung..."
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within about an hour
Last time it took me two. Because I first had to find out that Samsung is so special it has a different key combo to enter the bootloader. And then freaking heimdall had some complaints about my USB ports.
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Last time it took me two. Because I first had to find out that Samsung is so special it has a different key combo to enter the bootloader. And then freaking heimdall had some complaints about my USB ports.
Yeah, my laptop has one USB2 port and one USB3 port., and
adb
will only recognise my Samsung on the USB2 and my Motorola on the USB3... what is up with that?
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No idea what the problem might be in your case. From what I gathered my problems were with
libusb
handling USB ports on hubs poorly in some modes. And pretty much all of the ports on my laptop are connected to an internal hub.
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my normal pant wear is surplus BDUs
I now have an image in my head that you are this guy:
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Wanted: Alarm clock with TurboSnooze for "fuck the morning routine, it's cold and I'm tired. Wake me in an hour."
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Wanted: Alarm clock app that calls up:
- audio of current traffic
- audio of traffic in twenty minutes on a random bad day
- audio that summarizes the current fullness-state of the dishwasher plus counter plus sink*
- audio of Lou Gossett jr. screaming "You WANT sleep!! My GRANDMOTHER wants SLEEP!"
Your desire for these features may vary.
Paging @accalia - where's my Anti-Snooze button?
*Hmmm actually, it needs to include where every blasted dish is in the house - I need to RFID them so the kids get them back to the kitchen
No, I didn't have a long morning, why do you ask??
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Cellphone Carrying Conflict Summary
You're approaching "needing one cane for each hand when yelling at kids to get off your lawn" territory.
FAIL. That's not possible, if you need two canes, wave them both then you will fall over. Have. Tried.
set the phone down next to you... unless ... you worry you'd lose it.
relevant to the part that's "stuff you might carry around the house for whatever reason."
Worry? I know I'd lose it.... All the stuffs are carried around the house, and everywhere... until I sleep.
"Enterprise, no bloody A, B, C, or D"
Right. Your point?@FrostCat said:
maybe you decided to order pizza
[why] am I married with kids for, then?
as if it wasn't a 1980s princess model
Pink.value my phone because it can inconvenience me?
@FrostCat said:you're in the basement... when the urge strikes you
Quoted without comment.
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FAIL. That's not possible, if you need two canes, wave them both then you will fall over. Have. Tried.
not so!
you could be seated in a rocking chair and accomplish the feat.
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a rocking chair
Great. Now I have to keep track of a chair, too?
That won't fit in a pocket...
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FAIL. That's not possible, if you need two canes, wave them both then you will fall over.
Only if you rely on them to stand; you could have the canes as a fashion accessory. Though you'd also need the matching top hat and monocle.
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Great. Now I have to keep track of a chair, too?
superglue it to your backside? then you never have to get up and can't lose it!
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superglue it to your backside? then you never have to get up and can't lose it!
I can see two problems with that arrangement: #1, and #2.