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@Demolishun I said my light died. I have a a generator, it's called a dynamo, and you're right. I should buy a led one that works on dynamo
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@lorentz buy another light and pretend to be an airplane. You will scare people. But you live in city, there is always light. I did often not even use bicycle light in city, just forgot it.
My parents also live in middle of nowhere and it does have lights. They even replaced the road there recently. Normally netherlands maintains the outskirts well too. Maybe it's different per province -
@retoor doh, lol. I read a couple of times and missed that.
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@retoor the other day I've seen a bike with one red light and one green light, so maybe pretending to be a boat
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@retoor in the center. everywhere else there's light enough to tell where the road is supposed to be, but not to assert that it's actually a road and not a canal full of gravel with yellow-striped asphalt slabs resting on top
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@donkulator I avoid lithium anyway. I should have it as medication but after I fight I got alternative that was worse for a long while but now it's ok. Lithium can poison you if you're not frequent enough. It happened to my mother for same issue so no way
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Had the same experience many times, all I can say is who ever forced this decision is fucking retarded if they can't imagine a scenario where you really need a flashlight.
Anyway, a "fix" to this is: Always have a white picture saved on your phone and then just max the brightness... it's stupid - but it gets you just enough light to see something
I hate that this is the solution... we live in a word filled with retarded idiotic morons and this is putting it nicely -
@retoor Every Day Carry.
I have torches all over my house, and a handy headlamp too. I was PTSD'ed into it, we had massive power outages in my country lol.
Shit, reminds me, I should put one in my vehicle... I don't cycle, I'll get robbed haha. -
@dissolvedgirl getting robbed here is the last thing i would be afraid off. I never lock the house even, also i don't lock bicycle in village center. I'm surrounded by nice christian people and average looking cows. It's a paradise
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@retoor Don't trust those cows.
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@donkulator I share a SSH key with one of them
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@donkulator And don't trust the Chickens, you just know they're up to something...
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I think it's just psychological manipulation by phone manufacturers.
The battery gauges in cellphones are manipulated in a way to please our small monkey brains.
Battery charge and discharge is not linear, and if your gauge weren't manipulated, that last 4% would last 20 times more than the first 4%.
But since it's manipulated to show in a more linear way, it's likely the phone was on its last legs for real.
The arbitrary prohibition on the torch? Probably some random crapple-like decision to justify some retarded marketing point about battery life...
I mean, my lineage OS displays real battery charge and I've had the last 1% last for more than one hour. -
@CoreFusionX The limits can usually be switched off in the battery power usage settings, I didn't want to be a smart ass and point it out after such a good rant lol
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@bazmd I don't see such stuff but some nice stats tho. It's a Samsung. S10 or s20? I dunno. Nearly 2 years old, refurbished thingy. I don't buy new hardware anymore
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@retoor I'm the same, very HI-TEC but low-key on my own phone. I usually install apps manually if I need it, there are apps I've seen people use for the light feature that have ads, that's absolutely insane to me lol one of the Easiest apps you can build, I wonder if anyone has ever paid for a torch app?
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@bazmd Imagine paying monthly for a torch app. A while ago I found out that I had a subscription of an offline pdf scanner app. It was freaking 5 euro. Subscription must happen quite easy these days
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Fucking hell, why does the phone decide I can't use my last 4% of battery for the torch function? Fuckers, you can imagine that if the user does that, it's really needed right!? Give a warning or smth. It's not like that 4% is good for a phone call either. What's the point of that last 4% battery then.
I live in a park 5km from outside village center. When it gets dark in the middle of nowhere, it gets black, really black. So, I was cycling home and my bicycle light died. And halfway, it was almost completely dark so I wanted to use the torch on my phone so I could at least see if I'm still on the bicycle road. That's how dark it was and it fucking refused. But then - someone caught up from behind and could follow that person until my exit (one I would've never had found anymore) cycled a hundred meters in pitch black until I saw lights of the park. God dammit, fucked up experience. If that cyclist with light wasn't there, I would've had to walk and hoping I was walking in a straight line. Normally I already go before it gets that dark because bicycle light nearly isn't enough.
And that all, because those fuckers decide what you do with your last battery. Fuck you.
Same for headphone, if ten percent battery left, more than a hour, it starts beeping every minute. So I have to listen a hour that the battery is almost "dead"? Almost dead is 5 minutes left fuckers, not whole hour!
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