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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
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
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