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> There really aren't that many people who need to throw a beam for half a kilometre or light up a football stadium with a flashlight. And for most people, a p
by Bartweiss 10y ago
> There really aren't that many people who need to throw a beam for half a kilometre or light up a football stadium with a flashlight.
And for most people, a product that can do that is substantially worse than one that can't. If you want a flashlight to play tag, walk the dog, or wander your house in a power outage, you probably can't use a dive-strength light.
We're finally hitting the point where even modest, internal-battery flashlights can be so powerful that they're painful to look at, and for most people you don't want to go any brighter than that.
- Dylan16807 10y agoThat's not a major problem. It's trivial to let it click to a different brightness, and then the battery will last all day.
- apk17 10y agoI wish. Flashlights tend to have all sorts of strange UIs, just like television firmware are just exploring the possible ways of being annoying. None of mine have both a way of getting full power fast /and/ deterministically turning it on on the lowest setting. (Except for the one that only has 'very bright' and where I first wondered why there is no rebound when I turn it on.)