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At Glastonbury, the largest line inside is for the free phone charging. People queue for hours, a tragic waste of festival time. Wireless pads would make char

by tezza 3y ago

At Glastonbury, the largest line inside is for the free phone charging. People queue for hours, a tragic waste of festival time. Wireless pads would make charging times longer and hence the queues too. Camping / trekking you still want cables for speed of charge

UncleEntity 3y ago
> People queue for hours, a tragic waste of festival time. Back when I went to such things nobody carried around cellphones and didn’t have any less of an experience. We even had plans like “if anyone gets separated we’ll all meet up at the beer tent” because nobody wants to get left a couple hours from home because they didn’t pay attention to where the car was parked. Kids these days…
- ghaff 3y ago
  The idea that people would go to a festival and feel that their experience couldn't be complete without a smartphone or that, if they did feel that way, they wouldn't have made really sure that they had made backup plans for if their phone did run out of juice boggles my mind. People make themselves ridiculously dependent on devices that can run out of power, break, or get lost/stolen.
  - giantrobot 3y ago
    There's this new feature on some phones that might catch on. They have cameras. Now granted those cameras aren't great, they can only take 20MP photos in low light and record 4K video, but some people are using them as their main camera! It's pretty crazy. Some people that go to festivals or concerts take pictures so I guess for them a bad camera is better than no camera.
    - ghaff 3y ago
      It's still ridiculous to stand in a long line to charge your phone so you can take crappy photos or video instead of actually enjoying the festival. And smartphones are pretty crappy for concert-type photography. (People can obviously do whatever they want. I simply find that someone degrading their experience so they can take photos of some festival that probably has zillions of higher quality stills and footage online hard to understand.)

by tezza 3y ago

UncleEntity 3y ago

> People queue for hours, a tragic waste of festival time. Back when I went to such things nobody carried around cellphones and didn’t have any less of an experience. We even had plans like “if anyone gets separated we’ll all meet up at the beer tent” because nobody wants to get left a couple hours from home because they didn’t pay attention to where the car was parked. Kids these days…

ghaff 3y ago
The idea that people would go to a festival and feel that their experience couldn't be complete without a smartphone or that, if they did feel that way, they wouldn't have made really sure that they had made backup plans for if their phone did run out of juice boggles my mind. People make themselves ridiculously dependent on devices that can run out of power, break, or get lost/stolen.
- giantrobot 3y ago
  There's this new feature on some phones that might catch on. They have cameras. Now granted those cameras aren't great, they can only take 20MP photos in low light and record 4K video, but some people are using them as their main camera! It's pretty crazy. Some people that go to festivals or concerts take pictures so I guess for them a bad camera is better than no camera.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    It's still ridiculous to stand in a long line to charge your phone so you can take crappy photos or video instead of actually enjoying the festival. And smartphones are pretty crappy for concert-type photography. (People can obviously do whatever they want. I simply find that someone degrading their experience so they can take photos of some festival that probably has zillions of higher quality stills and footage online hard to understand.)