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Why is charging electronics such a problem? Do people wear watches while sleeping? Why is setting it on the charger on my nightstand actually a problem? This se
by clarky07 12y ago
Why is charging electronics such a problem? Do people wear watches while sleeping? Why is setting it on the charger on my nightstand actually a problem? This seems like an absurd nitpicky thing to complain about.
- milesokeefe 12y agoI wear my Pebble every night when sleeping. It's fantastic backup alarm, I never have to worry about forgetting to set my phone's alarm, not hearing my phone, my phone dying, etc. At this point I wouldn't go back to using a watch with less than a few days battery life, it takes out a huge part of the value for me.
- clarky07 12y agosee, and i have the opposite problem with my pebble. since it isn't part of my daily charging routine, it inevitably dies because i forget about charging it ever. I'd be better off including it my daily charging routine.
- kbd 12y ago> it inevitably dies because i forget about charging it ever How is that possible? It gives you ample low battery alerts.
- clarky07 12y agoeh the alert happens in the middle of the day when i'm not near my charger. since i'm not in the habit of charging it at night, sometimes i just forget about it.
- urda 12y agoI compare the awful mentality of "why do I have to charge X so many Y times?!" to the same result of modern cell phones. It wasn't that long ago that your cell phone could last days or more on a single charge. Now many people have the routine of just charging their phones at night. The world didn't end, things just progressed.
- happyscrappy 12y agoIt can last days if you turn everything off and use it as a dumb phone, but who wants to do that.
- brk 12y agoI already have to charge (and bring cables and charger with sufficient ports for): Laptop iPhone USB Backup battery (many long travel days) Wifi hotspot Pretty much every day. By some counts, a watch doesn't really change that very much, by other counts it pushes my daily-shit-to-charge list over the limit. It's nitpicky when viewed in a vacuum, but not in relation to the overall technology charging burden. It seems like we should be moving away from charger dependencies, not towards it.
- clarky07 12y agoi find it interesting that 5 is over the limit, but 4 is perfectly reasonable. Personally i have 1, my phone, and increasing it to 2 seems like no change at all personally.
- brk 12y agoSorry, to be clear, I don't consider 4 "reasonable". It's more like it's crept up and I've set a pretty hard limit on more rechargeable tech.