Consolidation Damage
I just got a new alarm clock and haven't used my phone since. It's a bit unreliable, doesnt have a snooze function, and the sound is a shrill cry, but I love her anyway.
All I want is a reliable alarm clock that isnt a fucking app or sony’s bizarre “dream machine” that can’t fucking keep time.
My dad is still using his same one from the
70s80s as far as i know. Yeah you know the one.Got the truncated version without the radio, just the clock half, faux wood grain, all that. Took me awhile to land the perfect one at a thrift store, but it should last until Ragnarök.
For the alarm part, "Hey Google, set alarm to $x." (I mounted minis in all my ceilings for convenience and music.)
MREET! MREET! MREET! MREET!
The analog one with 2 bells that never keeps accurate time? Or the horizontal one with the radio and the flappy, rolodex-shaped parts that display the time?
I have that clock that projects the time onto the ceiling. It's the best!
Me too. Just got it recently. I thought it would be a gimmick and maybe it is. But I love it.
It's so nice to wake up in the night, barely open one eye, and know what time it is. Once you get used to it, you'll miss it when you travel. My FIL had a small folding travel one.
About a year ago I got one of those alarm clocks that slowly light up to simulate the sun rise, and that's been a game changer. I wake up so much easier and feel less groggy when I do.
Highly recommend
As were many consumer electronics, radios, walkmans, calculators, landline phones, etc.
Get your own shower thought, dude.
Jk
I will add, of all the things, alarm clocks seem like they deserved it the least. They did one thing and they were fine at it.
Fine is the right term for this. The alarm clocks were not great, not terrible. They were just fine.
You couldn't adjust the sound volume or the sound they make. In the later years of alarm clocks, you did have some fancy lamp-radio-alarm-hybrid devices that did have some settings. However, they were woefully inadequate for my needs, so I was stuck with a solution that was nothing more than fine.
Enter mobile phones and their ability to play any mp3 file. My life changed! I made a custom sound that starts gently instead of jumping straight to the RUN OR DIE -stage we've sadly grown accustomed to in the past decades. IMO a mobile phone alarm is orders of magnitude superior to any alarm clock I've ever seen.
I have an alarm clock / noise machine combo and I love it. I prefer a phone-free bedroom to reduce distraction opportunities. I also completely agree that phone wake-up sounds are just far too aggressive. All it takes for me to wake up is having it change from “brown noise” to “ocean waves” and I’m awake immediately.
I have a Sony Dream Machine CD clock radio. I can wake up to CD's. It's pretty cool. I hope it lasts forever.
Narriator: It broke the next day.
I would actually cry
me and the rest of the ADHD gang keeping the alarm clock market on life support because a phone alarm is too easy to turn off in your sleep:
Plus keeping the phone far from bed is always a good idea.
I keep my phone on the opposite side of the room so I can’t turn off the alarm without getting out of bed.
The Smartphone Wars, when Nokia bombardments were a daily reality! Rough times...
That's also how the alarm clocks were wiped out! It was a massacre...
I'm just thankful we were able to negotiate peace. Though, we could have done better the data plan.
OMG that ringtone is stuck in my head now.
Yes, that was their incoming shriek, you'd hear a Doppler of the Nokia ringtone, then it started raining bricks!
You know what I miss? Answering Machines.
I'm tired of voice mail. I want my "voice mail" to live ON the phone and be provided by an app.
I don't see why this couldn't be done with an app.... though I'm not an app developer... So what do I know.
Modern voicemail isn't done on device like it was with an answering machine. Instead of your machine picking up, your telecom provider does, so you're no longer actually receiving a call, they are. Theoretically you could have it pick up a ring before your telecom does, but then you'd have 2 mailboxes and if you're offline the call would go to your provider's box.
This is even the case for landlines nowadays. I had to setup a new phone for a lady and Comcast was snagging the call before her machine would. Had to change it to pickup before they did.
I had a pay-as-you-go Nokia from an overseas trip that was perfect as a nonfunctional phone/alarm clock when I got home because it announced the time. Hit snooze at 8am and next alarm it’d say “the time is 8:10” and then do the noise.
I never stopped having an alarm clock. It stopped being the alarm but remained the bedroom clock.
One tyrant rose up and overthrew another. Ordinary people like us were left to carry the cost.
