something's wrong, I can feel it

"Oh, shit, why do I feel rested!?"

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Oh, that's right, I got on medication half a decade ago now.
It's like reverse nightmares lol.

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)
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
so you can keep your phone away from your bed to improve sleep quality
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....

Meanwhile me: wakes up 20 minutes before my alarm every morning, needing to pee: "another morning, another bathroom, another power nap"

Happened to me today. Turns out MIUI optimized the Clock app.

I allowed it to autostart, I disabled battery optimization, I locked it in recent apps.
It may still occur.
But hey, I only woke up 30 minutes later. "Something isn't right."

I loved how my xiaomi went EOL after a major update that broke receiving calls, also the battery saver thing.
Never buying anything off them again, especially after GDPR notifications on everything, like why the fuck do you need this data (I know. Xi Jinping wants to know the good furry fetish porn)
/rant
- just don't use the official ROMs? this applies for every device btw, OEMs are not to be trusted
- Sounds like my Moto G5s Plus. I updated it to Android 8.1 and it started having issues like lagging, completely freezing up, randomly restarting, battery drain, overheating, etc.
  Oh, well. It ran PixelExperience 11 just fine. It also allowed me to use the notification LED that Motorola disabled in software for reasons unknown.
  Edit: I just like this part from bootloader unlock license agreement on what doing so may cause:
  Cause the Device to overheat, explode and/or catch fire, exceed SAR values, exceed safe volume settings, and otherwise be unsafe, including creating the potential to cause serious bodily injury, including death