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TotalLossBrain posted:Over the years, I've acquired the ability to wake up five minutes before any alarm I set goes off.  Unless I’m deathly ill, I’m not oversleeping.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Over the years, I've acquired the ability to wake up five minutes before any alarm I set goes off. For the longest time I had a clock radio that would wake me up to Radio 4’s Today programme. Shortly after 2015, I started waking up two minutes before my alarm because the sound of John Humphries interviewing another loving politician made me scream obscenities at the radio. Haven’t changed the tuning yet. I can’t stand music on the radio, and one day the news may be worth listening to again.
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Oct 7, 2020 13:55
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The least horrible 'alarm' I had was back when I was in an apartment the size of a broom closet and had a small coffee machine on a timer right next to my bed. You'd wake up to gurgling noises and the smell of freshly brewed coffee.
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Oct 7, 2020 14:48
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My memory of alarm clock radios is that's how I found out about 9/11. I had the radio station set to the local classic rock station, but that morning when it went off I was hearing Connie Chung's voice talking about a plane crash, and I was really confused, thinking I'd fallen asleep with the TV on, but I didn't have a TV in my bedroom... Now I use an app called AMdroid that makes me solve math problems or type complex phrases, prevents me from rebooting or powering off the phone, and checks again in a few minutes to verify I'm actually awake. If I don't say "yes" fast enough I have to do the puzzles all over again. I definitely sympathize with the idea of "no smartphone in the bedroom", but I think if you try to consistently follow that philosophy now you either end up going full Unibomber or realize it's practically impossible. Do you have a laptop in your bedroom? A smart tv? A modern video game console? A pc with a webcam? Alexa? I guess I've given up on my ideals. I still try to find dumb TVs, but that's because smart TVs suck. Otherwise I just reckon if anyone wants to hear my dumb conversations or see my fat butt, whatever, have fun. I should care and I guess I do, it just feels like the battle is already lost and trying to fight at this point would just be inconveniencing myself without effecting the larger picture. Imagined has a new favorite as of 15:56 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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Oct 7, 2020 15:43
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Imagined posted:I definitely sympathize with the idea of "no smartphone in the bedroom", but I think if you try to consistently follow that philosophy now you either end up going full Unibomber or realize it's practically impossible. Do you have a laptop in your bedroom? A smart tv? A modern video game console? A pc with a webcam? Alexa? I think the idea is to not let the phone be a distraction from falling asleep, especially considering the (possible) effect blue light has on sleep. That goes hand in hand with eliminating all sources of light in the bedroom, so all devices should be off or at the very least have their LEDs covered. A blackout curtain is also a worthwhile investment.
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Oct 7, 2020 16:04
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monolithburger posted:I have one of those alarm apps that makes you do mental mini-games in order to turn off the alarm. I am my own worst enemy. Putting a coffee maker on a timer sounds like a good idea though. Carrot, not stick.
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Oct 7, 2020 16:08
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I definitely agree with turning off the screens an hour or two before bed, and not sleeping with the TV or music on all night. I often fall asleep listening to an audiobook, but I set a sleep timer so it turns off by the time I've been asleep a few minutes. But "no smartphones in the bedroom" sounds more categorical than that.
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Oct 7, 2020 16:09
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Dick Trauma posted:Back in the '90s I worked at a place that offered an Apple discount, so I bought the TV expansion card for my Performa 631CD and used it to wake up to the Today show. For a little while it was like living in THE FUTURE! In the 90s when I got my Mac it was a different world, we had to go to a meeting at a Mac authorised seller, and make an appointment. It was me and my girlfriend, both of us clueless graphic design students, and we met up with a dude in a suit who insisted on showing us the great features of the Mac, he went on and on about voicemail and showed us it running on like a 33k dial up. Me and my GF had no mobiles, no answering machine at home and no loving clue what he was on about. He showed us this massive printer that was all beaten up, like it took up the whole side of the room and he told us that 'They bought this on credit for £50000 and then printed out the money to pay for it on it'  He said it was beaten up to poo poo because of the police raid it was in and that they had all gone down for counterfeiting
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Oct 7, 2020 17:46
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Imagined posted:I guess I've given up on my ideals. I still try to find dumb TVs, but that's because smart TVs suck. Otherwise I just reckon if anyone wants to hear my dumb conversations or see my fat butt, whatever, have fun. I should care and I guess I do, it just feels like the battle is already lost and trying to fight at this point would just be inconveniencing myself without effecting the larger picture. Exact same boat.   I finally got a big modern TV a few years ago, and my original intention was to not use any of its "smart" features, and treat it as a big dumb display for the little media PC that I plugged into it. And that's what I did... for like the first week. But it's so drat convenient to have everything built into the TV remote instead of needing to fiddle with the wireless keyboard/touchpad thing. So I guess my viewing habits are transmitted back to the LG mothership. Ah well.
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Oct 7, 2020 19:20
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Powered Descent posted:Exact same boat. I have a Sony TV and a PS3 and PS4 so if I need smart things I can just use the TV remote. Feels good, man.
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Oct 7, 2020 19:31
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These days I use my smartphone as an alarm. The default jingle is just obnoxious enough that it wakes me up.....most of the time.
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Oct 7, 2020 19:43
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90s Solo Cup posted:These days I use my smartphone as an alarm. The default jingle is just obnoxious enough that it wakes me up.....most of the time. I use my cock to wake me up. 
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Oct 7, 2020 19:45
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Humphreys posted:I have 4 alarms every morning, each for various levels of 'na gently caress off, not ready to get out' Same, various different songs of increasing loudness. And lemme tell you, Forever Turbo Cut Throat and Dandyon? They're good alarms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNUu6wSKPOA&hd=1
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Oct 7, 2020 20:31
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JnnyThndrs posted:I have one almost identical, but it doesn’t light up. It looks like an original. I wonder if you can get at the bulb and replace it? Probably worth a shot, right? It should be in the column bit on the left.
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Oct 7, 2020 22:34
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Moo the cow posted:Except after only a few weeks of use, I realised that morning radio was so facile that i couldn't stand hearing another jingle or a single word from the mouth of the presenter, so I retuned it and started waking up to the sound of static. I had mine set to the local college radio station, as it had a good strong signal. Until I realized that with bumbling teenagers running the station there was frequently dead air when my alarm was supposed to be going off. They say there's nothing louder than dead air, but I beg to differ.
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Oct 7, 2020 23:04
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I had mine set to the local college radio station, as it had a good strong signal. Try GBS-FM lol.
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Oct 7, 2020 23:07
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Try GBS-FM lol. jesus, does that still exist? I used to play it when I worked second shift 2005-2007, as it was YOUR station for Journey's "Chain Reaction" and the avant garde track "NO gently caress YOU DAD"
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Oct 8, 2020 00:45
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:jesus, does that still exist? I used to play it when I worked second shift 2005-2007, as it was YOUR station for Journey's "Chain Reaction" and the avant garde track "NO gently caress YOU DAD" 
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Oct 8, 2020 00:57
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Regarding being spied on by gadgets: I consider watching goons masturbating a cruel but fair punishment for the crimes of selling data. I bet this modern world is paradise for those people that are into being watched.
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Oct 8, 2020 07:52
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Manuel Calavera posted:Same, various different songs of increasing loudness. And lemme tell you, Forever Turbo Cut Throat and Dandyon? They're good alarms. I'd like to change alarm tone but I fear I won't wake up to a different one. I sleep very deep, have slept through a smoke alarm and been conditioned over the years to ignore songs after an exs alarm was a Taylor Swift song. That was a nightmare wakeup for multiple years. My current alarm tone is just a default on my Samsung phone, and the local birds outside have taken to it, mimicking it.
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Oct 8, 2020 09:03
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I have a small analog alarm clock that I set five minutes later in addition to my phone alarm if there's something really important I need to get up for. I use it seldom enough that I'm not conditioned to sleep through the signal.
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Oct 8, 2020 10:55
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I've basically stopped setting any alarms since my wife and I got a dog. She makes sure we're awake now. But even before that I've been at a point for a good long while that I just wake up naturally at pretty much the same time every morning.
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Oct 8, 2020 13:02
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I should also add that our bedroom is completely blacked out due to shiftwork routines, so natural Circadian Rhythm is not a thing we both have.
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Oct 8, 2020 13:18
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Phone on hard surface, vibration only.
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Oct 8, 2020 14:24
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End of the World as We Know It by REM as the alarm time on my phone, with a second copy 10 minutes later for if I cancel the alarm instead of snoozing. (I'm pretty good at getting up first go these days to be fair.) That little drum roll at the start is normally all it needs, and my fiancée fully times it out. Hers is the standard iPhone alarm.
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Oct 8, 2020 14:42
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I had a Motorola phone setup for alarm duties, but since it didn't really wake me up (I just got startled and I went back to sleep), I got one of those fancy Phillips light-up alarm clocks and it has worked so much better.
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Oct 8, 2020 15:08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOxLbvHFbh4 That's my alarm. It rarely has to repeat, but it's quiet enough that it doesn't wake up my wife.
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Oct 8, 2020 15:43
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Extension cord plugged into a timer with one end cut off and the bare wires taped to my nutsack. 
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Oct 8, 2020 17:13
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AFewBricksShy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOxLbvHFbh4 Broken is so awesome. My new alarm is the music from the movie Stalker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1QXKbhqr4&t=23s
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Oct 8, 2020 17:15
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AFewBricksShy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOxLbvHFbh4 A quiet alarm doesn't work for me, it has to be loud as gently caress and on the other side of the room for it to work in the long term.
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Oct 8, 2020 17:16
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just have kids and you'll never need an alarm again
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Oct 8, 2020 17:35
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My kid (7) is almost always still in bed when I leave for work in the morning, so ymmv. 2 stars, alarm clock is expensive and unreliable.
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Oct 8, 2020 17:53
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boar guy posted:just have kids and you'll never need an alarm again My 15-month-old sleeps for longer than I do. Long may this continue! My alarm and failed technology combination is that I have several digital watches which either make no noise or are incredibly quiet because I was dumb and lost the tiny springs which connect the alarm buzzer to the inside back of the case (probably when changing batteries) Need to find some suitable replacements but I suspect they are all subtly different...
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Oct 8, 2020 18:01
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since we had a child i can't sleep past 6 AM any more, is more what i meant. body just got used to being up
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Oct 8, 2020 18:06
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legooolas posted:My 15-month-old sleeps for longer than I do. Long may this continue! My 2.5 year old still has to be roused in the morning so I can get him dropped off at daycare on time. He goes to bed like a champ, too. I'm blessed, but he's going to be an absolute bear of a teenager if this continues.
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Oct 8, 2020 19:57
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Imagined posted:My kid (7) is almost always still in bed when I leave for work in the morning, so ymmv. 2 stars, alarm clock is expensive and unreliable. The return and refund policy/procedures are pretty unreasonable too.
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Oct 8, 2020 20:32
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Dick Trauma posted:Extension cord plugged into a timer with one end cut off and the bare wires taped to my nutsack. Username/post legit
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Oct 8, 2020 20:45
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Hirayuki posted:Oh, that's too bad. Yeah, it’s an oldie, I’ve collected a bunch of cool old clocks over the years. I’ll check the bulb - I never knew it was even supposed to light up until your post. 
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Oct 9, 2020 15:04
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The only alarm song you'll ever need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jlngD3OIXc
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Oct 16, 2020 06:33
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Try GBS-FM lol. Bees bees, a-bees bees. What was the one track with the audio from a shooting gallery, it was carnival music And it'd occasionally say "nice shootin', Tex." Or "Mighty fine shootin'!" I think I stopped listening around the time people endlessly cued up Jonathan Coulton's 'Code Monkey' and the song from Portal. This is wayyyyyy back from April, but I don't feel like I have much to post, so I figured I'd mention it. The discussion was about flexi disc records, the really thin ones you'd get in magazines or cereal boxes or whatever. Well, back in the day, people in the Soviet Union would create discs out of old x-rays: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-hipsters-bootlegged-banned-music-bone-records-180957505/ There was also talk about hidden tracks. Sister Machine Gun had a cover of The Doors' 'Strange Days' on Burn that was one of those before the first track. Course Of Empire had a pre track 1 song on Initiation. On that album they also had a track hidden within a track, where if you switched from stereo to mono, you'd here a different song (the stereo song could still be heard, just quiet enough to make out the mono track). I wish I knew how to rip those hidden tracks that come at the beginning of a CD. There's a bunch out there.
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