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#poll #smartphone
| yes, it's convenient: | 30 |
| yes, but want to stop using: | 11 |
| no, i use a dumbphone: | 4 |
| no, i don't have a phone: | 1 |
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I chose my "smartphone" with care…a Unihertz Jelly model running Android. The screen is small enough that it's particularly uncomfortable to use interactively¹ for any length of time. So while I can use it in a pinch to make calls, text, send a quick email reminder to myself, check the weather, or check a todo list shared with my sweetheart, or even use termux+SSH to log into a remote host for urgent issues…I have no interest in staring at it endlessly
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¹ but it's fine for listening to podcasts where I push Play and then turn off the screen
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I charge it to "full" (you can set a configurable threshold to help save battery life, so I have mine set to 90% as the target) overnight, take it off the charger when I get up (between 5:00–6:00am most days), and it's usually down to somewhere in the 30–50% range when I put it back on the charger before turning in for bed ~9:30–10:30pm
But usage definitely makes a difference—occasionally VLC will wander into the weeds and do _something_ (I'm not demanding anything atypical with my very boring playback habits) that lights up the CPU, makes the phone hot, and burns battery like crazy. Sometimes quitting VLC is enough to get it to chill out; sometimes it's easier to reboot the phone to impart some chill, then put it on the charger for a spell and let it recover the battery over-consumption.
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