Context: This is the second year I’ve been trying to hit 69% battery at 4:20 on 4/20.

It’s stupid and juvenile, but I’ve set a goal, damn it, and now I have to wait another year to try again. 😆

  • @[email protected]
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    402 months ago

    I’m just here because you’re giving Voyager the love she deserves. God I love that ship.

  • @[email protected]
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    172 months ago

    If at first you don’t succeed, change your time zone!

    Also can I please have a link to the voyager wallpaper?

  • @[email protected]
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    132 months ago

    Maybe you can go back in time with some kemocite and by venting warp plasma into the cargo bay and catch it at the right moment.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Then once you do that find a spatial anomaly that causes a time loop so you can keep trying till you get it.

  • @akilou
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    122 months ago

    You should go down below 69% and then charge back up to it close to 4:20

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      102 months ago

      Heh, yeah. I tried. Was on a long call earlier and was pacing, so couldn’t keep it on charge. Had to get back up from about 44% at 3:45. I even cranked the brightness, turned on all the wireless radios, and tried to drop it by 1% before the minute ticked over, but to no avail.

      Ah, well. Try again next year. lol

      • JackGreenEarth
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        92 months ago

        Sure, that, rather than changing your phone’s clock. But I guess you want to do it legitimately.

      • andrew
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        32 months ago

        3DMark or some other benchmark utility might help next time.

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      82 months ago

      Bout as good as having T-Mobile (uses their network). Will definitely vary from place to place, though. Kinda “meh” here since they mostly use band 66 for large cells which has pretty crap penetration into buildings.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        since they mostly use band 66 for large cells which has pretty crap penetration into buildings.

        Huh, good to know there’s an explanation for why I was getting no signal inside my home when I was on T-Mobile. It’s the reason I switched.

        • Admiral PatrickOP
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          22 months ago

          T-Mobile uses a lot of different bands, depending on the coverage area. Some areas are on 700 Mhz, others on higher PCS bands (former Sprint bands). I used www.cellmapper.net to see what frequencies were used and confirmed with LTE Discovery app on my phone.

          In my case, it was band 66 for a fairly large cell. I’ve also got a brick house, so that doesn’t help. AT&T’s 800 Mhz band worked well here but they were jerking around my plan so I switched to Mint.

          • cheesymoonshadow
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            22 months ago

            I don’t understand any of that, but I’m about to move into a brick house and now I’m wondering if my cell signal is going to suffer.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      My wife used Mint Mobile from 2018 until 2022 and really liked it. We moved in 2022 and unfortunately our new place had very poor T-Mobile coverage so we had to switch, otherwise we’d still be using them. She switched to US Mobile which give you a choice of using T-Mobile or Verizon.

      They’re QCI 7 rather than QCI 6 though, which basically means they’re considered lower priority on the T-Mobile network. If there’s congestion (not enough network bandwidth for everyone that wants to use it), customers on QCI 6 are given priority. Every MVNO except for Google Fi is QCI 7, while Google Fi and most plans directly through T-Mobile are QCI 6.

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      182 months ago

      Nah, lol, going for an honest triple word score. Has to be legit. 😀

  • @[email protected]
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    82 months ago

    Don’t worry, the Alpha quadrant is stil decades of opportunities years to get it right.

    And to double the chances “7/9” (September? July?) date is a valid choice too.

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      2 months ago

      My phone is way too ancient for that to be an option, but I’m trying to actually upgrade this year, so 🤞 for that being an option next year. But I’m also trying not to cheat (too much lol)

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          I miss when custom ROMs were easier. Practically every phone with Windows Mobile supported custom ROMs. I tried a lot of custom Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0 and 6.5 ROMs back in the day. It was pretty straightforward on older Android, too.

          These days, it seems like so many phones are locked down, for example with a locked bootloader. It’s so dumb. If I paid for my phone, I should be able to do whatever I want with it. Why even some tech-savvy people are comfortable with being limited in terms of what they can do with their expensive devices, I’ll never know.