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The thing about a small knife and a little flashlight is that you don’t actually think about how many times it would be nice to have one of those things “right there right now” until you start carrying them. But a cheap little $15 flashlight that can clip onto your pocket and give it a try for a couple weeks, and you’ll start to notice how convenient it can be every time you want to check something in a darker area. It’s faster, brighter, and smaller than the light on your phone. This “WARSUN T7PRO Pocket Flashlight” is only $10 on amazon. It’s not the greatest but you’ll get the idea of always having instant light.
I just keep mine clipped inside the outer edge of my back pocket and the only time I ever notice it is when in sitting in a car. The length has never bugged me. I’m not sure how long it will last before dying aside from what they advertise it as. I’ve never had it run out on me, but I usually always charge it when it gets to like half.
Olight is a Chinese company, but they have real warranty\sales offices in other places. There’s one in the US, for instance. Which is nice, because their arklights have a lifetime warranty, and that includes the battery. Obviously, the battery will eventually go bad and need to be replaced.
Pffft. Those suck so hard compared to my edc flashlight.
I’m a firefighter\emt. I’ve gotten to pick Sooo many door locks over the years and it’s saved a lot of people a lot of money and headache for it.
Anytime someone has “fallen and can’t get up” in their locked house, but says they aren’t injured, I’ll pick my way in, instead of us having to break a door or window just because they need help off the floor.
If I leave my house, my edc flashlight is on me, and I literally have a use for it every day. I used it probably 4 different times today. It’s kind of astounding how many times you could use a lil extra light real quick, even if you could sort of not need the light. Like when I was checking under my car seat today. I could sort of see under there without a light, but since I had the light right there in my pocket, I used it, and it made it way easier.
I got the Olight Ark Pro ultra in limited edition Zombie color as my edc light. I absolutely love that thing. Gets more use than my pocket knife. It’s just the best.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Games@lemmy.world•AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It RunningEnglish
0·9 days agoYou joke, but I run localized AI on my cell phone. The game looks very graphically simple, so really, it shouldn’t be too demanding for a smaller AI data set to respond fast enough.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure: A $20 billion setback.English
0·9 days agoAll the AI companies know it. The first to get caught out about it will stand to lose the most funding.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Games@lemmy.world•AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It RunningEnglish
0·9 days agoWhat makes you think that the demo just got massively more popular than expected? This is probably an occam’s razor type of thing.
I’m more curious about how they were planning on structuring the full game to make a profit. Hopefully they’re just planning on using a client side ai, but that would likely make the demo somewhat deceitful.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Technology@lemmy.world•GM Admits It Needs Hybrids Again: 'We're Not Tone Deaf'English
0·10 days agoThat’s pretty insane and awesome. I’m surprised I missed this. I love “driving 4 answers”. That guy is awesome.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Technology@lemmy.world•GM Admits It Needs Hybrids Again: 'We're Not Tone Deaf'English
0·10 days agoA plug in hybrid and for a certain distance, I’d presume. You can’t really get 104mpg on a highway with a normal hybrid. I at least can’t really imagine it exists.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•time to starr shootin some AI execs
0·12 days agoWe can also buy from private parties and there’s zero restrictions. Problem is we have it that way because they should be getting used right about now…
The blank spot needs replaced with a meat grinder.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI botsEnglish
0·17 days agoYeah, if I want yoyo stuff, I have to go visit r\throwers.
Pretty much the same if I need mechanic info.
Yeah. It’s not all emotional damage. Lol
The spot on his back just before his tail looks like fair game. My kitty also likes that spot, but mostly wants face pets.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Technology@lemmy.world•‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AIEnglish
0·25 days agoI miss the actual old Google, where the searches wouldn’t intentionally show you a lot of things you don’t want in order to keep you searching longer for their ad revenue. The one where if you put something between “quotes” it would only show you results with those specific words, and you coul -minus a word to specifically exclude results that contained that word.
Google has been a piece of shit for like 15+ years now. They’re even making android suck.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Technology@lemmy.world•Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridgesEnglish
0·25 days agoAlso, don’t get Samsung appliances. They’ve always been utter trash. Washers, dryers, fridges, and dishwashers all suck.

Lol. That’s for the fires or a particularly strong door on a med call that’s an actual emergency. Most of the time a smack or two with the shoulder will knock open a locked door.