This isn’t a great metaphor. We don’t get energy from sleeping, and we probably only reduce our energy expenditure slightly during sleep compared to being awake. Sleep is our maintenance routine, especially for our brain. It’s used for cleaning waste products out of our brain, processing information from the day, creating and solidifying memories, consolidating learning we did, training for future fine motor tasks, and practicing for possible future events. It’s also important for healing and maintaining our immune system in many complex ways. Really we get two hours of fucking around/work time for each hour of self repair/maintenance we do. In the short term you can put off, reduce, or even skip maintenance, but we need to do it eventually or we die, or at least live much shorter lives.
Our charge to activity ratio can be mutch higher. You could easily chug a 3000 Calorie meal shake in 5-10 minutes, leaving the rest of your day for other stuff. That’s a ratio of around 144-288 activity/charge time.
I would pay good money to unlock fast charging mode.
The option is free but you may experience decreased performance and premature battery death
Edit: I forgot about the Cocaine and Caffeine aftermarket mod. Good performance but fries your processor.
Most fast charging modes aren’t really fast charging anyway, it just distorts the meter so it reads as “fully charged” and ends the charging cycle when the battery is still at 50% or less. That’s where most of the performance issues come from IMO, people thinking they’re on a full charge when they’re in power saving mode.
You gotta be born with it.
Ditto. Know such a person. They literally only sleep 4 hours a day and assume everyone else does despite massive lifelong evidence of the contrary.
They’ve resorted to working night shifts to avoid going insane from boredom, they sleep from 9AM to around 12-1PM every day, and then STAY AWAKE. IT’S BEEN DECADES.
I’m still wondering if they’ll die a premature death or if this’ll just pan out for them; the one thing I’ve noticed is their attention span got shot as they grew older, so maybe that’s the trade-off
I know such a guy. Survives on like 2 hours a day and was one of the most energetic people I’ve seen at 55 y.o.
I’m so fucking envious of these people.
Damn. Some people have all the luck.
Sure, but you would have to give up the fact that you can run a pretty large machine on nothing but twinkies and Mt Dew.
Great shower thought!
I have to admit this was actually a bedthought after getting 3 hours of sleep and trying to figure out how many hours of use I’ll get before entering low battery mode.
Just go to sleep when you start chirping like my smoke alarm.
Easy.
Instructions unclear, caused an 11 car collision on the highway.
You can easily get 3 hours for every hour of charging, even over extended periods of time. Although you might experience some issues with your CPU and RAM. And it can negatively impact the device lifespan.
Over short periods you can get away with even less charging. Although the CPU and RAM issues will get even worse.
There are also some fuel adjuvants that will increase your duty cycle in the short and mid term, but be careful because they can damage your filters and fuel lines and those are very expensive to replace if you can even find compatible hardware, which is a longshot.
EDIT: forgot to mention your fuel pump; people tend to overlook it until it gives out or gets clogged. That’s an expensive repair.
They do improve the issues some, but don’t solve them fully.
They also delay your human’s internal clock, which can make it more difficult to charge them during the next cycle.
oh yeah if your engine timing is off it can make the whole system run really rough, even if it’s in otherwise superb condition. That throws a lot of newbies who don’t understand why none of their performance tuning seems to have any effect.
Ah yes, the uberman charging block. More trouble than it’s worth when you factor in the software and hardware issues it causes.
The problem for me is that humans all come with a pre-set charging start time. Charging them before that time is damn near impossible. They just won’t start charging, unless they are already dangerously drained.
But I still need my human operational at 8 am.
I’m trying to change their internal clock forward every day. They synchronize to how much light they receive.
But that’s a lot of work. And I don’t really experience CPU and RAM issues unless I try to go over that 3/1 ratio
Unless you have long covid, then you’re lucky if you reach parity.
Exactly! You spend all day looking forward to going back to bed and then you wake up just as tired (and if you’re lucky your night has been repeatedly interrupted by waking up and being convinced you’re dying).
I only charge myself to 80% each time in a vain attempt to extend my feeble existence
…why?
Sleep isn’t even our power source (that would be food), it’s just our garbage collection routine. We leak so much memory that it can take a 3rd of a day to clean it all up. That’s how terribly inefficient we are.
I have about 4h of useful time in me after 8h of sleep. The rest is inefficient time spent.
I’m currently at roughly 2.5/1, but I’m not happy about it.
I ran above 3/1 for several years and I can’t recommend it, I spent most of that extra time trying to hack myself into charging mode, and the rest of it wishing I were properly charged and/or yearning for the deepest cycle charge. Now that I’m closer to 2/1 performance is significantly improved and the CPU sends deepest cycle charge requests a lot less frequently.
My yearly average is 3/1. I’m just trying not to get above that
No wonder I crash after 8 hours
Not when they have CFS.
