Absolutely, as a slight counter to my ADHD and laziness. I find it harder to say "let me sleep fifteen more minutes" when the timer or alarm isn't a round number.
I set most of my timers using Siri and avoid 30, 40, 50, and 60 exactly because I can’t seem to emphasize “TY”in a way to distinguish it from “TEEN”. My wife needs to me to clarify those too, so it’s definitely a me problem, not a Siri problem. I instead go over or under a minute or two, depending on the task.
Yeah, i just pull the dial and let it settle where it settles. On my alarm clock my alarm will not go off if I set it to specific times like 7:30 so I usually do weird times in an attempt to get around that.
17 Comments
Ziglin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
You monster.
ByteMe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
That was my first thought
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
Absolutely, as a slight counter to my ADHD and laziness. I find it harder to say "let me sleep fifteen more minutes" when the timer or alarm isn't a round number.
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
I try to set it to seldom used numbers. It’s part of my fight to remain human in a conforming world.
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Good. You mustn't use up all the good numbers. The strange numbers will feel left out.
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
0 is very overrated
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y
Depends what I'm timing and what you consider weird.
valgarf@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
los_chill@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y
Some time numbers just feel better. :35, :28 good. :24, :17, bad. I can't explain it. It's like a color or a sound.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
for me that is the exact other way around
salmoura@lemmy.eco.br · 3 pts · 1y
That's textbook psychopathy.
Sumocat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I set most of my timers using Siri and avoid 30, 40, 50, and 60 exactly because I can’t seem to emphasize “TY”in a way to distinguish it from “TEEN”. My wife needs to me to clarify those too, so it’s definitely a me problem, not a Siri problem. I instead go over or under a minute or two, depending on the task.
jBoi@szmer.info · 3 pts · 1y
Yes. I have my alarm at exactly 6:18 - not one minute later or earlier.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
there are dozens of us!
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah, i just pull the dial and let it settle where it settles. On my alarm clock my alarm will not go off if I set it to specific times like 7:30 so I usually do weird times in an attempt to get around that.
justanotheruser4@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I set the minutes of my alarm clocks always on odd numbers