I wish r/fleshlight was this wholesome.

MFW the roofers came to inspect a leak a couple of weeks ago and the kid turned on his phone's light before climbing into the attic.

Me after lending the kid my 3000 lumens pocket flashlight.

I get excited when my solar/battery setup seamlessly deals with short power outages. That $35k I spent years ago really pays off so I don’t need to wait 5 mins before browsing memes.

As a Kyiv resident: no, you don't want power outages. It's less fun after the 10th time in a week.

My wife thought it was dumb when I picked up a lockpick set to play around with. Didn't think it was so stupid when we accidentally locked our keys inside when house sitting and I actually managed to pick the lock.

That's my problem with EDC. I love the idea of being prepared for any eventually, but all my realistic eventualities boil down to how I'm going to pay for something, or how sunny it's going to be.

I get it. This summer I bought a battery bank and portable solar panels so I can a) take some load off a circuit that is overtaxed in the summer and b) be able to very slowly charge the car in the event of an emergency.

A month after getting it, we got a notice on our door that they were working on poles and our power would be out for 8 hours. I kept my whole homelab, and refrigerator running the whole time and the entertainment center running most of the time. Any thought that I spent too much, given the probable utility, immediately disappeared. I wouldn't call it pride in my decision, but it came damn close.

I was walking at a festival around 2010, maybe 20m behind a group of kids who had flashlights and headlamps. I wanted to have my light going in case they turned and walked a different path or whatnot. I turn it on normal-beam and they all stop and exclaim to each other about how crazy the light behind them was. I felt sooooooo happy! They all wanted to check it out and were astounded it does so many things. I felt like the coolest gurl in the land!

These guys are going to love the apocalypse.

Ive said it before: do you want to be the grumpy, antisocial prepper that eats beans in his (yes, almost exclusively his) bunker until radiation poisoning finally gets him?

Or do you want to be the hero of the neighbourhood, who has a solar-powered stove to heat up the baby milk for cute single mother next door?

Being able to smugly utilize the thing that people always ask why you carry around is one of the best feelings there is.

one of the major beefs I have with sci-fi is just how crappy the torches are both in what's meant to be the modern day and the future

Can we bring this kind of energy to Lemmy? Pretty please?

"It's your time to shine."

"Other people will look up to you and will be able to tell the time."

"An enlightening experience."

"A bright idea, if I may say so myself."

"With great brightness comes great visibility."

"Your ability to illuminate a situation is truly outstanding."

"You are the light at the end of my tunnel."

"Don't take this lightly when I say you're brilliant."

I built what is basically a smart plug, but it uses 4G connectivity instead of my standard WiFi. The idea is that if my home network screws up and I need to reboot my router and modem, I can still do that remotely. There have been 2 times in my life that I really wished I had this set up because my Plex server was down while I was traveling. The ideal scenario is that I never have to use the thing, but whenever I see this flashlight post, it reminds me that I kinda do want to need it just once.

I'll honestly say that I thought flashlights were flashlights for the longest time. Like, sure, some are brighter, whatever. I finally picked up one from a recommended thread and when I got it I was floored at the quality difference. I immediately went and bought a 2nd one that day.

I got to make use of my Swiss army knife at work. With the fucking awl! I and I alone knew what it was capable of.

When the early bright white LEDs came out (not the ultra-packages) I got my father a photon keychain microlight.

He was working dozer/fire duty with a coworker. They were back deep in the woods investigating. Their regular flashlight bulb burned out. It was after midnight, completely overcast, no moon, rural, Dark AF. They stumbled in the dark trying to get back to the truck. It was the early 2000s, they didn't carry cell phones or pagers. Dad remembered he had a keychain light. "We came out of there, about five miles, with that little light, we took turns smashing the button. both our fingers hurt, but we made it out" Yeah, dad, they have a little lock on the front, that holds the button down if you need that :)

Hmm... This is one of the first posts I see the day I get my internets back after getting blown away in the hurricane last week.