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.
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
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.
No wonder I crash after 8 hours
Not when they have CFS.
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.
