once a year I email my favorite flashlight manufacturer to ask if they’ve finally made a flashlight that just turns on and off when you push the button, and every year they’re like, “no, but thanks so much for your feedback!”

be honest, have any of you ever used the flashing feature on your flashlight? did it actually come in handy? handy enough that I have to scroll past it every single time I want to turn my flashlight on or off

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    The most logical programming is

    • Double tap for brightness level - cycles through low, med, high
    • Triple tap for sos - this whole setting is optional
    • Quadruple tap to reset to default
    • Single tap for on and off and it remembers last setting.
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      There’s nothing logical about that to me. Double/triple click? No one outside the flashlight community would have a clue how to use these lights (and I own a handful).

      Sequential click through low/med/high/off is intuitive.

      I have labels on some lights so people can use them. Imagine that, having to read a label to use a flashlight. Oh, that’ll be great in a power outage.

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        Do you just not read the user manual when you buy something? Thats how i learn how my lights work without being a flashlight nerd scouring forums.

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      Banging idea, love this.

      Only changes I would make is changing out the SOS for a five-second long-press, and changing reset to a ten-tap - to make sure people aren’t just fucking about turning it on and off.

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      see, one of mine is supposed to be almost that easy. you press the button normally to turn the light on and off, and it always remembers the last setting. then, you lightly press the power button to cycle through modes. the problem is, there’s no way to press the button hard without also pressing it soft first, so most of the time you’re cycling at the same time that you’re powering.