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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

why 10 though? Why not just, say, your smartphone?

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, I just got some and just… got more hahaha. Even my shittiest flashlights are way brighter than any smartphone’s LEDs.

I mainly keep them everywhere so I can quickly take important cat pictures. Shining the brighter ones at the ceiling makes for perfect lighting for indoor cat pics. I don’t like using flash on animals, and my I keep my room pretty dim. But gosh dangit cats are so cute.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

haha I guess their fur requires a special kind of lighting that I never thought about. I assumed funny internet cat pics were more moments of spontaneity than diligently prepared shooting sets hehe

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have about 6k photos on my phone and 80% of them are my cats being silly or adorable.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you have a serious problem and I love it

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. It’s worse than you think. I’ve recently uploaded 20,000 photos to my laptop… which now has about 30k photos on it. A majority of those are of my cats. The quantity exploded when we got baby kittens.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

10,000 years from now, once they dig out the digital backups and find your strangely well-preserved collection. They will immediately assume from the sheer proportion of photos of yourself vs your cats, that cats were the dominant life form who kept humans around as pets

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

They would be very correct.