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Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

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258 points arnon | 4 comments | 21 Sep 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.084s | source

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codedokode ◴[21 Sep 25 13:39 UTC] No.45322645[source]▶
Sorry for being off-topic, but why with all the advanced technology today I have to manually copy ounces and pounds into Google to learn how much it is? Instead of adding dark themes and material design, it would be better to add a unit converter.

Also do you really need a power bank for a 2-day trip? In airplane mode a phone can live like 2 weeks.

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1. bschwindHN ◴[21 Sep 25 23:44 UTC] No.45327697[source]▶
On iOS:

Highlight text, select convert, see conversion:

https://imgur.com/a/tD9H1t9

But the real solution is for Americans to stop using dumb units.

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2. lethologica ◴[22 Sep 25 04:16 UTC] No.45329051[source]▶
Holy crap, I never knew that was a thing. Thank you!
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3. bschwindHN ◴[22 Sep 25 07:08 UTC] No.45330021[source]▶
If you have a mac as well, you can do these conversions in Spotlight.
4. shmeeed ◴[22 Sep 25 08:17 UTC] No.45330491[source]▶
On Pixel and Samsung:

Long press home button for "circle to search", draw line across text, see conversion.