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Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by coastal-fiesta »

eloisius wrote: post #254

If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. That an app gets either cart blanche to send me notifications or nothing at all drives me crazy. I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior. Re…

I was so glad to see iOS offer the ability to grant apps access to a subset of your photo library, rather than your entire photo library or nothing at all. I hope they take this approach with notifications too.

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by needle0 »

"There could even be an option to hide the most distracting parts of an app, like Facebooks video tab"

The iPhone Facebook app DOES currently let you hide certain icons in the shortcut bar, including the Watch, Events, Groups, Profile, and Marketplace sections. https://www.howtogeek.com/509468/how-to-remove-icons-from-th...

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by needle0 »

pdimitar wrote: post #289

The problem with several of these is that most humans are in denial. - They will absolutely yell at their phone "YES, THIS TIME WAS WELL-SPENT!" even after an absolutely soul-crushing political "discussion" session that can only be equated to a real-life screaming contest with a bunch of others. And even with them feeling emotionally drained, angry and tired, they'll still say the time was well-spent. You know, sunk…

"Hiding certain sections like "Watch Now" is NEVER going to happen. Don't be delusional."

It's already available: https://www.howtogeek.com/509468/how-to-remove-icons-from-th...

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by matheusmoreira »

eloisius wrote: post #254

If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. That an app gets either cart blanche to send me notifications or nothing at all drives me crazy. I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior. Re…

This would be an amazing feature!!

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by matheusmoreira »

alickz wrote: post #300
eloisius wrote: post #254

If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. That an app gets either cart blanche to send me notifications or nothing at all drives me crazy. I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior. Re…

>I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior. This is exactly what the Android notification channels allow you to do, and it actually works really well. For UberEats I have the Delivery notification channel enabled, but the Marketing channel disabled. It's really the best of bo…

I've had apps which group all their advertising notifications under useful channels so that you can't disable their advertising without losing functionality. I've had apps create completely new channels out of nowhere in order to bypass my settings.

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by TylerE »

alistairSH wrote: post #328
scyzoryk_xyz wrote: post #231

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That’s because the internet is no longer a walk through the woods. It’s now a stumble through a confusing poorly-lit casino.

Well said. 100% agreement. Last year, I found myself in an unusually unhappy place. Partly COVID lockdowns, partly changes at work, partly politics (US resident). My wife noticed and told me to get off Facebook/Twitter/etc - they were making me visibly agitated. As I weaned myself off those platforms, my happiness and stress levels improved. I'm glad to be (mostly) off the platforms. It's been a massive improvement.…

> I unfriended anybody I didn't know in meatspace

I use Facebook basically the exact opposite way. I don't friend anyone I interact with on a regular basis (family, coworkers, neighbors), and use it exclusively for people I don't have another good way to keep up with - people I've met while traveling, people into the same niche hobbies, that sort of thing...

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by int_19h »

zuppy wrote: post #236
int_19h wrote: post #226

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> I don't think it's possible to do both of those things (stability vs hacking) in the same time Why is it not possible, exactly?

let me come back to you with a question: do you have an example where this works? being hackable means exactly the opposite of stability: you can change low level features and break things. if there is a chance to do it, people can be tricked to do it. of course, i'm excluding here people who have knowledge, as i continue to belive that they are a minority.

I know many people using Android devices, with no problem "getting tricked into" breaking things. And yet, on mine, I can easily enable side-loading, or even unlock the bootloader.

ChromeOS is a similar story - even more so, actually, given that it can run a full fledged Linux distro within the system.

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by user-the-name »

megous wrote: post #454
user-the-name wrote: post #268

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That is not creativity, that is just wanting to do things your specific way, which is a way most people do not really prefer.

There's no "my specific way". And people prefer to defer some things to me, because I can usually find some way to do tings in batches, rather than them doing those same things individually using common tools.

Again, though, that is not "creativity".

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by graphenus »

eloisius wrote: post #254

If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. That an app gets either cart blanche to send me notifications or nothing at all drives me crazy. I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior. Re…

What you probably really want is to see a choice right after ordering some food: "Enable foodpanda notifications?" with options "enable", "keep disabled", and "enable for 2 hours".

Re: iOS 15 Humane

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Post by mosselman »

tpm wrote: post #213
mosselman wrote: post #134

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Where are the parents? Who is giving kids phone instead of something else? Also, why should kids tinker with computers if they can explore art by painting or music by learning an instrument or literature by reading? What makes it important for them to use Unix rather than something that works fine the way it is while maintaining some standard of UX? If kids show an interest in computers, they can just install unix on…

> Where are the parents? Who is giving kids phone instead of something else? The parents might not know better. > Also, why should kids tinker with computers if they can explore art by painting or music by learning an instrument or literature by reading? They should be given the chance to do so, as they should be given the chance to explore art or craft or a lot of other things. > What makes it important for them to…

But they DO have the chance. They can boot some VM with Ubuntu or get a raspberry pi or a nodemcu and tinker away. They don't have to be able to tinker on EVERY device.

When my kids reach the age that they need a phone, probably sooner than I want to admit right now, I'd rather have them use some restricted device with some level of security checks in place for apps, so an iPhone, than something that is totally open which would make them vulnerable to being phished or persuaded to install viruses, etc. "Best way to play fortnite 10, download here".

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