> No. Nothing is an urgency. Except some things are.
If they're that urgent, your process is poorly designed.
Next time my wife calls me when she's crashed her bicycle and needs picking up I'll remind her to schedule it better.
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#23I've downloaded Universal Android Debloater and it changed how I used my phones.
If you have some extra phones lying around, convert them to single-purpose devices for yourself or your kids.
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#25Some people live their entire lives just looking for the next thing to get outraged about. What situation are you in where phone ringing is that much of a problem? Maybe work on extracting yourself from it rather than build a whole website asking the entire world to change in your favor?
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#26> No. Nothing is an urgency.
False.
There needs to be a break through "this is actually an emergency" way to get through silent mode. My wife keeps her phone silent at all times and on two separate occasions I have had actual emergencies and been unable to reach her. (A car crash where my car was totaled and a separate medical emergency) It's actually infuriating.
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#27I've turned my phone into a pull medium instead of a push medium (they're called 'push notifications' for a reason). Notifications jolt you out of whatever you're doing. I'm not in Vegas playing slot machines either. Those little red dot 'badges' are what gamblers enjoy, and I'm not some addict. I've turned them all off in iOS. Look for 'badges' in settings and turn them all off, including push notifications, for your own sanity.
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#28This starts off with "I chose..." and ends with "there should be a mandate"
It's very easy for people who wear pants to live a life where their phone is never switched off of vibrate mode and lives in their pocket. They will never need a noisy phone, and this is how I life my life.
My wife has pockets on about 10% of her clothes, and so typically her phone is in a purse, or on the table next to her. She will not notice it vibrating, thus, she uses the convenient for her feature where it audibly rings. My mother is the same way, but she uses hers so infrequently it simply sits plugged into a charger and works like an old landline. She also uses the ring feature.
Your own issues with noise (which I share many of, by the way) do not entitle you or I to request "mandates" that affect others negatively. The world's a big place and you have to learn to share it with other people.
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#29I support most of this, but the one thing I definitely want my phone to ring for is if I have a scheduled meeting on Zoom or some such. Missing those meetings or being more than a few minutes late always feels terrible, and it's so easy to do when I'm heads-down working on something. I would vehemently oppose a ban on public ringing for this reason--and also because it's needlessly authoritarian! If people want to ri…
On Mac I use this https://inyourface.app/
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#30If you pay for a phone number every month, those whom you gave the number can call you. Surprise!