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Some 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?
> The ideal solution should be a mandate to ban all loud phone sounds in public. Loud breathing is still ok? Really weird hill to die on.
> 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.
I prefer to have my phone on silent, and I often leave my home without my phone if I don't have any on-call commitments or whatever. I don't like being constantly connected, but that's a small problem for me to work through and not anyone else.
Some 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?
Not to mention many of us live like this already without needing to proselytize it. Just Do It.
About 175 occurrences per billion words at its peak in 2000, according to wolframalpha.
It’s quite relaxing, to be in control of when I do specific tasks like check notifications and call people back. If you find yourself overwhelmed I recommend trying this out.
The problem I see that spam calls goes directly to phone. I would like them never to even reach my phone. Like a spam filter on a server, rather than on the client. I would want more control over this.
- Unscheduled calls are if it's an emergency or something that you need an answer to right now
- Calling twice in a row is an emergency
- SMS if it's important but not urgent
- Discord chat if it's just casual messaging or pics
This is how my family and everyone else I know communicate, but my wife. My wife will call me repeatedly to tell me that they just got out of work and are going to the store. It really doesn't help that the bluetooth in their car is trash too, so answering the call is rewards you with feedback hell. It gets me in the habit of not dropping everything to answer their calls if it's around when they get out of work, which has bitten us twice when they couldn't get a hold of me for a bit when they had car trouble and needed a rescue.
To me, personal calls operate on a reputation system since you don't know what they will be about until you're already answering them. If you burn that rep on calls that don't matter, all someone will think the next time they see you on caller id is that it can wait.