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> 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.
Is it really that weird? I mean we use to have stores selling ringtones 10-15 years ago and Crazy Frog was climbing the charts [1]. Things have changed, and at least where I leave, most phones around me are permanently kept on vibration mode. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they're that urgent, your process is poorly designed.
Life is poorly designed. Kid had an accident, gotta go to the hospital? Of course that call is urgent. Even at work, there are things that really are urgent. But those shouldn't occur often, otherwise you would be right, poorly designed process.
For me distraction isn't so much about _when_ my phone requires my attention. It's about how long I ultimately end up thinking about my phone, which invariably is more time I opt to "poll" for notifications, as opposed to get a phone call "pushed" on me.
This has been a constant bit of friction between my wife and I. To me, the norms are: - 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 t…
> Discord chat if it's just casual messaging or pics It's interesting to me that discord has become a "default" for you. For my social group, discord is only used for people I only have an online presence with. If I want to do something IRL, I send an SMS or something.
I'd prefer a phone that zapped me.
This 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 noti…
Is this a really problem? It's vanishingly rare in my experience to here a phone ring these days. Rude people intentionally playing music or other media without headphones is a much larger but still rare phenomenon.
I don't know if its a problem but awareness can't hurt.
This 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 noti…
One disgusting trend I see with many phone apps is notification spam with no fine-grained option to disable them without potentially disabling transactional notifications. Ride-sharing and delivery apps are particularly annoying for this. I remember the time when phone OSes did not have notification categories but it’s not a useful feature if app developers don’t implement them.
Looking at you, Uber, and my once-a-month ride somehow equating to 10 UberEats notices per day. Marketers -- you're on notice.
Another useful feature for me is an app to customize the LED lights, so I can assign different colors and blink rates for different apps and different types of notifications.
These two things really make me feel like I'm in full control, and make my phone experience infinitely better.