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Looking at you, Uber, and my once-a-month ride somehow equating to 10 UberEats notices per day. Marketers -- you're on notice.
I disabled notifications for Uber years ago for ths, the first time I got a marketing push. It's your phone, and they can tell if you've disabled push. Tell them you're not ok with it.
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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.
If she has somewhere to be and didn't plan for a flat or other mechanical failure (as a result of a crash or something else), that process (schedule) was poorly designed.
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Next time my wife calls me when she's crashed her bicycle and needs picking up I'll remind her to schedule it better.
If she needs medical attention, she should call an ambulance. If she doesn't, it's not urgent. If she has somewhere to be and didn't plan for a flat or other mechanical failure (as a result of a crash or something else), that process (schedule) was poorly designed.
I may not need an ambulance, but I may appreciate a ride home. I may get a flat and be unable to fix it, ten miles from home. I may go for a run and need a ride after I tweak my knee. My kid may get norovirus at school and need to be picked up and taken to the doctor.
Trying to treat your life like a Jira ticket is slightly absurd. Pretending other people did something wrong because they don’t is ridiculous.
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…
Your wife's clothing choices are just that: her choices.
> The world's a big place and you have to learn to share it with other people.
Yes, it is, and one of the things you're supposed to learn is not to engage in public behaviors that annoy other people, just for your personal convenience.
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?
Unless you're an emergency physician or something, I can't actually think of one.
Also: you're grossly mistaken if you think the whole world annoys other people with their phones.
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Not to mention many of us live like this already without needing to proselytize it. Just Do It.
> To attempt to convert someone to one's own religious faith. About 175 occurrences per billion words at its peak in 2000, according to wolframalpha.
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…
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If she needs medical attention, she should call an ambulance. If she doesn't, it's not urgent. If she has somewhere to be and didn't plan for a flat or other mechanical failure (as a result of a crash or something else), that process (schedule) was poorly designed.
This is a shockingly asocial response. I may not need an ambulance, but I may appreciate a ride home. I may get a flat and be unable to fix it, ten miles from home. I may go for a run and need a ride after I tweak my knee. My kid may get norovirus at school and need to be picked up and taken to the doctor. Trying to treat your life like a Jira ticket is slightly absurd. Pretending other people did something wrong bec…
Honestly it seems like you're really stretching the meaning of "urgent" for online brownie points. People responding here really are trying to redefine "urgent" as a matter of personal preference or inconvenience. These blatant attempts are frankly shameful for a discussion community of this caliber. What makes things urgent is loss of life or limb or some other kind of serious trauma. Words mean things!
It's perfectly fine to want things and to be a little sad when bad things happen, but bad feelings do not urgency make.
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Both my wife and I have apple watches. The battery life is bad enough that you have to either charge it at night (and miss out on the sleep tracking features) or charge it during the day for an hour (and remember to go get it once it's charged). I know the newer near a thousand dollar models can get better battery life but my 2 year old version and her 5 year old version do not last much past 24 hours.
Other watchmakers have made very different design tradeoffs to produce better battery life. A base mode Garmin will happily run for over a week. The fancy models over a month. They still have great tracking and notification features. Might be worth a look when your current hardware no longer meets your needs. Explicitly trying not to pile on the “let me tell you how to manage your notifications” train by the way! Tha…
One caveat is that notifications are quite basic and there's no way to respond to them - it's push only. They also always get sent to the watch straight away even if they're set to notify once a day (this is probably an iPhone limitation - no idea how it works on Android).