The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back
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Late to the party, then. Most people I know disabled them a decade ago and didnt look back.
Been on silent for over a decade too, but in an outlier and friends phones are so damn annoying.
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Removing Google Play Services did the trick for me. No more marketing notifications, just bliss and essential notifs from foss apps that don't use Google. No more compromise with these fucking corps.
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Own your notifications or they will surely own you.
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I changed mine to all calls after a friend called 2am from a cell and I didn't get it. Still only certain texts though
Should have it set to repeated calls from any number ring through.
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Seems a lot of comments are arguing about this as if it's an all-or-nothing. I use a dumbphone (for many reasons), but even it allows me to configure DND settings to allow certain phone numbers to audibly ring through. Surely smartphones can do the same? I find being with someone whose phone is constantly making noises to be very irritating--and more so if they interrupt our conversation to check it every time.
My not-so-dumb flip phone also has 3 indicator lights on the closed cover -- red if battery is low, a green envelope if I have a message or other notification, and a blue phone if I've had a call (even those can be disabled). So I don't have to touch it or do anything other than glance in its direction to know I have a message. "Smart" phones can do such simple things as this, can't they?
I miss blinkenlights on smartphones. They went out of style circa 2015, and now all you get is the screen turning on momentarily, or some variant of a dim always-on view that wastes battery.
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Tbh suddenly changing skin color is nothing normal for humans
And it's great my buddy's first thought was that my dad lived a block away and is a doctor.
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I miss blinkenlights on smartphones. They went out of style circa 2015, and now all you get is the screen turning on momentarily, or some variant of a dim always-on view that wastes battery.
They don't blink except for the red one when it's charging and stops when it's full. The notification ones are solid. Yes, they are really nice to have!
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Late to the party, then. Most people I know disabled them a decade ago and didnt look back.
Good for you. Unfortunately that's not the case with most people, or else it wouldn't be an article
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Good for you. Unfortunately that's not the case with most people, or else it wouldn't be an article
Yeah, it IS good for me. Sorry you're only just now figuring this out.
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I use signal too, exclusively apart from sms or the rare iMessage my grandparents send. It’s been fine. I can’t recall if it was app setting or it just works(tm), but I get no sounds, and still get notifications so I can check them when I have the time and energy to deal with all that.
Ofc I can set it like that for the whole app but does it allow phone calls to get through?
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Tbh not surprised. In 2012 I got my first smartphone, it ran Android. At first I thought it was just like a PC. Within half an hour I was fed up at how useless it was.
Can't even open a terminal window and apt install apache, what a load of junk.
Tried a pinephone and that is almost perfect but it struggled with SMS. If that was more reliable I think it would be the perfect phone.
Same. My first "smart"phone was a Nokia N95 and I had so much excitement back then
Then I realized: hey man, I can't actually do anything that I need to do on this thing..
But at least it takes really nice photos? -
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