We are but I’m gonna have my phone on vibrate cuz I have a shred of self awareness
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NastyNative@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Thats cause they old and cant hear shit…. We are all headed that way.
frank@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
NastyNative@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
My dad will not feel the phone vibrate… it sucks getting old. I have tried it all with him even with the loud ring tone still doesnt hear it.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
Yeah I’m not a boomer but sometimes I don’t feel the vibration, especially if I’m wearing looser clothes. But if I have it on vibrate all the time I also start getting phantom vibrations when nothing actually happened. Sometimes when my phone isn’t even in my pocket, I’ll think I got a vibration notification.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
So? Put it on vibrate.
limelight79@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I don’t know about other people, but I often miss vibration notifications. If I’m doing basically anything at all, even just walking, it’s a good bet I’ll miss it. The pattern of vibration, etc., doesn’t seem to make much difference, either. I basically to be doing nothing before I’ll detect it. This has been true of every phone I’ve had - flip phones, iPhones, and Androids. I keep it in a front pocket, too, so it seems like that should work.
I still use vibrate all the time. If there’s something I’m specifically waiting for that I don’t want to miss, I’ll turn on the sound.
michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I set the notifications to vibrate and set a ringtone for all calls.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Same. I also get phantom vibrations sometimes so it’s a toss up for me.
limelight79@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yeah, there are times when I’m like, “Aha! It’s definitely vibrating now!” Pull it out of my pocket and look, no notifications or anything.
dingus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Do you think it’s a modern phone thing? I used to always be able to feel my phone vibrating. But when I got a new phone several years back, I was frustrated to find that I couldn’t feel the damn thing vibrating in my pocket and I’d miss calls and texts.
limelight79@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I always thought it was just me, but maybe not. In the push to make everything smaller to cram more in, maybe the weight they use to generate the vibrations is just too small.
leadore@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Same, if I’m walking around outside with it in my pocket, I don’t notice the vibration or even hear it ring over the background noise and wind.
Mbourgon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
women’s pants typically don’t have pockets, so you’d get NO notification.
NastyNative@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Vibrate is worst than ringing for him.