Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨baggachipz@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

Like, what the fuck. Waiting rooms, libraries, movie theaters, on and on. That same fucking Samsung notification sound, at volume 11/10. For every notification every 20 seconds as Fox/CNN/QVC forces more and more bullshit on you and therefore us. Do you not know that you’re pissing everyone off? Do you not care? I hope it’s because you’re too stupid to turn off sound notifications, but the high volume suggests that you like it and want more. Your generation was the one making us be quiet in public spaces and now you ruin them for everybody. Seriously, fuck you.

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elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t think this post is a good fit. The name of the community is “mildly infuriating”, not “absolutely enraging”!

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AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Its not just notifications. Its also them watching entire videos at high volume in waiting rooms, ads and everything. That or its endless scrolling and completely unrelated audio blasts chained together doing literal psychic damage to everyone around.

It drives me fucking NUTS. The worst part is they’re the ones that will be the first to complain about kids these days being glued to their phones.

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- PiecePractical@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  OMG my dad does this while I’m on the phone with him. If I had a dollar for every time I had to tell him to turn off the video on his phone so I could hear him…
  
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  - Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I would end the call at that point.
    
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- Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  It drives me fucking NUTS. The worst part is they’re the ones that will be the first to complain about kids these days being glued to their phones.
  
  My dad used to call us the “No-frendo” generation. Nowadays I have to remind him constantly how rude it is to have you phone out at dinner, for example.
  
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- leadore@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Not to mention that all the waiting rooms also have TVs in them, making noise. I really miss the days when you would go places and it was just quiet unless someone was talking (and it would be to someone physically present). The place I take my car for an oil change or whatever plays country music in its waiting room. It’s torture.
  
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perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m going to start a community called, UnnecessarilyGenerational. This would be post #1.

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- dumbass@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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- AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  My first thought was “How is this a boomer thing, I see people of all ages doing this.”
  
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- sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Typical zoomer reaction
  
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- GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Fucking boomers and their Samsung phones. Why can’t they just be like us Millennials and our Apple iPhones? 😤
  
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- Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s actually not a bad idea!
  
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westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
For the record, not a boomer, but why are you targeting that group? Everywhere I go it is someone, just as often young as old, that thinks I want to hear their notifications, tiktok, or whatever bullshit of the day they want everyone to hear.

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- Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s almost always old people with their sound on, ime
  
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  - 1ns1p1d@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    To be fair, no it isnt. Its inconsiderate assholes, not old people. Inconsiderate assholes are all ages. For instance, you are an inconsiderate asshole.
    
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  - RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The most annoying phone thing to me is Zoomers / teens / old people / anyone with videos and music playing from their shitty little phone speakers in public. A lot of kids seem to be phone and tablet addicts and don’t comprehend the noise they’re making is bothering others.
    
    But a few notification sounds is nothing. It’s all about the quantity and duration and volume. Personally I don’t put my phone on Silent or Vibrate unless I’m in a quiet public place like a movie or an office - but I also control all notifications with a heavy hand, not allowing any bullshit apps notification permission unless it’s an important direct communication.
    
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  - bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    As a boomer with tinnitus, (I’ve had since maybe 4 years old), and now hearing loss, I can’t hear shit on my cell phone at 50% volume. And I have alarms set to remind me to take certain inhalers at set times during the day, (Thanks Long Covid!). So, yeah, I have the volume up enough to probably piss you off. It pisses me off too-- I hate those things and having to live like this. But it’s not like turning the volume off or down is really an option for me.
    
    But chances are I probably forgot the damn thing at home anyway.
    
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  - westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Not my experience at all, seems to be just about anyone can be an asshole.
    
    I was in the library for the first time in ages, two of them actually. Mixed group of people, pretty busy. I am happy to say I heard not a single notification or phone ring the whole time. I hadn’t thought about it until you mentioned it. That was kind of refreshing. Unlike waiting rooms, the bus, coffee shop, the quiet lounge at the airport. Maybe I got lucky.
    
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- baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  In my experience, boomers are by far the biggest group who does this. My parents are the worst offenders, so maybe that affects my perception. But any waiting room or library or whatever, it’s almost always boomers when I see it.
  
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TugOfWarCrimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I suspect that a large part of the problem is a combination of hearing loss and a lack of subconscious awareness of their phone. In both cases (and especially combined), they would likely not even hear the notification if it was at a volume you or I would consider reasonable. So, from their perspective, it is quiet. Any quieter and it would be too quiet to notice.

Of course, anyone capable of basic empathy would also realise that such a perspective is their subjective experience of the world and simply turn the volume off/down until later to avoid annoying other people. Sadly, many of their ilk seem to have forgotten the lessons they taught us as kids.

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GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Nah it’s Gen Z and their loud iPhone bell notifications.

WE’RE IN CLASS!! SILENCE YOUR PHONES DAMMIT!

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- AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  No it’s any asshole listening to TikTok or YouTube on speaker
  
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  - Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    There is almost nothing worse than someone else’s tiktok feed playing out loud in the same room you are.
    
    It’s insufferable.
    
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- P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  First world problems
  
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  - holo@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Around 5 billion people have smart phones, it was a first world problem a decade or two ago, everywhere has them. Hell for the poorest African nations a person is more likely to own a smart phone than a car or fridge.
    
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automaton@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yes but it isn’t only boomers. Teenagers do this all the time in public transport (usually watching loud videos) and they don’t have any excuses like for example being half deaf or not knowing how to mute their phone. It is one of the reasons why I prefer driving. I don’t want to have an argument with some stupid shit every time I get on the metro.

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- 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Honestly, have people forgotten headphones exist?
  
  Not long ago, it used to be a mortifying social suicide to be the kind of person that let their phone make a noise in a public place—let alone for an extended period of time!
  
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  - FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m in my early 40’s. I’m still mortified when the phone makes a sound when it shouldn’t. I always double check it’s on silent while going to a movie for example. Meanwhile there’s fuckheads three rows up playing TikTok at full volume while the trailers are running.
    
    Honestly, you should legally be allowed to beat someone like that to death with their own device.
    
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  - Hazor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    So many phones don’t have headphones jacks anymore. Bluetooth is a bigger hustle than just plugging in a wire. And all the cheap ones use Micro-B instead of C for charging, so now you have to worry about two wires. USB-C/lightning to Aux adapters are unnecessarily uncommon and take the charging port. Same with wired headphones that have a USB-C or lightning jack.
    
    The tech companies have made courtesy inconvenient.
    
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- Jimbo@yiffit.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’d believe some teenagers don’t know how to mute their phone. Tech illiteracy is off the chart these days, especially for young people.
  
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  - Letme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I know engineers in their mid twenties who don’t know what an sd card is, or a megapixel, or the term “specs”. We have reached a stage of populism where people don’t care about anything but brand and just buy the most expensive model
    
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- FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If someone actively plays loud shit in public transport, they should get a lifetime ban for it. Nobody likes being on public transport; I’d drive a car if I could. I’m basically forced to be there.
  
  So if someone actively makes that worse, they should be forced to walk and contemplate their life choices.
  
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  - QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    TIL that I’m nobody. I chose to live where I live because it meant that I could rely on public transportation and get rid of my car.
    
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Oh, my absolute favorites are the people that have the volume all the way up and send text messages. You get to hear the send/receive text alert over and over. Then there’s the ones that get the phone call with the obnoxiously loud ring, take forever to find their phone, look at it (still ringing loudly) to see who is calling, and don’t silence the ring while they decide whether or not to answer.

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- Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I see you’ve met my dad.
  
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  - RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Lol, he must hang out in airports a lot.
    
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Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Don’t try to hang Android phones on boomers. Boomers are dipshits with tech and iphones are designed for toddlers. Majority of boomers use iPhones.

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- Letme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  We refer to iphones as boomerphones 😂
  
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  - Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Word
    
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Gieselbrecht@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t know if this is just boomers. I remember a person my age in Uni some years ago who just sat there with her freaking iPhone not silent, end every few minutes a message came with a loud “DING!”

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IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My mom tried to watch Chinese drama shows on public transport. I told her to stop it before some pissed off hillbilly use violence (for context: at the time, there were some news reports of people getting shot for blasting loud music from their car)

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- crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Now that same hillbilly would come up to your mother and try to speak to her in broken Mandarin that they learned on RedNote.
  
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  - robocall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ni hao. Ni hao ma? Wo hen hao.
    
    Sorry I haven’t learnt how to write Chinese yet.
    
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My mom is 75. She knows nothing about how cell phones work. She thinks to charge your phone you need to turn the phone off first.

She doesn’t understand that airplane mode turns off your voice and data radios.

She holds the phone like a star trek communicator, NOT on speaker, and then complains she can barely hear you.

I think the boomers brains are just mush.

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- ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  While not as bad, my dad is kind of like that with phones. I installed Linux mint and honestly as long as the same ginormous Firefox icon (which I told him was the internet and YouTubes - same as the same of in windows) is around, he can still get to his karaoke and YouTube videos.
  
  On my side I know it is pretty much impossible for him to get a malicious executable now, every few weeks we do upgrades when I visit which are a lot faster than windows updates.
  
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- Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’ve never met her, but I hate her. My mom is almost as bad, going to weird lengths to misunderstand.
  
  A conservative distro of Linux is more reliable than Windows. Debian Gnome or something. Overwrite the Windows so it can’t break the boot menu.
  
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Hate is a very powerful word. If you hate people you’ve never even met, that may be more of a you problem that you should talk with a therapist about. My mom is stubborn, bipolar, and refuses to accept help. But she’s never done a single thing to you for you to hate her. That’s all on you…
    
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- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’m continuously astonished that people like this exist (and so fucking many). How do they survive day to day?
  
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- zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  My mom has long been clueless and resistant about anything tech related. Years back I switched her laptop to Linux because I was so sick of all the stupid crap with malware on windows. We used to have to Fix her computer one or more times a month. With Linux, that went to zero, and the only issue was setting up the software to download images from her camera (this was about 2010). These days she has a Chromebook and is constantly convinced it’s “screwed up”.
  
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ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I took a commuter train to the big city the other day and I couldn’t believe how many other commuters were scrolling through TikTok with speaker on, or video calling their parents with speaker on. Nobody else wants to hear your shitty music videos.

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FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s so fucking annoying. Your phone shouldn’t really make ANY sound as far as I’m concerned, but I’ll allow a low volume ring or single beep or bloop for a notification. But if your phone feels the need to make a sound every 20 seconds while you’re looking at the fucking thing, you need to turn that shit off.

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Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My coworker does this with video and shit too it kills me…

5 guys in the same area, 4 of us know how headphones work, but Oldie McDust has to make us listen to his crap music and whatever video he’s listening to at the time…

He figured out how tictok works, even got himself a damn Bluetooth speaker but can’t bother to take the hint from the rest of us and get headphones…

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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Open-plan office spaces are pure torture.
  
  Get him some cheap 90’s era headphones (you know with the ribbon head band, and the shitty foam pads,) and leave a passive-aggressive note informing him his listening happens suck.
  
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- noseatbelt@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  My coworker does this too. Videos, messages, his fucking doorbell. I work from home now so it can’t bother me anymore, but idk how our boss can stand being in the same room as him.
  
  He was playing a video during a teams meeting the other day and everyone could hear it. He didn’t stop when called out on it (boss wasn’t there that day), and the person leading the meeting literally said, “how does he keep getting unmuted?”
  
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- burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  “Take the hint” i.e. we never told him it bothers us
  
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NastyNative@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thats cause they old and cant hear shit…. We are all headed that way.

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- zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  So? Put it on vibrate.
  
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  - limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
    
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  - Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    women’s pants typically don’t have pockets, so you’d get NO notification.
    
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  - NastyNative@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Vibrate is worst than ringing for him.
    
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- frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
    
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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ha ha ha, generalizations are fun and hateful.

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Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Notifications etc I can’t understand if you don’t know how to use tech properly.

What I don’t understand is how every older person seems to have loud speakerphone conversations in public. They had landlines most of their lives so why do this?

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- friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Just join in. That’s what speakerphone is for.
  
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- zerosignal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If you add in shouting at the phone to write text messages, you have my mother in law
  
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- MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Someone told them they’d get brain cancer.
  
  Seriously though, a lot of us olds have our phones Bluetoothed to our hearing aids. So at least with us you only get to hear one side of the conversation. “I’M ON THE BUS!”
  
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- zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  My mother can’t comprehend how to use a cell phone without it being on speaker. She also doesn’t know how to switch it to speaker. If I hand her the phone in normal mode she holds it out in front of her and can’t figure out why she can’t hear anything.
  
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I mean… You just hold it like a telephone? Lol… Surely she’s used a telephone?
    
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WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And stupid kids blasting their calls on loudspeaker, holding their phones like absolute idiots

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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I had the Samsung notification whistle down pat back in the S3/S4/S5 era. Everyone had that as their default and it was so easy to fuck with people.

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yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
While yes I feel you on this … the boomers are probably going deaf and need the extra volume… the asshats who have the phone on speaker like a goddamn walkie talkie in those same public places should be drawn and quartered.

Generally a bigger push towards “maybe don’t be a pubic nuisance” for everyone: regardless of age/generation couldn’t hurt.

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thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I know boomers do it but I also see every generation do it. I know boomers do it because it’s a accessibility reasons due to age and poor hearing and the phone will not get loud enough for them to actually hear it without speakerphone.

I fucking hate it regardless but how else are people with poor hearing able to actually hear anything on these phones though.

Usually most of the time the main problem I have is fucking people playing music on there phones, usually people 25 or younger who just don’t care about others. I get more of them then actually boomers doing it.

Learning technology when you grown up without it and then expecting to learn all about it when your aging and getting older and brains just don’t work as well.

Regardless of who it’s fucking annoying and I hate it but I mainly blame the companies who don’t incorporate better accessibility for people and society (mainly past society) just never teaching people and society as a whole for this fucking American shit culture we have.

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Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Boobedy boop boop

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umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Do you not care?

bingo. they dont give a fuck.

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Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The generation who refuses to use headphones and uses phones on speaker mode is complaining about the noise coming from other peoples phones?

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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I had a professor whose phone would go off every one or two minutes during lecture. Same guy would use the word “literally” in every other sentence (always incorrectly). So many annoying things in that class.

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Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There was one person who had a whole ringtone as the notification sound. IT would go for 20 seconds.

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IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Back in my day, we let the entire ringtone play out because it was “Who let the dogs out”, and we paid 99 cents for it. There was no way we would admit that paying for a ringtone was a dumb idea, so we had to justify it any time we got a phone call.

(By we, I mean millennials, but I never did buy a ringtone. Never understood it, and have used vibrate since my first phone.)

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Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yea I honestly have seen a huge uptick of it in the last few months. Like why the fuck are you setting your email notification to machine gun volleys or fucking crowd cheers.

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Binette@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They are called BOOMers for a reason X)

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