Honestly the new trend I’ve noticed is just leaving the phone on do not disturb 100% of the time, and I’m on board
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Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
my phone hasn’t made notification sounds in years except for some particular situations, and I turn notifications off for apps until I know I want them on
it’s great
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I use Tasker to make groups of people who can take me off mute when calling (Partner, parents, best friend) and everything else is controlled by timed DND and mute automations (slightly different for personal and work)
Karryp_17@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Sounds like you’ve trained your phone to only speak up when it really matters 😂 Honestly, that’s a smart move, constant pings are such a distraction. I kinda wish I had that level of discipline with my notifications.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Massive adoption of smart watches helps this quite a lot. 2 devices ringing or vibrating is quite annoying. People set silent on phone and feel messages on watches.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Honestly that’s one of the biggest reasons I have a watch - my phone has been on vibrate for years but I don’t always notice it, however I always notice the watch vibrate
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Been mine for at least a couple years now
rollerbang@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I hate it… When you actually need a person you can’t reach them. Is it really so hard to toggle DND? I really haven’t got any issue with that.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Have you considered that they don’t want to be reached
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Just call twice in rapid succession, that usually overrides it
Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s better to just leave the phone at home…
tux0r@feddit.org 7 hours ago
I’m working on it.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I haven’t been able to find this again, but there’s a short film that was made in England in 1946 that perfectly nailed how cell phones were going to work. There was even a man in a grocery store calling his wife at home to find out what ingredient he needed to pick up. The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie, which despite the movie images of an officer using a device about 1’x4"x4", in fact also required a ginormous and heavy backpack thing lugged around by some misbegotten private.
BTW a fun fact: the word “ginormous” (a portmanteau word combining “gigantic” and “enormous”) dates to WWII or earlier. I’d always assumed it was valley-girl speak until I encountered it in a Battle of Britain memoir written by a pilot who was killed in 1942.
PmMeFrogMemes@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Petition to bring back calling babies “mites”
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I still call one of my kids my little “wiggle worm”, from when she hadn’t even crawled yet. I’d sing her this old-timey lullaby:
🎵_I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
Before I forget that_ 🎵
luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 minutes ago
Does she always hold her breath and listen?
halvar@lemy.lol 18 hours ago
i just love it that they made like 20.000 of these and when one turned out to be correct it’s just so correct it makes you resonate with a random dead guy from a hundred years ago
Eq0@literature.cafe 9 hours ago
I always love small misconceptions about technology that didn’t exist yet. In this case: no chance of silencing or turning off the device. Cracks me up!
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
No concept of voicemail.
Of there were answering services, they were for rich people of just called secretaries.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
I was honestly ready to whine about the timing and this not making sense… but no, turns it my timeline, despite being based on books that were supposed to be well-researched, was way off. And indeed the first chatter about mobile phones was around 1908. Til.
Have some Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Reminder that Socrates was said to have hated books because they corrupted the youth, weakening students’ faculties by removing the need to memorise information.
Every single generation since records have existed thought the new tech was ruining us.
Now get off my fucking lawn.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
We also have a lot more knowledge than we used to. Socrates didn’t have to remember about molecular metabolization pathways or the energy transition of a turbium atom or what size of medium coffee is at Starbucks.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Could socrates predict invention of encyclopedia?
Ancient philosphy vs some madlad going “Ah yes today I will write down EVERYTHING.”
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Ah but new tech always has been ruining us
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Those damn kids and their newfangled pointy rocks. Back in my day, if you needed your rock to do more damage, you just got a bigger one!
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 16 hours ago
Wait did Socrates really say that?
God he’d absolutely hate me. I can’t memorize anything, but I can seemingly learn everything
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Except this is young fashionable people whinging about old people have the ringer setting on…
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
While the concert and wedding are events where you should turn off your ringer, it’s certainly true that phones can ring at inconvenient times. A big enough problem to outweigh the benefit of being able to check in, find people, call for help, etc. from nearly anywhere? Absolutely not, but it’s still a pretty accurate prediction.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Sure but AI will wreck us worse than all of them.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 17 hours ago
Now, let’s talk about meetings.
Τώρα, ας μιλήσουμε για τις συναντήσεις.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Completely unrealistic, nobody will keep there ringer on
jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
It’s weird but at one point in the last 10 years, society just decided that everyone uses vibrate now.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Not boomers, they love the constant dings and obnoxious ringtones to be as loud as possible.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
We decided that ringtone were bullshit exactly when we had the option to have any sound imaginable for free.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
that works great if you keep your phone in your pocket. if you don’t…
MissJinx@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
old.people… always old people
protist@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
I’m also 43, and I and many of my friends call each other all the time
Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I absolutely hate text messages. I refuse to spend hours of my time sending text messages back and forth to solve a problem that a 60 second phone call could have disposed of.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 16 hours ago
And if they do call and it’s an emergency they’ll leave a message anyway
Demdaru@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They’ll call twice.
Calling me twice in a row without good reason guarantees war, because I assume you’re literally dying.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Hopefully it’s not an actual emergency that requires immediate answer
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I always do. How could I hear it otherwise ?
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
dsilverz@calckey.world 2 hours ago
@tux0r@feddit.org @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
I momentarily (mis)read the cartoon's title as something like "When we all have pocket teleporters" and thought the first frame was some kind of use case for a 19th/20th century sci-fi pocket teleporter, where said device was activated allowing the person to run faster while chasing the train.
My eyes followed to the second frame and only then I realized the cartoon was about pocket telephones, not pocket teleporters, beeping while being inside the pocket.
A beeping pocket teleporter would be equally annoying, though: "No, I'm not interested in a monthly subscription fee of 42 bars of gold for faster and farther teleporting needs, shut up with your ads, Thomas Edison's Magic Porter Apparatus"AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 18 hours ago
There’s an Everett True energy about this
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
All that’s missing is him just straight up punching the guy into next week.
tux0r@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I’ve never heard of that guy. Mind to enlighten me?
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The start of old comics, characterized by being a violent choleric who deals with annoying people. Check out !truecomics@midwest.social.
Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Totally thought it was until I read your comment and went back to double-check 😅
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This assumes you are popular enough to be bothered with
filcuk@lemmy.zip 15 minutes ago
My (potential) marriage is safe!
No, wait…