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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It can ring and give notifications, as long as they aren't set to something obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It becomes obnoxious no matter what it is when they're having a text conversation with someone and it's going off constantly

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm pretty old but do you know the Woody Woodpecker laugh? I used to work with a girl back before smartphones that had that as her text notification. It was the whole thing which takes like five seconds so sometimes it was just that fucking sound almost non-stop. Here it is, cursed fucking creation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

That sounds like something they would do to prisoners in Guantanamo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I can't imagine the ptsd you have

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

i couldn't even make it through the 8 second video. i cant begin to imagine what you must have gone through. my heart goes out to you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's kind of amazing that I haven't really thought about Woody Woodpecker since watching the cartoons as a kid and the animation doesn't look familiar at all other than yeah that's the right colors, but I could hear the laugh in my head immediately on seeing the name, without having to play the audio.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For me, if I’m actually having a conversation in public, I’ll silence my phone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right, but they were suggesting it should be silenced at all times, by default, even for the very first notification.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Put your phone on vibrate, you'll survive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's what my phone is set at 24/7, the only time it makes a noise from the speakers is when the alarm goes off in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's the way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I have my phone set so it sets itself to vibrate when it disconnects from my home WiFi. It turns the notification sounds back up when it reconnects. I've never had to worry about it again.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the before time, the long long ago, people didn't have a portable social media machine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I meant I don’t think I’ll put it on silent. I barely use social media outside of Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Well they should silence it at that point because obviously they're paying enough attention to it and expecting responses, so they should be waiting for the vibrate if not looking at it directly.

But people don't need to have their phone silenced at all times while in public, they just need to be attentive enough to answer and silence it. I frequently don't even feel the vibration.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unprompted, I will tell you the most obnoxious ring tone I have ever heard. It was on the subway and a voice was suddenly loudly proclaiming: "Warning! Warning! The owner of this phone is a self-confessed binge drinker" until some douchebag picked up the call.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That is daft, but it does tickle me when someone's ringtone is set to that "warning! It's the wife!" one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It's probably obnoxious in real life but I really wanna do the ZZ Top ringtone from Bad Monkey