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Can we also stop with the quasar-bright fucking white LEDs on every fucking thing in existence?
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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I just want doors that sigh blissfully when they open and close. Douglas Adams knew what the future should be.
So they WANT you to ignore the warnings..
My insulin pump, as an example, violates 1, 2, and 8, for sure. You know what I do with it BECAUSE of that? I ignore most of its warnings. Following all the rules would probably make me care more.
My phone stays on perpetual silence. Haptic feedback is all I need or want. The mere thought of my phone going off when not appropriate brings me undue anxiety.
I heavily curate what can and can't notify me, and specifically choose the least annoying notification sound for anything I give notification sounds to. Anyone who doesn't scares me
Bad design goes both ways. I have a couple of small kitchen appliances (coffee machine & toaster oven) and their beeps are impossible to hear if there's the slightest bit of background noise. It makes using them a PITA. And then there's my microwave which could wake the dead.
Turning off notifications will improve your life.
I leave notifs on for sms. Everything else can wait.
And then there are those people that put a whole damn song as their notification sound.
They've basically set up Pavlovs conditioning experiment and inserted themselves as the test subject.
I only get notifications for when there's a new ad. :P
I have a work phone and personal phone and they both scream at the slightest news.
Newer app versions don't heed the "fuck off and shut up" mode when I put the phones face down. So they get a time-out part-way through the day when I've had enough of the "every beep more jarring than every other beep" mentality: I throw them into the next room.
This calmer initiative sounds like a godsend.
I use my teams app on my work phone to notify me when I get dm'd while at work.
when I'm not at my desk I don't hear it because the phone only comes with me if I have to go to location for work.
my personal phone only sends me notifications from my wife, email, and phone calls.
I only get phone calla from work for emergencies only, like "the building is on fire, help us!" emergencies.
You know they have "settings", right?
Sorry; I thought I mentioned that.
Oh, that's right: I did. Sorry again.
I've disabled notifications for everything except certain contacts. I was all about news notifications for a while, but that was obnoxious.
Star Trek LCARS/computer/ship-communication/door noises
You know, we have all the technology to do that.
Has anyone done it? Why haven't I done it?
Damn you know, I'm gonna do it
I've been using them on my phones since Nokia 3650.
Someone please explain this to microwave oven manufacturers.
The new Alexa looks wild.
Many of these are meaninglessly vague, and others are outright incorrect depending on the type of technology
this would be more interesting comment if you explained what you were talking about? which of the many are vague and why etc
Here's one:
Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity
This is a meaningless statement, especially the first half of it
While an interesting idea, this sounds like an organization designed to separate some doofus investment manager with a lot of capital before inevitably folding because companies won't give a damn. Sure, if we were to pass laws allowing us to hunt down anyone responsible for using blue LEDs on devices which did not specifically need blue light, and burn their eyes out with a hot poker. Then, such a certification might make sense. But, so long as there are no repercussions for companies making horrible design decisions, why would any company pay for a certification like this.
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