Well you won't replace it with a pen and paper (like everybody else) cause we are addicted to our phones, that's a big reason why many apps are cocky
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Every app gets like, 1 chance to have useful notifications, if most of them are trash I just disable its ability to send notifications.
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The answer: tech bros dictating that they need more “engagement” e.g. they need to collect more data so they can either sell said data or get acquired. I guarantee you very few mobile developers want to send you a notification of any sort, much less “why haven’t you used the app.”
I received a notification to use Door Dash yesterday, to order food... while I was cooking soup.
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There's no way I'd use a grocery app. Paper and pen works well enough.
Now, if my phone had a slide-out physical keyboard like it did back in fucking 2007, I'd consider it. As it is, typing on phones is pain.
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Gabriel ultrakill
MACHINE! I Am Going To WALL MART To Get Chicken Nuggies, Do You Want Anything?
By default I disable notifications for all my apps unless it is something I need notifications from. And even there I filter out notification types that I don't care about.
Can't other phones do this?
i think it depends on how the app is coded, on android anyway. Some apps have pretty granular control and some just gave like, two categories
Tangentially related, check out Grocery Genius. FOSS and I've been very happy with it
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.rendox.grocerygenius
I force stop the app. I either do it manually or run the hibernator app.
Uber eats wants me to order something?? Congrats you just got yourself and all your friends shut off.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tafayor.hibernator
contains ads and in app purchases
skidaddle skidash
you go in the trash
The CD-Keys website changes the tab title to "We miss you" when the tab loses focus. Pisses me off enough to close it every time.
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Roko's Basilisk has it out for this guy
You're too late, these apps are the revenge.
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happy dagger time
I hate uber advertising stuff on my notifications which also appear on my Fitbit.
10% off flights?! OMG. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
But I DO want notifications on my wrist when my Uber driver has arrived. Psshhh
Turn them off and they’ll text you, which costs them money so they only send the necessary stuff.
Same
The risk of people turning them off entirely must’ve been just enough to get them to offer this granularity (as seen on iOS). Not all apps are so kind (grr).
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You can control which apps can send notifications to fitbit, at least on Android
But I agree, the Uber ones are the worst
The issue is with the information. Like the one above us said they want to be notified that their ride has arrived but to allow that notification you have be willing to accept advertisements as well.
It's the reason a majority of people just straight up kill notifications. Way to many useless ones to justify the 1 in 8 that you want.
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Last time I was using a windows computer I was turning it off to re image it and I didn't want to wait for it to shut down so I just held the power button since it didn't matter if it got messed up and windows popped up this message on screen that was like "Please stop holding the power button we just need a few minutes". Like what are you doing you aren't supposed to tell the user what to do, that isn't the job of a computer
Funny button on the back of the PSU goes click
I wish, the new dell optiplexes are terrible, not only do they not have an actual psu switch, it takes like 20 seconds of holding the power button before they turn off and then you have to wait like 10 seconds before you can turn it on again, during which time it does a really good job of pretending to be on and flashing disk activity lights and things but it's actually just self testing and you have to wait for it to turn back off before you can actually turn it on again. Dell used to make such good quality computers but they are genuinely awful now
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The moment my computer refuses to obey my commands sent from the physical layer, is the moment it will cease to exist on this physical plane
Honestly that's one of the least annoying ways windows interacts with modern hardware, you should experience when it changes your efi settings and breaks pxe booting
This is like bing AI chatbot asking a question back of its answer now
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I like that iOS apps must explicitly ask for my permission to send notifications. Sadly, as my main phone is an Android device, I have to turn them off manually.
android requires permission to send notifications too as of android 13
Oh, that's great. I'm lagging behind with 11.
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From Android 14? 13? they've gotta do that on Android too.
I fucking hate notifications. I either disable them entirely or delete the app. No in betweens. Remind me to use your app?...deleted.
Duolingo is the only exception.
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If the app was any good maybe
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I too take any unwanted notification as a potential threat: the only answer is immediate annihilation of said app. Basically the dark forest hypothesis but it’s my phone.
Dark phorest
Daurk Phaurwressed.
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