It’s funny to me that my brother pretty much only texts me at 10pm. Dude, I’m a sleep. And I’m sure my response at 515am doesn’t wake you up either.
I have anxiety and I didn’t mind much when people called me, because I have caller ID, I could just ignore the unknown callers. But then emergency alerts are now a thing in my country and my phone has started to whine and ring multiple times a year, like the end of the world is coming, to tell me a child is missing, or that a big storm is coming. Plus, during the pandemic, my government thought it would be a brilliant idea to send general messages to the public using that emergency system…
The most frustrating part is that I can’t disable nor mute those alerts. My only way not to have my phone blasting the emergency alarm unpredictably, is to mute it permanently. I’m now missing calls but on the positive side, I don’t notice amber and emergency alerts.
Which OS do you use? On Android/LineageOS you can disable all alerts. Not sure if you can mute them, I never got one.
I tried disabling them on two phones using Android 11 and 13. I can slide the sliders to “off” but it doesn’t change anything. I also tried to disable them using adb. Alas even if everything is disabled, the phone still blasts the alarm.
Apparently those are mandatory and you’re not supposed to be able to disable them.
Interesting, now I do wonder what those sliders do. Can’t test them unfortunately.
If I understand correctly, the alerts can be classified under the different categories listed in the options (amber, extreme threats, etc…) and those can be disabled. However there is a categry called “presidential alerts” and those cannot be disabled.
Lucky for me, my province just blankets everything under “presidential alerts” and so that’s why the sliders don’t do anything in my case. Like… they should, but because my province just sends everything as super mega extreme presidential alerts, the options are useless.
Well, that sure is annoying. It seems you really need to be rooted to disable them: https://xdaforums.com/t/root-mod-how-to-disable-presidential-alert-text-messages-easy-method.3841385/
Way ahead of you
I’m the weird one who puts my phone on loud when I sleep. If anyone is actually calling me and not being marked as spam, it is probably a work or family emergency. Otherwise I just expect a message.
Usually if you use Do not Disturb and the same number calls you twice within 15 mins then it will still ring
Jenson-like fonts are rare to see online, but always nice.
Part of the reason might be that a serif font for something viewed on screen is in most cases (this one included) just out of place.
Yes. By convention based on old reasons though. When computer screens became common they were low resolution, and a whole genre of serif fonts were made to look good on screens and low-end printers. Good fonts, but adapted to look good in pixel grids. Microsoft made Georgia, Adobe had Utopia to serve the same need. A font like Centaur would just not survive on a screen. Sans serifs worked better, especially the ones with straight lines, Helvetica is easier than Optima on a screen. But now… phone screens and regular screens are good enough to display serifs, but now we are used to sans serifs online. But there’s no real reason for them anymore.
The invention of the phone and its consequences was an unprecedented disaster for the human race
Disaster??? It helped emergency response time, our ability to reach out loved ones across the planet, maintain relationships with people from other points in our lives. I’m sure there are a million more positive phone related things I could list.
I’m so sick of all the negativity on the Internet.
