Like, what the fuck. Waiting rooms, libraries, movie theaters, on and on. That same fucking Samsung notification sound, at volume 11/10. For every notification every 20 seconds as Fox/CNN/QVC forces more and more bullshit on you and therefore us. Do you not know that you’re pissing everyone off? Do you not care? I hope it’s because you’re too stupid to turn off sound notifications, but the high volume suggests that you like it and want more. Your generation was the one making us be quiet in public spaces and now you ruin them for everybody. Seriously, fuck you.
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I had the Samsung notification whistle down pat back in the S3/S4/S5 era. Everyone had that as their default and it was so easy to fuck with people.
My mom tried to watch Chinese drama shows on public transport. I told her to stop it before some pissed off hillbilly use violence (for context: at the time, there were some news reports of people getting shot for blasting loud music from their car)
Now that same hillbilly would come up to your mother and try to speak to her in broken Mandarin that they learned on RedNote.
Ni hao. Ni hao ma? Wo hen hao.
Sorry I haven’t learnt how to write Chinese yet.
你好
你是个笨蛋
操你妈，闭嘴
(totally not profanity 😉)
(totally not profanity 😉)
I don’t believe you. <checks> eh. coulda been worse.
我会打破你的菊花.
The users on rednote are so friendly, teaching us common greetings in Chinese.
C H I N E S E
Hotdang, nailed it first try!
A neat thing about living in Japan is that there are announcements and signs everywhere telling you to please keep your phone silent and to turn down the volume on your headphones so that noise doesn’t leak out either. ‘Silent mode’ is literally called ‘manner mode.’
My mom is 75. She knows nothing about how cell phones work. She thinks to charge your phone you need to turn the phone off first.
She doesn’t understand that airplane mode turns off your voice and data radios.
She holds the phone like a star trek communicator, NOT on speaker, and then complains she can barely hear you.
I think the boomers brains are just mush.
I’m continuously astonished that people like this exist (and so fucking many). How do they survive day to day?
While not as bad, my dad is kind of like that with phones. I installed Linux mint and honestly as long as the same ginormous Firefox icon (which I told him was the internet and YouTubes - same as windows) is around, he can still get to his karaoke and YouTube videos.
On my side I know it is pretty much impossible for him to get a malicious executable now, every few weeks we do upgrades when I visit which are a lot faster than windows updates.
My mom has long been clueless and resistant about anything tech related. Years back I switched her laptop to Linux because I was so sick of all the stupid crap with malware on windows. We used to have to Fix her computer one or more times a month. With Linux, that went to zero, and the only issue was setting up the software to download images from her camera (this was about 2010). These days she has a Chromebook and is constantly convinced it’s “screwed up”.
I’ve never met her, but I hate her. My mom is almost as bad, going to weird lengths to misunderstand.
A conservative distro of Linux is more reliable than Windows. Debian or something. Overwrite the Windows so it can’t break the boot menu. Apple I don’t know about.
Hate is a very powerful word. If you hate people you’ve never even met, that may be more of a you problem that you should talk with a therapist about. My mom is stubborn, bipolar, and refuses to accept help. But she’s never done a single thing to you for you to hate her. That’s all on you…
Oh. I didn’t see hate like that. I hate it when my toes get wet after I’ve walked through a puddle. I hate clam dishes. All your mom did was resemble mine.
They see it as a status symbol, like the iPhone tone when the original iphone was released. Idiots.
And stupid kids blasting their calls on loudspeaker, holding their phones like absolute idiots
We used to laugh about sidetalking… Now everyone does, as I call it, the sandwich. Holding flat in front of mouth.
There was one person who had a whole ringtone as the notification sound. IT would go for 20 seconds.
I took a commuter train to the big city the other day and I couldn’t believe how many other commuters were scrolling through TikTok with speaker on, or video calling their parents with speaker on. Nobody else wants to hear your shitty music videos.
It’s so fucking annoying. Your phone shouldn’t really make ANY sound as far as I’m concerned, but I’ll allow a low volume ring or single beep or bloop for a notification. But if your phone feels the need to make a sound every 20 seconds while you’re looking at the fucking thing, you need to turn that shit off.
I heard a Samsung whistle that ended in a fart sound…12 times in less than five minutes. All numbers are estimated, but I feel like I am undershooting it.
BO DU BU DUP DUP!
😡😡😡
My parents do this. I’ll be sitting across the room at night, playing some hades on my steam deck, and I’ll suddenly get jumpscared by my mum browsing facebook
Boobedy boop boop
😡
Oh, my absolute favorites are the people that have the volume all the way up and send text messages. You get to hear the send/receive text alert over and over. Then there’s the ones that get the phone call with the obnoxiously loud ring, take forever to find their phone, look at it (still ringing loudly) to see who is calling, and don’t silence the ring while they decide whether or not to answer.
I see you’ve met my dad.
Lol, he must hang out in airports a lot.
Thats cause they old and cant hear shit…. We are all headed that way.
We are but I’m gonna have my phone on vibrate cuz I have a shred of self awareness
My dad will not feel the phone vibrate… it sucks getting old. I have tried it all with him even with the loud ring tone still doesnt hear it.
Yeah I’m not a boomer but sometimes I don’t feel the vibration, especially if I’m wearing looser clothes. But if I have it on vibrate all the time I also start getting phantom vibrations when nothing actually happened. Sometimes when my phone isn’t even in my pocket, I’ll think I got a vibration notification.
So? Put it on vibrate.
I don’t know about other people, but I often miss vibration notifications. If I’m doing basically anything at all, even just walking, it’s a good bet I’ll miss it. The pattern of vibration, etc., doesn’t seem to make much difference, either. I basically have to be doing nothing before I’ll detect it. This has been true of every phone I’ve had - flip phones, iPhones, and Androids. I keep it in a front pocket, too, so it seems like that should work.
I still use vibrate all the time. If there’s something I’m specifically waiting for that I don’t want to miss, I’ll turn on the sound.
Do you think it’s a modern phone thing? I used to always be able to feel my phone vibrating. But when I got a new phone several years back, I was frustrated to find that I couldn’t feel the damn thing vibrating in my pocket and I’d miss calls and texts.
I always thought it was just me, but maybe not. In the push to make everything smaller to cram more in, maybe the weight they use to generate the vibrations is just too small.
Same. I also get phantom vibrations sometimes so it’s a toss up for me.
Yeah, there are times when I’m like, “Aha! It’s definitely vibrating now!” Pull it out of my pocket and look, no notifications or anything.
I set the notifications to vibrate and set a ringtone for all calls. I don’t think you should respond to messages immediately.
Vibrate is worst than ringing for him.
women’s pants typically don’t have pockets, so you’d get NO notification.
