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it’s like your shoulder angel but for mediocre cis white dudes
This is your target, Agent. Dispose of them quietly for a tidy bonus.
Yeah that’s Nicolas. Idk why but he’s the LinkedIn guy and pops up on everyone’s feed eventually. You don’t even really LinkedIn if you do t get a visit from Nicolas.
myspace tom > linkedin nicolas
Nicolas is the Linked In Nicole
Of course lemmy would trans a businessman
I was so excited about Apple Watch. Thought how great it would be to not have to take my phone out of my pocket anymore; less screen time, right?
No, it’s just this bullshit. More noise, more alerts, more digital cruft. I put the thing on the charger a couple years ago, been there since.
My mom wears her Apple watch as her “I’ve fallen and can’t get up” device. She’s mildy amused/ irritated at all the orders it gives her. She’s especially irritated at the daily reminder to write in her journal - “I don’t have a journal, and I’m not starting now.”
Noun
cruft
- (film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
Ooooh that’s an excellent word - TIL, thanks!
Cruft isn’t just stuff on computers. Houses can be full of it. It’s left over useless crap, normally with a bit of age to it.
was going to say, that’s an awful definition of “cruft”
EDIT: Wikipedia does a better job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft
Can’t you curate your notifications? I mostly use my watch(Samsung) for health and sleep tracking, silent alarms, timers, some audio controls (though usually the headphones touch controls are enough) and important notifications like teams/calls while at work. I let it show me work email too, so a quick glance can tell me if I care, but I can definitely select which notifications but the watch and have a bunch blocked.
Yes, but in the end I spent all this time disabling notifications, when I bought the thing to show me them… I just realized I don’t need that alert immediately and in fact led to me ignoring them since they became just another annoyance (phone, computer and watch all told me the same thing). It became a negative productivity tool.
I don’t know why, but for some reason I have a tag named “fossil” for you haha
Incidentally a superior wrist computer.
I probably called myself old as I am wont to do(in that intersection where people argue if you are an elder millennial or youngest gen x (1982 effectively)).
As someone who owns both an old Pebble watch and an Apple Watch, there are definitely a lot of days where I think Pebble got it more right than Apple. I think I’d be happiest with something in between that wasn’t artificially weakened by Apple gatekeeping all of their most useful APIs.
My main deciding factor was I think having a “pocket watch” is cooler than a wrist watch.
I got the basic apple watch just to track sleep and runs. I turned every single notification off.
If you wear a smartwatch and have notifications (even better: with buzz) enabled, you’re a psychopath, change my mind
That’s the only reason I’d want a smart watch for: knowing whether a notification is worth getting my phone out for, or not.
For me it’s: Telling the time sometimes, tracking body and health stats, tracking workouts and sport (running / cycling)
Analog watch with years of battery and a smart ring might be better for you then
lol, I didn’t read down before I commented and ended up commenting almost exactly what you said.
That’s the entire reason to have a smartwatch for me. Not having to take my phone out of my pocket to determine if the notification is worth taking my phone out of my pocket.
i like recieving notifications and calls on it cuz I don’t feel my phone vibrating most of the time lol
I had a smart watch for a bit, and stuff like this is kind of why I dropped it.
Like, it was something else I had to charge and remember to grab in the morning, and all it did for me was make it slightly faster to see notifications and gather more info on me that i didn’t really need. Like, ok, theoretically I could answer texts on it without pulling my phone out, but only by using janky ass STT that got half of what I said wrong, so I’d have to re-record 4 times and by that point it would have just been faster to pull my phone out and type out the response, and if I have to pull my phone out anyways what is the benefit of having the notifications on my wrist.
Once knew a guy who would wear a gold Apple Watch on one wrist and a Rolex on the other. I asked him why and he said “oh this one is to check my blood pressure and heart rate, and this one is because you have to have a Rolex if you want people to take you seriously in my line of work.”
I like mine but I have my phone set so that only a small handful of critical apps have notifications on and the watch basically only has notifications for messaging, email, and calendar reminders
Notifications were a great idea but apple and google ruined them by allowing advertising to fuck the whole system up. They should be forced to use their power to create a multiple lane environment for notifications - critical notifications and advertising related notifications need to have clear identifiers so I can identify them easily and opt out of what doesn’t matter to me.
They’ve instead gone with this system of allowing app developers to self regulate and many abuse it. Some give a granular system within their app to allow promotional notifications to be turned off but many do not. A lot who do silently turn settings back on with app updates and such, and after 6 months you’re suddenly getting a sea of promotional notifications again.
It trains you to just ignore notifications. Now they have AI summaries of the sea of notifications instead of just fixing the root of the problem, which is that 80% of your notifications are fucking garbage. But you can’t install an adblocker for this, you just have to stop using amazon, corporate social media, and shitty mobile games (net win though)
Advertising is cancer and ruins the world. Destroy advertising. If you work in advertising you’re a scumbag. Aaab (all advertisers are bastards)
I have a zero tolerance policy with notifications, if an app sends me even a single promotional or advertising notification, it looses notification privileges forever. Hell if it’s sending me notifications that are not directly related to why I have the app, even if they’re not strictly speaking advertisements. NYT’s lost notification privileges because it kept notifying me about opinion pieces and recipes.
I wish apps would just stop being coy with notification settings. Like it’d be cool to be notified when my eBay order is delivered. But if I just want that, I need to manually disable:
- Auction Updates
- Offer updates
- Order updates
- Listing help
- Messaging
- Personalized recommendations
- Rewards and offers
- General promotions
- Item ending
- Item updates
- Auction updates
- Offer updates
- Cart updates
- eBay live (whatever the hell that is)
You can flip one switch to disable all, but if you want any one of them, you need to manually disable each and they’re split between four sub-menus.
Multiply this by 20-30 apps because every parking garage and water fountain needs an app now, and it’s a nightmare.
I carry a dumbphone now and wear a Casio.
This is also assuming the app provides granular notification permissions. So many have just one toggle, so you’re stuck with all or nothing.
I turned on do-not-disturb and only let text messages trough. Orders aren’t just dumped in front of your house here so that’s not an issue
Now do LinkedIn where I want job offers and responses to applications, but not some douchebag’s take on the impact of VR on the grocery supply chain.
Set it as an exception, and then you only need to bother with setting that app properly
Ask him what it was like to be a professional Basic Bitch
Hate the player not the game?
lol Rolex hope he made enough to justify that (potentially) gaudy absurdity
He’s a janitor
Best part of this is that you can actually see the time on the rolex (or any other brand) without shaking it to death and cupping your hands around it because it’s sunny. At a lower price!
You might have bought a shit watch then. Never had that issue on my garmin
I think you underestimate how stupid expensive Rolexes can be.
My gf uses a t9 keyboard on her watch. It takes some getting used to but it works quite well. And it beats looking illiterate with voice typing
Ah yes, the return to the 2000s texting experience
I bought a cheap xiaomi watch and I mostly use it to keep my phone unlocked, “smart lock” or whatever it’s called, it means as long as the watch is in bluetooth range of my android it’s just a swipe unlock instead of a fingerprint unlock. Useful when shopping. And all the other notification and clock stuff of course
He’s hot swipe right!
Smash
A LinkedIn dick pic
I’d be 400% more interested if Ernest P. Worrell showed up on my watch.
I know what you mean, Vern.
I’m holding out for Bernie Worrell
It must be Link
Link Edin
Joe Scott?
