• they/she*

30+ tired nb lazyfutch
:: socal
:: demi @ best
:: certified robot therapist
:: Not a therian, despite reposting so much furry art
:: posting is not activism

*I still don't feel like I "deserve" she/her but no better time than now to ask for it. Either is fine but please don't switch pronoun sets within the same sentence


hellojed
@hellojed

Explaining why I turned off my alarms on accident makes me sound like a crazy person

  • I use the "do not disturb" function to stop getting text notifications at like 1am which are waking me up.

  • last month, during covid, I turned off all alarms via the "do not disurb" function, but this is in a sub menu, but this changes what happens when you select "do not disturb" in the menu again.

  • when I set it again last night, something I've done hundreds of times before, the only indication that something was different was the icon in the phone's notification tray, which is slightly different. I am expecting "do not disturb" to keep alarms on when I select it again

the only Text information that alarms are off, is in the sub menu for the do not disturb feature. And when I woke up at 9:08. this morning.

I am going to have to buy a real life alarm clock now because I don't trust a fucking phone anymore to do what it's done hundreds of times before - turn off notifications but not alarms - because it might not tell me what it's doing - because they had to make the UI have as little information as possible so it looks "nice"

we are enslaved to these fucking phones I fucking hate them.


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in reply to @hellojed's post:

only tangentally related, I used to use one of those google assistant alarm clocks because i wanted a new clock and that one was on sale. I stopped using it because of two reasons, and both of them had to do with it randomly losing internet connection.
the default alarm sound was a randomly generated piano improvisation, which sounds neat. But if there wasnt any internet then it would just stay silent because it was loading that from google's servers, which is incredibly stupid.
the second reason (that made me stop using it outright) is that sometimes when it lost connection it wasnt silent at all. It would instead very loudly scream "SORRY I CANT DO THAT RIGHT NOW, TRY AGAIN LATER" at 4 AM for no reason.
so yeah get a dumb alarm clock and not a smart one for sure

thinking back to when an iOS update Broke Alarms. Like this is a thing that happened and nobody in QA noticed

iirc Android also shipped at least one bad update like it too. can't trust computer