• snooggums@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It can ring and give notifications, as long as they aren’t set to something obnoxious.

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        It becomes obnoxious no matter what it is when they’re having a text conversation with someone and it’s going off constantly

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          I’m pretty old but do you know the Woody Woodpecker laugh? I used to work with a girl back before smartphones that had that as her text notification. It was the whole thing which takes like five seconds so sometimes it was just that fucking sound almost non-stop. Here it is, cursed fucking creation.

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            It’s kind of amazing that I haven’t really thought about Woody Woodpecker since watching the cartoons as a kid and the animation doesn’t look familiar at all other than yeah that’s the right colors, but I could hear the laugh in my head immediately on seeing the name, without having to play the audio.

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            i couldn’t even make it through the 8 second video. i cant begin to imagine what you must have gone through. my heart goes out to you

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          Well they should silence it at that point because obviously they’re paying enough attention to it and expecting responses, so they should be waiting for the vibrate if not looking at it directly.

          But people don’t need to have their phone silenced at all times while in public, they just need to be attentive enough to answer and silence it. I frequently don’t even feel the vibration.

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        Unprompted, I will tell you the most obnoxious ring tone I have ever heard. It was on the subway and a voice was suddenly loudly proclaiming: “Warning! Warning! The owner of this phone is a self-confessed binge drinker” until some douchebag picked up the call.

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          That is daft, but it does tickle me when someone’s ringtone is set to that “warning! It’s the wife!” one.