• BetterNotBigger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Everyone should try disabling ALL notifications and then working their way up to understand which alerts are worth getting interrupted for. Everything you do on your phone ends up becoming more intentional and your battery life goes up too because your screen isn’t constantly getting turned on from the barrage of notifications. To date, I only have 1 notification turned on and it’s when my significant other messages me.

      • macrocephalic@kbin.social
        4·
        10 months ago

        My phone has been on DnD for over a year now. I have a (cheap) smart watch which vibrates on certain alerts like message, calendar, and phone and I can quickly glance and see that it’s something I don’t care about. I also ignore the calls from numbers not in my contacts if I notice them. In the time I’ve been doing this I don’t think a single person has left a message on my voicemail - validating my actions.

        • BetterNotBigger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          It’s so nice to feel like tech isn’t running your life anymore. If I’m in an app doing something, it’s because I made the choice to do it. I still gotta work on that doom scrolling tho, YouTube being the biggest culprit. I think I might try setting some time limits.

    • yukichigai@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      This is one of many reasons why I root my phone and make sure that Do Not Disturb mode actually does what it says on the tin.

      That said, I still keep my old 1st Gen iPhone around because it’s now just a more expensive iPod Touch and works great for playing music.

    • insomniac@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Just don’t let any of your apps have permission to send you notifications. I don’t let messages notify me. I check when I check. The only app that has permission to notify me of anything is the phone app because I’m too scared there’ll be an emergency.

    • Sal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I just bought a audio player, mostly because I don’t have good internet at my house and files was taking up a lot of space. Plus it has Bluetooth transmit and receive.

    • Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The fact that you have to set iPhones to only vibrate and Androids to “do not disturb” to achieve uninterrupted audio playback, is why aliens make a detour around earth.

    • Bloved Madman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Iflash.xyz have everything you need for iPod classics and iPod minis, the mini is just my fav, I had one when I was a kid and now I have another (well, 3) now I’m in my 30s

    • alice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      that’s a mini, they use tiny microdrives inside, they’re tiny HDDs in the form factor of a compactflash card, you can very easily replace them with a compactflash to SD adapter and put a shit ton of storage in them

    • Kata1yst@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      Loved my Zen Micro so much. Was a sad day when it finally died, but then I got a Zune, which was incredibly excellent.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I still have my Sansa Clip+. I should go see if it still works. I remember I rooted that thing too lol.

  • winston@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I remember downloading this song (it was a bonus track on certain versions of the album) and it was called “Expert Knowledge” and I always thought that was a better title.