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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
just do it yourself, it's super easy, only takes a cheap adapter you can get on ebay or from iflash and like 15 minutes of time, i used this guide to put a spare 32gb in a mini i bought and it was reaaaaally easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GY761U4vik
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
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.
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Like when the guidance lady interrupts the beat drop to tell me to turn left 😡😡
That's exactly why you disable voice directions unless it's the highway and the next one is in 1 hour.
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.
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.
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.
I'm pretty sure you can do that with Do Not Disturb on Android?
Yup, and iphone has basically the same thing
Yep, pretty easy solution.
Simple fix, just don't have any friends like me! 😉
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.
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.
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.
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.
I wanna know how you got 16k songs on a second gen nano
Easy! Encode your songs as crispy 8 Kbps MP3 files
You can upgrade them with flash storage pretty easily.
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
Now this is cool, thank you for sharing
eBay. Lots of people putting high stage flash drives in old iPod models. 128gb and up
just do it yourself, it's super easy, only takes a cheap adapter you can get on ebay or from iflash and like 15 minutes of time, i used this guide to put a spare 32gb in a mini i bought and it was reaaaaally easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GY761U4vik
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
I remember the first time I saw an iPod. I really did think technology was over.
Wow, big ol' nostalgia hit right there.
When life was simpler!
Haha, yea they are!
These are my first pair. I only got them a couple of weeks ago, purely to be used with my iPod.
It's insane how good they are for the price, even more so when you compare them to wireless buds that cost £150
I preferred my Creative Zen Touch.
Loved my Zen Micro so much. Was a sad day when it finally died, but then I got a Zune, which was incredibly excellent.
peak ipod would look like this but able to search for podcasts and make playlsts of podcasts
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.
iPod choice, 100. Music choice... I don't know... 20?
I still have my Sansa Clip+. I should go see if it still works. I remember I rooted that thing too lol.
I miss the brick game and music quiz game
anyone else remember Vortex?
Music quiz with 16k songs is a real test.