Android user here. I have five different classes of notifications:
Completely off, notifications blocked. Any category that doesn’t give me actionable notifications or notifications based on something I’ve explicitly asked for is here. All streaming apps and games are here. Any app that tries to send me an ad in a notification gets this treatment. Almost every social media category also gets this setting, though there are a couple notable exceptions I’ll get to later. All notifications that are not important and not urgent go here.
On, but delivered silently and minimized. “Silently” might be a bit of a misnomer here since I rarely have sound on, but this also means no vibration. The notifications are also minimized in the notification shade and go to the bottom of the list. This is where my new email notifications go, because I’ve got my inbox pretty well filtered down and only things that are actionable are allowed to stay unread in the inbox. Basically this is for anything that’s important but not urgent.
Silent. See above for “silent” disclaimer. This section is for notifications that are urgent but may or may not be important; notifications from my cameras, for instance, or headlines from a news org. I also allow selected categories of Mastodon and Lemmy notifications through: only messages typed out by another human, though. Not likes or reposts.
Vibrate/sounds. For notifications that are both important and usually urgent. Text messages, Discord messages (from friends only), Slack messages while working. 2FA checkins. Most notifications from my library. Delivery notifications. The notification that my garage door has been left open (it happens a lot). Also, unfortunately, I have to have Instagram DMs in this category, because my wife sends me memes and they’re always really good.
Vibrate/sounds and override Do Not Disturb. This category is for VERY urgent and VERY important notifications. Messages from family members (though not group messages). Notifications from my alarm system. The doorbell.
I do also use BuzzKill to finesse messages that I think are delivered in the wrong Android categories; like the stupid notifications my cameras always send about cold weather. I know it’s cold, and I know that’ll affect your battery life. I don’t need to be told every time the temperature dips below 40°F, but I do still want to know when somebody is trying to get into my garage.
I’m sorry, was my answer to the question that was directly asked too long for you?
I was just thinking while writing that message how I usually have such good, productive discussions on the Fediverse as compared to Reddit or Twitter or whatever.
I’ve most frequently seeing AF mean “As fuck”. It’s even gotten to the point of bumper stickers that say things like “Mommy AF”. Outside that meaning, I’m not sure what else AF could mean.
As someone who has experienced multiple brain traumas, I do have feelings there too. Different impacts have had different results. Falling 20ft and cracking my skull on concrete left me seeing everything in a hue of orange for a couple of years. Getting my face crushed by a car left me feeling strange all in the front. Getting shot in the head was so strange, it’s like the back part of my brain still hurts. Especially when I try to remember certain things.
Crashed into a car with my bike with no helmet (always wear a helmet people!) and lost all memory. My head hurt for a year afterwards when I tried to read something. Years later, the patch is still numb to the touch, and causes a sensation of stinging in one eye, it causes tears if I rub it.
Email, Signal and SMS get notifications. Literally everything else is off, and I use Buzzkill to shorten the vibrate. I have ASD, and run my own business, so I get literally 30-40 SMS/200+ Signal notifications a day, and the constant BZZZZ BZZZZ actually causes me an immense amount of sensory overload. Buzzkill ensures that vibration pattern is nothing more than a very quick sub-half second, one-off buzz. The number of apps I actually have installed is so few, I can literally fit them on one screen, no scrolling required, and I check for the few app updates I'll need manually each day.
Seagate - bought 3 of their drives . All 3 failed within a month of the warranty being up. But they said “Warranty is up so suck it”; two can play that game.
It’s the first thing I do when installing a new app, as most prompt for it on first launch, and I reject it immediately. I can always allow them later, but it’s been my default mode since iOS started letting you control them.
For email and work IM’s, my phone shows only the badge, no sound. Signal, SMS, and the phone app get sounds, too. That’s it, silence on everything else.
Several local (but national chain brand) furniture stores.
So many reasons. One had better quality furniture on display than what they sold by a long way. Another tried to give me not one but two firm mattresses instead of medium and lie to me about them. Yet another got caught out blatantly lieing to my face about delivery times and procedures.
All of them had great customer service right until the point that they had our money and then completely treated us like garbage afterwards.
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