[ale] Stupid smart phone

[Boris Borisov]

I still can get over people talking in public with earbuds. I never know if
the are cursing at me or someone on the other end.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 08:29 Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> We just got my mom a new flip phone - safe against the 3G wind-down
> happening soon.  Some smart features, but calls are the old way
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 8:25 AM Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I had to disable that feature, because when I walk I love to use my
>> phone as an MP3 player, and it drove me up the wall, that shaking the
>> phone, told music apps to skip to the next song. Ugh. I am like why in the
>> hell would  you want that.
>>
>> I have an AT & T Flip phone in the closet, about 4 years old, never used.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 7:55 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Curmudgeon Alert!
>>>
>>> Wife complains she calls and my phone answers but I'm not actually on
>>> the phone. She can hear sounds from my end. I have no idea what she's
>>> talking about. Until one day I heard her yelling my name from my pocket.
>>>
>>> My security sense goes into high alert. Can someone call and my phone
>>> will automatically answer in my pocket and without my knowledge? What
>>> fresh, new level of personal privacy hell has android now sunk to?
>>>
>>> In settings, gestures, is a way to have the phone automatically answer a
>>> call by just the motion of moving the phone from a viewing location to the
>>> ear.
>>>
>>> Pretty much the same motion of walking with the phone in a mid-thigh
>>> phone pocket on my cargo pants.
>>>
>>> I turned off that setting.
>>>
>>> So what's next? A gesture that blocks callers if the phone is turned
>>> screen down?
>>>
>>> Maybe a bit of delay that involves the actual ringing of the phone?
>>> Maybe checking if the phone is in pocket mode? Or the case cover is closed?
>>> Or maybe stop writing stupid code for people too lazy to plop their cheeto
>>> stained thumb on the answer button.
>>>
>>> Can I still buy an analog flip phone I can dial by touch with numbers I
>>> actually remember?
>>>
>>> Get off my lawn!
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