[ale] Stupid smart phone

[Jim Kinney]

I left out the phone is a OnePlus 5, android 10. 

Settings for gestures were "default" as I never saw a "middle finger salute to fix all problems" setting anywhere. Maybe in a later version? I never looked at the gestures settings until today.

Some days the advance of technology feels like the rush of a great roller coaster. Other days it's more like the vcr clock always blinking "12:00" for lack of a $0.10 rc circuit to keep the clock alive during a power blink.

😁

On December 10, 2021 5:18:55 PM EST, "jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com" <jonhall80 at comcast.net> wrote:
>Great RANT!
>
>Did I miss something, or did you tell us the phone, OS and settings you
>used?
>
>Curious minds want to know.
>
>md
>
>>     On 12/10/2021 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!
>>     --
>>     Computers amplify human error
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