[ale] Stupid smart phone

[Jim Kinney]

Ha!! Curmudgeon profile!!!

On December 10, 2021 7:11:35 PM EST, "jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com" <jonhall80 at comcast.net> wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Well, I do remember the time that Unix systems allowed you to install
>them and attach to the Internet without having you set or change the
>root password, so I can feel your pain.
>
>Default settings should protect the new user from bad effects,
>including putting them in your back pocket and calling people with your
>butt cheeks, a feature a lot of our politicians seem to use.
>
>Maybe you can talk the Android people to put in a "curmudgeon" or
>"flip-phone" profile as a default.
>
>md
>
>>     On 12/10/2021 6:22 PM Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>     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!
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