Tagged “phones”

Some of these stats seem impossible. 28% increase in bankruptices??!

Related one on reduction in household savings: should sports betting be banned?

this seems like a good change privacy-wise but also an second step if you actually wanted to grant access to contacts.

this looks quite fun, sadly it seems to be iOS-only

If you lose access to your two-factor authentication device, e.g. you lose your phone, you can still log in to your account. When prompted for your authentication code, enter your recovery code shown during the two-factor authentication setup.

There is no section for “what if I have lost my recovery code”.

feels like another of these ones with a lot of possible good uses and a lot of possible abuse

ideas for improving text editing on phones

Android and iOS share a common problem: they copied desktop text editing conventions, but without a menu bar or mouse. This forced them to overload the tap gesture

how to run JS snippets when you’re on your phone

actual ambitious 2030 goals for phone recycling

surprised I had not considered this - since 2 laptops (work/non-work) has long seemed like a no-brainer.

hosting from home is still a bit of a worry, curious what attack vectors are like when running server on android.

1. Is that sandboxed?
2. Do regular linux exploits work?
3. Could you just use wifi hotspots to keep them local?
4. Battery swell issue. Use acc or battery charge limit. Both require root

via hn

on fragmented attention span and inability to wait

I don’t know about this theory, but damn all the giant screens are annoying when looking for a new phone

Twitter thread on the design of the iPhone 7 lens.

in the past 5 years or so, advancements in phone cameras have come mostly in better sensors, far better image processing, and adding more cameras

This reply spoke to me. I did it a few years ago and it has helped a lot.

I’ve silenced my phone 8 or 9 years ago and it’s been like that since then. (With unmuting it very occasionally. Like a few times a year, maybe.) The notification frequency must have grown a lot since then.

I have no idea how people can deal with their phone beeping and vibrating constantly. Actually, I get annoyed pretty quickly when e.g. my partner leaves her phone in the room.

A bunch of good and/or relatable bits in comments section of this. Some sounds far too intense (the guy’s ex-wife needing him to reply to messages within minutes!), some interesting ones on how people use their phones, and how beaviours and norms toward them have changed.

And from another interesting reply:

even if you ignore addiction , mobile phones have been integrated into society in so many infrastructure-like roles that they are hardly at all optional or ‘ignorable’ at this point.
When you live in a world that requires bills to be paid via mobile, rent to be paid via mobile, mass transit tickets bought via mobile, physical location reservation via mobile, as well as any customer service only available via mobile… who cares about personal addiction; normal life isn’t feasible without a mobile phone at that point, and very few (if any at all) mobile phones are designed from the premise that they should respect your attention.

The mobile phones that are designed to preserve the users attention are widely incompatible with any functions that the user needs (billpay/specific group apps, whatever) to stay integrated with the systems being forced upon them, so those options are already non-starter.

That means this problem is worth discussing – non-compulsive normal people as well as compulsive addicts are being affected by the lack of ‘respect for attention’ that mobile phones have, and this problem intersects with the ‘required prevalence’ of mobile phones across the world.