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The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back

www.theguardian.com The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back

WhatsApp notifications in the middle of the night were the final straw. I switched those off – and every other alert – and it helped my wellbeing, sleep and parenting

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I appreciate that Android changed from an opt-out to an opt-in model when it comes to notification permissions, but it's still not enough. I can't believe the mobile OS world became so much worse than actual computing. What a corporate hell scape.
- Tbh not surprised. In 2012 I got my first smartphone, it ran Android. At first I thought it was just like a PC. Within half an hour I was fed up at how useless it was.
  Can't even open a terminal window and apt install apache, what a load of junk.
  Tried a pinephone and that is almost perfect but it struggled with SMS. If that was more reliable I think it would be the perfect phone.
  
  Same. My first "smart"phone was a Nokia N95 and I had so much excitement back then Then I realized: hey man, I can't actually do anything that I need to do on this thing.. But at least it takes really nice photos?

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