just move to Romania

you will have to deal with sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, living in a poor country etc.; but wont have ads on the back of receipts

There is always the back of notes. What's that? People don't take paper notes anymore? God dammit.

Interesting. To me, the calendar app is one of the most important apps I have (it's fully FOSS though. Connected through DavX5 with a Caldav server to sync to my desktop/Thunderbird, no Google involvement)

Yay, me too. But I don't dare to remove the calc.

i've been thinking about that a lot lately

not because LLM are anywhere near that, but they did bring that question to my mind

when/if a machine becomes sentient - how will we know? obviously, the machine won't come up and say "i have become sentient" that poor thing won't have a clue what's happening to it. will that version of sentience be the same biological organisms experience? we have no way to clearly point out the traits necessary for sentience, we can only tell, to the best of our understanding, which beings are, or aren't sentient.

and even when we finally figure out "holy shit, something happened and that machine is now... a being?" what do we do next? so many things will happen at once. Now we can try to figure out how sentience is achieved, now we need to figure out laws that include machines, now we need to think try to convince the masses that a machine can be satient (given that those responsible are as confident as they can be that's indeed what happened). and that's only outside the machine's mind! how do we handle a completely new being's psychology? if it gets depressed or develops whatever other psychological issue how do we adress it? our biological bodies can be medicated, our diets improved, we know ways to make the happy chemicals, but how on earth would we help a digital system? what do we teach it? what do we show it? even if some percentage of the population accepts a robot like that, very few will see it as equal, we'll enter a new era of spiciesm, where, in a way, humanity's only child will be ridiculed and their identity disregarded as lesser at best. a new mind faced with so much backlash because it dares to exist will not have an easy existence.

and that's just off the top of my head. i hope whenever a new mind awakens in a machine, if it ever does, it finds itself in an environment that'll welcome it

(Read this in a David Attenborough voice)

And here, we see the product manager in its natural habitat, the office boardroom. Although dark and desolate, it provides the product manager with one its most critical resources: the whiteboard. The average product manager goes through two whiteboards every meeting, and this one is no exception. Thankfully, it is well-prepared for the quarterly meeting, having found a boardroom with four whole whiteboards.

But, not all is perfect for this product manager. The natural enemy of the product manager—the project manager—has sensed activity in the boardroom. In their natural habitat, it's a constant struggle between product manager and project manager. A fight between metrics: user, or developer. Luckily for our product manager, it's not its first encounter with a project manager.

The intruding project manager takes a sip of its coffee, demanding a higher share of the metrics for its lines of code. A notification channel is 6 extra lines, and that can make the life-or-death difference between the project manager's quarterly bonus. Our product manager is unwavering, however. It has dealt with this project manager before, and it knows just how to drive it away. The product manager raises itself up and puffs out its chest, trying to scare away the project manager by marking it's territory with click-through rates and loudly mentioning the CEO.

The product manager's strategy worked. At the mention of Steve, the intruding project manager turned pale and scurried away. The product manager is safe for another day in the office.

It ends up being initially "Yes I want my app to notify me about important updates" but then the app abuses its notification privilege to start spamming you. I want my banking app to notify me when I get paid and when bills clear. I don't want my banking app to tell me about a new low interest rate I can secure on a loan.

The app at least had granular notification settings I could go in and change, but then it ends up being a periodic battle of attrition against changes to the granular notifications that are always opted in by default every time they add a new category. I turn off "offers and promotions" in an app but now it offers "recommended deals" or some garbage.

I'm going to leave it for the sake of humor, but in my rant about autocorrect it didn't change tyring to trying...

It knows what I was saying about it. Lol

Some alternative keyboards allow displaying autocorrect suggestions without replacing the input automatically. If you're on Android and don't use swipe-typing, you can try some open-source keyboards, e.g. from this list. (Swipe-typing is still pretty bad in open-source; and idk how the situation is on iPhone.)

Usually you can tell it not to autocorrect into certain words. I don't think any keyboard I know let's you filter for apostrophes.

Edit: FUTO keyboard at least lets you dial it back.

Mine keeps autofilling "the" as "Theresa."

I don't even know anyone named Theresa. 😐

Exactly. I leave text notifications on so that I see them right away and never have to take a phone call. All other notifications can be disabled. If it's urgent, you can text me.

how do you do this?

Lemmy and YT. I don't have notifications. They are poop time / lines apps. Sometimes i'm bold and use them before bed too

That turns off all notifications for that app. FilterBox let's you block them based on key words or other criteria. It's like a spam filter for notifications.