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Samsung or Android (don't know which) has idiots at the helm.
My phone moved a spam message to the bin and blocked the sender for me.
Unfortunately it also notify-beeped my phone.
Now why in the hell would I want to be harassed by that? It's just spam. Just bin it since you didn't show me what it said anyway, and don't annoy me with it - isn't that the point? Who designs this software?
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My watch sends me notifications when I stand up for a pee: "Oh good, you're active again!" 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That watch would quickly find itself victim of a rapid, unscheduled disassembly.
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The Clippy among watches!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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My watch ticks whenever a new second arrives.
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It fears that it will be replaced?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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There would be more than just pee going into the toilet.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Look out for the Pavlov training…. You may not be able to “perform” if you are not wearing the watch!
(Especially if it is the HAL9000 version)
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and this is the reason I turn off almost all notifications on my phone. Only herself and my kidlets when calling or messaging me get to have it buzz or beep. Otherwise I am ruthless in turning all notifications off.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I have developed a Pavlovian/Tourette's reaction to ringtones/notifications from my device followed by 'now what?!!' 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Just in case it's a false positive?
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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I thought about that but how would I ever know without actually checking the spam call? like answering it, or calling it back? It's obv someone I don't know or they'd be in my contacts, and if i don't know a number I don't answer.
Edit: I should add, I looked at it seems samsung does not allow you to turn it off
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I have a Pixel, so none of Samsung's overlay on Android. It has a way of viewing all spam text messages, voicemails, and caller id info. Then I can mark it "not spam" if I so choose.
For text messages, I click on my Google icon in the top right corner. I have options to view Archived, view Spam & Blocked, mark all as read, etc.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Both my watch and phone seem to beep excessively and I've learned just to ignore both. I can't be bothered to go through and disable everything.
The only alerts I pay attention to are text alerts on my work number (phone is dual sim) and ideally I'd filter those to just the work monitor app and my bank, but it seems you can only set a specific alert for texts from numbers in your contact list and you can't add a display id to your contacts.
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Mostly Samsung but the Android programmer just does what Samsung wants
REALITY you own a device that does what it wants Case in point
I have a Samsung A23 5g it has a button named Device Care
It will let me "Clean Now" to clear apps not used recently
For how long you ASK about 30 min
In 30 min the Apps are back sucking on the memory tit
I am done with retailers that demand a phone number and e-mail address
I explain I do not have a computer and NO PHONE
If I really want the item I give them and email from a long gone ISP
and as for the phone number 202-456-1111 it is the White House
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Yeah I said mine was an A25 but I think it's actually an A23 now that you bring it up. Not sure though.
But yeah, I am kind of sick of samsung's nonsense.
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So, is it just me or does Microsoft Loop look like a gound up re-work of OneNote? Microsoft Loop: Collaborative App | Microsoft 365[^]
Many of the core facilities of Loop were already available (admittedly by somewhat dubious pathways) in OneNote (real-time collaboration, embedding of documents and web pages, live sketching/writing sharing etc) albeit in a much 'clunkier' UI.
However, with a little investment, OneNote could IMHO have become a fantastic real-time collaboration tool without the need to be permanently on-line (something that is only possible on a small percentage of the world's surface despite what MS, Governemnts, telcos etc tell you) -improved handwriting tools and better recognition, plus the ability to properly embed/edit PDFs would have got it very close to the Loop feature-set, adding a code window linked to git, VS (locally hosted or on-line) or other dev environments would have got it the rest of the way.
I did try to log in to the discussion forum provided (which had no comments when I tried), but I got an 'unknown error', all of which rather sums up the whole mess of Teams/OneNote/Loop/Sharepoint etc - tools which all seem to provide lots of advantages if you can get them to work, but only seem to work in certain very tightly specified environments that most smaller orgs etc do not, and cannot, run cost-effectively.
I have relied on OneNote almost since it first came out (Desktop not APP version) but recently, after extensive research for something with a better feature set re handwriting/PDFs etc) have switched to Nebo Nebo[^] , which does everything and more that OneNote did, across multiple platforms, is still being actively developed, and still allows for off-line working and later sync. THe only drawback for me really is the 'app'-like UI, but I can live with that...
I'd be interested in hearing what you think!
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onenote desktop team in ms was maybe three people....also now that things move to app format... desktop = stop
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Indeed so - that was my point (I think!). OneNote could have become much more, but was effectively abandoned (probably for good reason, at least from the MS company culture viewpoint). If you have to start over with Loop, then that's fine for new teams etc, but for us oldies with years of project notes etc already, it makes more sense to move to something that allows us to retain/migrate our existing workflow etc.
As almost always happens with MS (and indeed most large orgs) the attraction of the shiny and new is greater than the consideration for what has gone before and so long-term customers are, once again and at best, simply not considered.
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onenote was interesting and it tossed out some new ideas. I've been looking for an electronic engineering notebook for decades, and I actually had hope for one note - nah. It just got too clunky. Worse, somehow Microsoft managed to shove their head up where the sun doesn't shine and start indexing folders everywhere. This irritates the living daylights out of me because I use SVN heavily. So the stupid little files show up yada yada yada.
Microsoft does do some interesting work, but they always seem to manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I am so installing Unix.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Ah - so that's the update that shut down my machine while I was at lunch with a ton of windows open 
It's not Updates fault: it's the default settings on my new install. Evidently "Active hours" are set for "Night owl developer" and were 3PM t0 7AM or something. I can't even imagine the thinking behind that one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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