• Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It was fine.

    The Best part of that time was not being expected to be personally available every minute of the day. The phone was a part of your house and not a part of you.

    • glasratz@feddit.org
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      4 hours ago

      was not being expected to be personally available every minute of the day

      I’m just not and people get used to it. I take some days to answer to texts, often leave my phone where I can’t hear it and it kind of works fine. If it’s really important, people usually try several times.

      • kamen@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        I like the DND feature that mutes everything but rings for repeated calls within a certain time frame - that way if it’s something important enough, I can get notified the second time around, otherwise I can toss my phone somewhere and not be bothered until I decide to look at it again.

      • northface@lemmy.ml
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        4 hours ago

        Same here. I check it a couple of times per day but rarely have it on my person all the time. It’s usually on mute or vibrate, and I’ve set most notifications to hidden/silent except for the ones that matter to me.