Don’t do a lot of programming any longer.
It’s sometimes useful but at this point it just isn’t revolutionary for anything I do.
> you’re living in the Stone Age, lolz
Skepticism is healthy and even warranted. We don’t have to gleefully embrace every new shiny thing the tech companies throw at us.
Heck the founder of this site himself once wrote an essay cautioning about adopting new services or tech too quickly because it is too often turned against us [1]:
> It took a while though—on the order of 100 years. And unless the rate at which social antibodies evolve can increase to match the accelerating rate at which technological progress throws off new addictions, we'll be increasingly unable to rely on customs to protect us. [3] Unless we want to be canaries in the coal mine of each new addiction—the people whose sad example becomes a lesson to future generations—we'll have to figure out for ourselves what to avoid and how. It will actually become a reasonable strategy (or a more reasonable strategy) to suspect everything new.
I'd prefer that Apple stop removing valuable functionality and replacing it with junk. The removal of the headphone jack and Touch ID have deterred me from buying a new iPhone. I'm writing an mobile app right now, and I'm targeting iOS 15 so I can run it on my own phone. This requires some non-trivial workarounds to insufferable SwiftUI defects that existed until iOS 17.
Meanwhile, Apple refuses to fix the most absurd omission from the iPhone: audible NOTIFICATIONS OF MISSED CALLS. Truly stupid. So yeah... they have some work to do before dicking around with "AI."
I just have very few notifications turned on. For example none of my chat programs notify.
You’re talking about your case and you’re applying it to everyone. Some people want more notifications, need more, some don’t (you).
I perfectly understand that a missed call can be critical. Some callers are not very bright and don’t understand that if it’s critical they should leave a voicemail or send a message. I deal with such people a lot.
Sad that we have to explain this to people.
If an emergency happens with my parents, they're going to CALL ME. And the fact that I won't know about it if I happen to be in the shower or down the hall doing laundry or working outside for a few minutes is absurd and stupid.
Unbelievable that anyone would argue against this obvious OPTIONAL function, which has been present on telephonic devices for decades. Apple's handheld Unix computer/phone is the first I've had without it... and the one with the least excuse.