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[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

____ would like to connect. You know what to do.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your next target is a notorious head hunter, known for his cheap, ill-fitting glasses. Eliminate with extreme prejudice, Agent 47.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

He does look like the profile pics of the targets in hitman.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your mission should you choose to except it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He can except it

or accept it.

Those are his two options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would you choose to subscribe to linkedin notifications? Why, in particular, would you choose to receive linkedin notifications on your watch?

Notifications is a privilege you should only grant to key applications, and watch notifications should be the most important of all notifications.

"Here's a guy" via linkedin is not on the list of approved high-value notifications.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I agree. But I also haven't meet anyone IRL who curates their notifications. In fact most people don't seem to give a shit what apps they install and their notification bar usually has 3000 alerts pending.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People are weird AF. I restrict almost all notifications and what's annoying sometimes these assholes (looking at you Google Play) re-enable them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The only notifications I allow are messages and emails.

What the hell else would I need to be notified about?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I get notifications for rocket launches from Cape Canaveral so I can go outside and look at them, but that's very geographically specific, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe like earthquake and storm alerts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No surprise, Play is malware.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm the person OP is talking about and my wife is the person you're talking about.

It is physically and emotionally painful for me to have to look at or use her phone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does she also just leave the apps in their original download place on her home screens? I always wonder about the lives of people who have like 5+ screen of unsorted apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My wife has six home screens each with a random selection of apps and widgets. I feel like there would be more order if they were just in the position they landed when she installed them. She never clears notifications or closes browser tabs. I feel anxious whenever I use her phone to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am this person too. I open every app I use by opening the full list and scrolling. If it's one I use regularly I remember where it is via muscle memory... until I (un)install another app and it's shifted over by 1. My notifications are full of weeks-old Discord notifications I never gave a shit about in the first place, SMS messages about prescriptions I've already picked up, and beneath the "important" section there's a horrific underbelly of junk emails, random ads from other apps, system notifications, news, duplicated emails across Gmail and Outlook, etc etc etc...

I'm fairly techy and know these are easily solvable things, but I'm pretty unorganized irl with a healthy dose of ADHD too so these habits take some effort and time to build. I've poked at disabling notification categories per app and organizing my app shelf but I don't stick with it much. Sometimes it's unclear what notifications are in which categories, and apps update and add notifications all the time that I then have to go in and disable again. I can organize my apps on my screen, but muscle memory works "good enough" to the point that I forget to use the organized screen and just dive into All Apps again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m mildly neurotic (if such a thing exists) about my app layout. I was so happy when Apple gave us the option to just not have apps install to home screens, and instead just stick in the list. I have a select few apps I use regularly that are in folders on my one single Home Screen, and the rest I get to by using spotlight.

I don’t necessarily judge those of you who go with the “they stay where they installed” approach, I just have a hard time grasping it from my side. Haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Heeeey. That’s how I roll too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Same, it's actually triggering given how easy it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Which they then don't notice in the mass of useless bull.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you ever tried unsubscribing from LinkedIn notifications? The are like 300 and you have to do them all individually

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I never subscribed in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the question is what series of horrible life events led to you needing the linkedin app on your phone in order for this to be an issue?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Posts like this make me realize it's probably a blessing that I can't afford a smart watch considering how terminally online I already am.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's had the opposite effect for me, in the past when I'd catch myself doom scrolling I had only pulled the phone out to make sure I hadn't missed a message and then just didn't put it back down.

Now I'll just glance at the watch and see if it's important or not.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LinkedIn is garbage. I was trying to do some things on mobile. Nope. Gotta download the app. Switch to desktop mode, okay now you can do the thing.

I loathe companies that force their app by making an almost unusable mobile experience. If I didn't use LinkedIn to keep up with networks professionally, I wouldn't be using it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's far easier to control your experience, harvest your date, and feed you ads on an app.

Also keep in mind that on Android, apps will opt to use Webview, which Google has said they're injecting their web environment integrity bullshit into.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm an android developer, so I fully understand what you're saying which is why I absolutely refuse to use any app that I don't absolutely need. If it's simple enough, I'll just make my own app, haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair the issue is having a mobile view standard and a widescreen laptop / tablet view standard.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LinkedIn is the worst social media. I get far more annoyed reading that than any other social media.

But it's a nice place to keep an updated CV

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What does that mean

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For years I didn't know LinkedIn was considered a real website. I thought it was just a spam factory and all the profiles on the site were either fake or generated from barely ever correct scraped info. Like those celebrity info sites that appear on Google but for business people. But no, somehow behind it all there's an actual company that the government knows about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I got my jobs thru there. Beats indeed and monster and all those other sites

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit, I just realized we have real life Dick Tracy watches now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To see random dudes on linkedin! What a time to be alive!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

"Meet Dave."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't mind being sent such a notification of the El Duderino abiding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not on my fucking wrist, pal!