• Lemminary@lemmy.world
    50·
    18 days ago

    Pro tip: You can customize the notification sound now, even on the free tier at the OS level. Don’t tell the conservatives.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      55·
      18 days ago

      Do different apps have different notification sounds? I’m a vibrate only person but I thought a notification sound was a notification sound, not some custom ring tone.

      • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
        10·
        18 days ago

        ig it depends on OS? like maybe on IOS apps can choose their own sound? i always had a system wide notification tone on android

        • Anivia@feddit.org
          18·
          18 days ago

          Android has a default notification sound, which you can change in the srttings, and most apps will not overwrite that. But apps have the option to have a different one. Snapchat for example has a custom one.

          It’s pretty surprising that an app like Grindr would make use of that option, I think they have a high amount of users that would like to avoid others knowing they use the app.

        • jcg@halubilo.social
          12·
          18 days ago

          On Android some apps have their own notification sounds, too. It’s very common with chat apps and other social apps (dating, language exchange, that kind of thing) and some very annoying games that earn a pretty quick disable or uninstall from me.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        2·
        17 days ago

        Some apps have a choice of sounds, and you can also select notification sounds through your OS, or turn them off altogether, which is what I’ve done. I don’t need every app I have beeping whenever THEY think something is important.

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
          1·
          17 days ago

          Hmm I haven’t seen this option before.

          I definitely make use of controlling which apps buzz, and the priority setting which makes them go bz, bzzz, bz bz, etc. I don’t know where I get this trait from (it doesn’t seem to be a generational thing) but I feel it’s rude to have a phone’s volume on when others are around.

          Being in a room with a bunch of people all watching things on their phones with thr volume on annoys me to no end. I feel bad even having it ding when others are around.

  • Flickerby@lemmy.zip
    34·
    17 days ago

    I have an uncle who’s a homosexual “pray away the gay” ultra conservative Christian currently married to a woman. Scummiest most hateful bigoted abuser I’ve ever had the displeasure of meeting. He recently had a heart attack, unfortunately he recovered, but I would like to give satan another shot at the soul he’s owed. Alas, I moved leagues away to get away from those people so no dice. Good idea to bank though.

  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    29·
    17 days ago

    Now I feel a need to know: does Grindr really have a custom notification noise, one that sounds different from any other app!?

    • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      19·
      17 days ago

      Yes it does. The notification noise is actually linked in a couple of other comments in this thread. I’m ace so I’ve never used the app personally but it’s rather distinctive to at least my ear and unlike any notification noise I’ve ever heard in a default Android environment. idk about Apple, but after hearing the noise myself I 100% believe that anyone who has used that app for any appreciable amount of time would absolutely recognize that notification noise immediately.

    • Flickerby@lemmy.zip
      16·
      17 days ago

      I’ve seen a buncha stories similar to this one about people freaking out thinking it’s coming from their phone. I have to imagine it’s some big unique thing that puts you in mind of half naked navy sailors swabbing the deck to show tunes or something with how often I’ve seen it refrenced

  • poke@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    18 days ago

    Bonus points if you make this trick work during grace without everyone looking at you immediately.

  • FridaySteve@lemmy.world
    10·
    18 days ago

    Or your cousin with the conservative parents who isn’t out and still lives at home…

    For God’s sake please don’t do this.

    Edit: So go ahead and use other people’s sexuality as a joke. Your business, not mine.

    • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      17 days ago

      idk, this might just be me being ace and not understanding the tribulations of people that actually have a desire to have sex. But as a trans person who has been in the closet, I can’t imagine going on Grindr if I was gay but still living with conservative parents and closeted. That feels like a risk I’d be way too scared to take.

      I’m also always down to use my experience being closeted against bigots. As has at least 90% of gay men I’ve known. Like yeah, making my identity/sexuality The Joke feels bad. But I feel like when that joke is being played specifically on a bigot a lot of us get a lot of catharsis from it. Cuz at that point the joke isn’t “Being gay is bad” it’s “Welcome to the family cousin Jed” and the punchline is their freaking out about it.

      idk I’m kinda rambling now. I just feel like it’s different because in a lot of these cases it is the queer kids that were closeted and made fun of that are saying “Wouldn’t it be funny if we turned it around on them for once?”

      • FridaySteve@lemmy.world
        1·
        17 days ago

        Ok but I think making that joke using someone else’s minority status is pig behavior. But I was a teenager in the 90s when someone else thinking you’re gay could get you an ass-beating or get you fired from your job or worse (Matthew Shepard). Being an ally to lgbt folks in a lot of ways meant keeping your mouth shut way more than it meant speaking out. Maybe it’s different nowadays.

        • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          17 days ago

          It is a lot different nowadays. Generally speaking yes, it’s still considered a dick move to just out someone before they’re ready. But that’s not what this is. In this case it’s less about the “Being Gay” as it is about Grindr generally being something these conservative family members are doing behind their wives’ backs while also being openly homophobic.