[tde-users] Re: Reliably play a sound without disrupting the screen? [offtopic]

On Sunday 20 November 2022 11:28:56 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: snip Well, as somebody else said earlier in this thread, these smartphones are becoming necessary for almost everything. True, I am getting old enough that I can avoid being forced to change my way of life, but there is also a kind of social stigma against those who are not fervent believers in the wholesome goodness of smartphones; the Apple-users are the worst, as they are the most trusting, because of course they cannot actually tinker with their devices at all. (I think jailbreaking iPhones has almost disappeared, or I don't hear about it any more.) And while I would prefer to stick with a landline, and my only computer is a desktop (with maybe a laptop for travel), I find that I do not live in such a world, that at every turn I am pressured to use my smartphone to verify, or pay, or to do practically anything. The rule of smartphones has indirectly interfered with my travel plans, with my work, my finances, and I am trying to extricate myself from this trap. Since I cannot, at present, get rid of my smartphone completely, then the next best thing is to try to get control over it. Whenever I can live elsewhere, then I hope to get far enough away from dense urban areas that I don't need a smartphone, and a landline and/or dumbphone will do. Yes, there is still such a place in this world, where large areas have no cellular coverage at all. While they have discovered the internet, everybody seems blissfully unconcerned about smartphones, because they can't get a signal, anyway. Bill