Re:Books Won't Die
by icebraining on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:51PM
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> I carry a small one in my pocket that bothers me constantly through the day
Personally, I don't get why people put up with that, and then feel forced to escape their devices. I put up with Slack on my work machine, but on my personal laptop nothing can interrupt me, and even on my phone only calls (which I rarely get) and alarms can do so, everything is on the drawer for when I get to them. I know the defaults are often terrible, but it generally only takes a few minutes once to change them.
The annoyances of paper books, on the other hand, can't be configured or scripted away :)
Personally, I don't get why people put up with that, and then feel forced to escape their devices. I put up with Slack on my work machine, but on my personal laptop nothing can interrupt me, and even on my phone only calls (which I rarely get) and alarms can do so, everything is on the drawer for when I get to them. I know the defaults are often terrible, but it generally only takes a few minutes once to change them.
The annoyances of paper books, on the other hand, can't be configured or scripted away :)