I have anxiety and I didn't mind much when people called me, because I have caller ID, I could just ignore the unknown callers. But then emergency alerts are now a thing in my country and my phone has started to whine and ring multiple times a year, like the end of the world is coming, to tell me a child is missing, or that a big storm is coming. Plus, during the pandemic, my government thought it would be a brilliant idea to send general messages to the public using that emergency system..
The most frustrating part is that I can't disable nor mute those alerts. My only way not to have my phone blasting the emergency alarm unpredictably, is to mute it permanently. I'm now missing calls but on the positive side, I don't notice amber and emergency alerts.
I tried disabling them on two phones using Android 11 and 13. I can slide the sliders to "off" but it doesn't change anything. I also tried to disable them using adb. Alas even if everything is disabled, the phone still blasts the alarm.
Apparently those are mandatory and you're not supposed to be able to disable them.
I'm the weird one who puts my phone on loud when I sleep. If anyone is actually calling me and not being marked as spam, it is probably a work or family emergency. Otherwise I just expect a message.
Yes. By convention based on old reasons though. When computer screens became common they were low resolution, and a whole genre of serif fonts were made to look good on screens and low-end printers. Good fonts, but adapted to look good in pixel grids. Microsoft made Georgia, Adobe had Utopia to serve the same need. A font like Centaur would just not survive on a screen. Sans serifs worked better, especially the ones with straight lines, Helvetica is easier than Optima on a screen. But now... phone screens and regular screens are good enough to display serifs, but now we are used to sans serifs online. But there's no real reason for them anymore.