193

What do normal people look at on their phones? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

118 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've been on Reddit for over a decade. But I'm done with that site and want to do something else. What do normal people look at on their phones? Is it all social media? Streaming?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Graphy@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Idk but wtf are people always doing on their phone in the car. Am I the weird one where I can’t even think of anything I’d like to do on my phone while driving? I can change media and text my wife all via voice control if I need to.

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

I used to try to use voice control for changing media when driving, but found it hilariously unreliable since it had to try to parse the voice command through the music. Is there a trick to that besides having a better mic I'm missing?

[-] Graphy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Idk what system you’re using but I use CarPlay and android auto. Both of them are able to mute when I press the chat button or if I yell “hey whatever”

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Older vehicle, so it's basically just the phone and either an aux cable or bluetooth receiver, so that probably explains some of it 😅

[-] indepndnt@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I dunno about everything, but my car has a talk button on the steering wheel, I think you press it to answer the phone or whatever, but when Android Auto is active, that button works the same as saying "OK Google". I would imagine it does something similar with CarPlay. Maybe you have a similar button?

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

In my car (2016), Bluetooth supports phone calls and that's it, so I have a separate Bluetooth receiver always plugged into my aux port. So I have to cycle music manually.

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Similar to the other person that replied to ya, I'm in an older vehicle so I don't have anything like that in mine, instead relying on either aux cable or bluetooth receiver to connect the phone to the audio system. It got to the point that I got a bluetooth media remote to get around the unreliability of voice commands.

this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024

193 points (96.6% liked)

Ask Lemmy

27145 readers

2025 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

Rules: (interactive)

1) Be nice and; have fun

Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them

2) All posts must end with a '?'

This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?

3) No spam

Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.

4) NSFW is okay, within reason

Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].

5) This is not a support community.

It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.