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You don't know what else to say and I don't know what else to tell you. Those people would also be upset if anything else outside of a dot popped up on their di
by dkonofalski 5y ago
You don't know what else to say and I don't know what else to tell you. Those people would also be upset if anything else outside of a dot popped up on their display, wouldn't they? Or are they just against dots for some reason? Hardware I/O devices exist for precisely this reason. They literally only exist to be able to control what gets output outside of the OS. Just because you personally never had an OS alert or something else pop-up doesn't mean it's not possible or that it doesn't happen. It does happen, usually unintentionally. That's why we have I/O devices.
- radus 5y agoHere's what it boils down to: notifications = low probability orange dot = 100% The risk of an embarrassing notification got traded for the certainty of the orange dot.
- rasz 5y agoalt tabbing by accident to a folder full of goat pr0n thumbnails = quite routine in schools/during presentations
- dkonofalski 5y agoIt's not 100% unless you're using an input to record audio and then it's there for a reason. 99% of the people in these threads aren't going to see this during their PowerPoints because they're not recording anything and the 1% that do and care about the dot should be using a hardware I/O device anyways because the OS can do a lot more than just display a dot. Additionally, applications can also fix this themselves by using Apple's APIs.