001 ➳ text; d.dixon

[dirtyredneck]

[He's been here a little bit. Hasn't engaged much. Figured he was having one hell of a fever dream after getting bit. Course, he couldn't remember getting bit, but what else could it have been? Only it hadn't gone away and the food he'd been eating seemed real enough and the people he'd been ignoring acted offended enough to be real, too.

So... maybe it was real. Weirder shit had happened.

And if it was, it might do him some good to actually start figuring his own shit out. Including how to actually use this thing.]

I ain't never used one of these
smart phones I think they're called
before. They had them before but I never
anyway I only ever had a flip phone
one I could text on.
How's this thing work?

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[bringbackgold]

Yes.

[ When Daryl doesn't take the phone, he takes over. The answer comes simply and easily. He navigates quickly through the phone. He's clearly used to using them. Social media's a big thing back home, and though he uses it infrequently, he still uses it. He doesn't seem too concerned about touching the screen too hard, either. He knows how hard it is to break or damage a phone.

He goes through the notifications settings, and turns off the sound and vibrate for them. That way he'll still get them, but he won't have sounds every time. ]

The alarm is easy.

[ It's different on every phone, he knows, but hopefully this one is easy. He backs out of everything, goes to his home screen, and presses his fingers hard on the screen. There's an option that pops up, and it gives him options to add the clock, an alarm, etc. He selects the alarm, and it drops a small tool on his screen. ]

Just click on this and you can set the time to whatever you need. You can change it anytime.

[dirtyredneck]

[Daryl leaned back a little when Otabek made the alarm button 'appear' on the screen. A little surprised- okay, a lot surprised. How the hell did that happen.

Still mostly keeping his hands to himself, he shifted his weight and nodded at the phone, pointing and circling his finger to indicate 'all of that']

How'd you do that?

[bringbackgold]

[ He can kind of see how phones would be an impressive piece of technology. He removes the icon that had dropped in, and does it again, this time - he goes through the steps that he had gone through. ]

I press on the screen, and wait for the options to add an alarm.

[ He's not overly gentle. Not worried about a phone breaking or anything like that. He has no reason to worry about it. When the option pops up, he waits a moment. ]

Just one tap and there's the alarm on here.

[ He moves the phone towards Daryl. ]

Just select that alarm, and you can set a time.

[dirtyredneck]

[this time Daryl did lean forward, looking just a bit nervous as one finger tentatively poked at the screen. His head jerked back as the alarm options appeared. He'd been prepared for it to not react at all and seeing it do something other than bring up the keyboard was just surprising enough. A smile ghosted across his lips before he repressed it and went about adding an alarm for an hour before he needed to be at the shop.]

Why do you gotta press and hold to get that? Why ain't it on there already?

[bringbackgold]

[ Otabek shrugs. He has no idea why this is the case, so there's no way he could start to explain. He only knows things about phones from experience. He's always had to use them for social media and things. You just pick things up. ]

Who knows.

[ The answer comes simply, but he's glad (even if it doesn't show on his face) that Daryl has figured this part out. Being able to set an alarm was a helpful trick. ]

You can even add multiple alarms.