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Holy shit this made me laugh way harder than it should have.
I remember as a kid in the 70’s racing to the phone when it rang so I could answer it before my sister. Nowadays when the phone rings I stop and wait until the ringing stops, then I may have a look.
I blame spam calls for this
Unless I’m expecting to talk to someone, into DND mode it goes straight away. I’ll check on it when I’m in the mood.
Just gently toss? Or yeet it so it skips?
Then you miss out on that gentle “splooip”.
But it’s sooo satisfying when your shiny new “slimmer than any other phone before” breaks your prior record for number of skips.
i like the big screens though. better for watching, uh, netflix. yeah, netflix.
Okay but is your left wrist made of steel? How do you hold a giant tablet? Im sorry, but bigger isnt always practical.
titanium, actually
Oof, sorry for whatever caused that. Glad youve found the strength in your disability
oh i earned it. snowboarding flip
I don’t live near a lake—will an ocean do?
The meme doesnt say. Can you try and get back to us?
Phone washes up on beach a week later. Ominous drumbeats sound in the distance.
WHAT YEAR IS IT
Now I’m picturing the next 2001 sequel & the monoliths all turn out to be alien smartphones.
Oh shit. Seconding this.
i have defended phone calls as the ultimate way to get something done and i will continue to do so
Give me the paper trail that comes with an email conversation over a phone call any day.
Or most days at least. Some things are just easier to discuss by voice. But not many.
You should see the documentation we get from the orderer of our current project, we basically have to call two meetings a day just to decipher it
Yes. Crimes. But critically; not over the computer.
Im not coherent over voice, cant talk whioe looking at my calendar but theres an expectation of continuous exchange, no time to think about words, interrupting everything else im doing so im gonna resent you substantially. Plus a lot of people use it for deniable gaslighting bullshit where they can just imagine a conversation that happened and act on that-and i will not talk to those people in a volatile mefium without recording and transcription, which they never agree to, and it seems offensive to bring up.
Better to just stick to text unless you need privacy-which in cheap buildings with thin walls and a cartiers that record and analyze everything; a phone call hasnt been for about a century. My biggest phone phrase is ‘let me look into that and get back to you’.
I find if someone cant communicate over text, they just can’t communicate.
Sometimes you need back and forth which over email can take days. You can’t talk while looking at your calendar? Guess what, you say “give me 30 seconds to open my calendar”. Or 60. However much you need. People gaslight or bullshit? You follow up the call with an email “as we discussed on the phone, x y and z, and we agreed not to do a b nor c”. If someone can’t communicate over phone, they just can’t communicate.
Cool. I can text that too. I can do it without saying it to the 17 adjacent apartments or nearby cubicles.
“as we discussed on the phone…”
To which they say
“What the fuck?”
Or
“new phone who dis?”
It’s not helpful
pithy bitchy ‘no u’ because you’re insecure as fuck
Wow that explains a lot about why youre like this. Call me if you want to actually communicate, i guess.
Then you don’t do what discussed or escalate to a manager. Not that this has ever happened to me in my life, people are not cartoon villains.
Call me if you want to actually communicate, i guess.
I don’t have a reason to want to communicate with you in particular, have a record of our interaction or any specific outcome.
You’re not actually communicating right now though, this is just text. ‘I’ may as well not exist, you’re just typing into the void.
Did something happen to piefed? All the images are broken.
No, and viewing this post from Lemmy.world works just fine using the web UI - perhaps it is an app issue?
It’s back to normal now. It was broken for me on web, too, even straight from blahaj.zone
No, i live in southern california, this advice is useless to me.
Why didn’t I think of that dot GIF
