Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:34:41 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

   • Captain Ron Jon
   @LostShakerOfSalt the blame for this can be laid at the feet of the boomers
   in their eternal greed, they've ruined the telephone as a means of communication
   all incoming calls that have not been scheduled in advance can be immediately dismissed as spam. it's never going to be anything of value, just some retard trying to sell you an extended warranty scam.
   furthermore, all outgoing calls that have not been scheduled in advance with a specific person can be assumed will never accomplish anything of value and most likely never even reach a human. want to talk to the bank about a suspicious transaction on your debit card? too fucking bad, you get a robot who will helpfully offer to read you the balance of your checking account and then hang up.
   • Embed this notice
     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:34:40 JST djsumdog

     in reply to

     • Captain Ron Jon

     I use to talk to people all the time on the phone in high school. Now I hate talking to people on the phone and prefer text or hang out in real life. I know people my age and older who really prefer phone calls. It's not an age thing. It's more rare for people to do calls, but there are a lot of people in every age range who prefer them.

     I think one of the big reasons I hate calls is the cellphone. With analog landlines, there was nearly no delay. Communication felt instant. Most still had a digital conversion in the loop, but the delay was unnoticeable.

     Today, the lag is always noticeable. All land lines are really shitty VoIP. Even with Zoom, Skype, whatever you use, there's a few ms delay that did not exist in the 90s. I fucking hate it.

   • Embed this notice
     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:52:38 JST djsumdog

     in reply to

     • Curtis Rock, SkD
     • Captain Ron Jon
     e-mail? Shit, I stopped checking work e-mail over six years (and three companies) ago! It's just a big bucket where all the logs go.
   • Embed this notice
     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:52:39 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

     in reply to

     • djsumdog
     • Curtis Rock, SkD
     • Captain Ron Jon
     @curtis @djsumdog @LostShakerOfSalt i will never understand the boomer thing where they have a technical question, but refuse to state it over email and insist on a phone call, despite the fact that the only possible answer they can receive on this call is "I don't know, we'll need a few hours to research this"
   • Embed this notice
     Curtis Rock, SkD (curtis@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:52:40 JST Curtis Rock, SkD

     in reply to

     • djsumdog
     • Captain Ron Jon

     @djsumdog @skylar @LostShakerOfSalt My reason for avoiding phone conversations is asynchronous vs synchronous communications.

     Phone conversations are synchronous

   • Embed this notice
     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:54:59 JST Zergling_man

     in reply to

     • djsumdog
     • Curtis Rock, SkD
     • Captain Ron Jon
     @curtis @LostShakerOfSalt @skylar @djsumdog Imagine if businesses supported voicemail.
     
     I would still not get a fone number.
   • Embed this notice
     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:54:59 JST djsumdog

     in reply to

     • Curtis Rock, SkD
     • Zergling_man
     • Captain Ron Jon
     My last company where I was in office didn't even issue people desk phones. We got USB headsets to use with a Cisco VoIP thing .. and I never used it because I switched to Linux and never bothered to setup an SIP app with it, and they moved all SIP/VoIP to Teams anyway.