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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023
  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you record your own voicemail greeting or do you just use whatever default thing your carrier does? If you do, do you make it funny or something?English
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    6 days ago

    I use discord daily, and I used to use skype, and xfire, and teamspeak, and ventrillo… Way way back when, I had a friend call me on the weekends so we could ‘voice chat’ while playing games.

    I think my whole circle is ‘anti-phone’ because when the phone rings, or when you have to make a call, it’s never good. Issues with the bank, bugging the mechanic to get your car fixed, calling insurance because they fucked up again, calling out for work because you’re sick, calling about a job/interview… Versus casual voice chat where you aren’t on edge the whole time, where you can set your headset down and get a drink, go to the bathroom… You aren’t chained to a physical location or object. Where you can ask someone to repeat themselves 3 times and not be struck off the interview list because of a poor cell connection. Phone calls are so… Stressful, limiting, requiring most or all of your attention. Scheduling things, calculating finances, making plans for a group, and you can’t go back and listen to the conversation again, you have to understand everything and get everything right, the first time…

    So even my best friends, when they call, and they know it’s a serious occurrence and they ‘would have texted but’, but the ringing still sets me on edge.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you record your own voicemail greeting or do you just use whatever default thing your carrier does? If you do, do you make it funny or something?English
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    6 days ago

    If anyone calls me, it’s either ‘my house is on fire and I’m simultaneously being robbed’ or I will go to their house and light them on fire.

    Anything short of a live emergency gets conveyed through text/pictures. This is universal for my friend circle. Just got shot and are in the ER? Picture. Just got clocked doing 115 in your prius because you are fighting shitting yourself in the middle of nowhere? Text. Doctors office wants to confirm my appointment next week? Text. My credit card has some unusual activity? Text, asking me to call them. The basement is flooded after a big storm? Picture. House actually on fire and you are freaking out waiting for the firefighters? Fine, call. And record a video while you’re at it.

    I don’t think I’ve ever left a voicemail. Ever. Text, email, sky writing, smoke signals. Just no calls.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?English
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    6 days ago

    Whenever I want, though I usually wait until someone else’s (family) phone goes EoL with security updates, then I get a new device (pixel) and they get my used device for whatever the going rate is for trade-in to G. They get a gently used phone at like 1/3rd the price I paid, I get a new shiny thing to geek out on, I trade in their device that was once my device to help contain the costs of the new device, and they stay secure which makes my life easier and keeps my nerves relatively-relaxed. The circle of liiiiiife~

    This fall will be different though, since I got the 10 fold this past year, so I won’t need/want a new phone, but a family member has the pixel 6 that will be going EoL. Probably help them trade in the 6 for an 11 and call it a day, keep my 10. Fall 2027 will be different, another pixel going EoL, so I might grab the 12 fold or whatever, pass down my 10 fold, trade in their 7 pro. Then everyone will be on security updates for… 7 years from release? So we won’t need new devices until 5 years from now, that being our 8 pro.