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[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Seeing him in Leemy makes me confused.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago
[–] three@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 month ago
[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Checking voicemail?

Sure grandma, let's get you to bed.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I just got a call while sleeping and woke up to late so I couldn't answer, don't know the number. They didn't leave a message and now I can't go back to sleep, even though I could have slept another two hours. Still debating whether I should call back the number....

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You should not. If it's a legitimate entity who needs something from you, they will call again, email, text, snail mail or knock on your door. If it's a scammer they still probably will call again, but at least you won't have marked your number as active.

In short, there's no benefit to but some risk involved in calling back.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny enough posting this gave me the confidence to call them. It was a legit call but regarding sth. that already had been taken care of in the meantime.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Fair enough, good job getting it resolved.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I have my phone set to do-not-disturb when I sleep. Only my family can get through in case of emergency.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

You know what really sucks? This hasn’t always been the way we experienced the world. Unlike the next generation, we had a small window where things were normal, where you could leave your house and bad news could wait. You could be free to be alone and as far away from everyone as you wanted.

Maybe the average person likes being connected all the time, but it has destroyed my brain, my creativity, just everything.

I held out on getting a cell phone with constant connectivity until 2019 when my wife made me get service because we were having a baby. My magic jack (and the app that came later) were enough for me. I could leave my home and experience true freedom from the world. Everyone knew I didn’t have service so no one was upset when they couldn’t reach me. It was, “hey, call me when you get home. You really need a real phone man.”

I feel like I experience no freedom whatsoever.

The best time of my life, the most creative time of my life, the most I ever read, the most I ever accomplished, I did by refusing to have cable, internet, or a phone back when I first moved out on my own. I wrote songs, short stories, tried painting, etc.

I require hours and hours of being completely uninterrupted to do anything and that just isn’t the world I live in anymore.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

I relate to this as a gen-z with bad social anxiety

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

As someone who's got a voicemail notification sitting on the top of his phone right now that I've been avoiding checking all morning I feel this in my bones.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago