The future is now old man!
Call me cynical but if someone doesn’t send a message after trying to call it’s either because it’s not important or because they want you on the line so they can do ‘objection handling’ to you.
This applies to people you actually know as well as sales people.
indeed
Nah man, if it’s not important enough for a call it must not be that important, if you text me I might not even open the message
Next time you get a unknown caller, they won’t be so unknown anymore https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/
I searched the # of a place I work for and it said it was from some random lady in Florida l
Well we’ve been trying to find a good time to tell you this, might as well be now. You actually work for some random lady in Florida. Sorry about all the misdirection, she’s a very secretive lady
At work we are required to call customers with a non trackable phone number. So everytime we call someone, it only shows “unnknown number”. I don’t get it how most people would answer that. I would never do that.
The hospital recently started calling with hidden numbers. So now im back to picking up those calls again because those are calls I can’t really miss.
Why would the hospital do that? Don’t they realize nobody answers calls that can’t be identified?
Lots of reasons, none of them excusable. They could want to stop people from calling back and are too lazy/can’t figure out how to set up an inbound call back route to go to a “Don’t call us back at this number” voice message; they could have switched phone services (or they’re utilizing a call center/got a new call center) that masks automatically. Those are the two that spring off the top of my head.
I don’t, ‘google screen’ answers it and transcribes the call. Funnily enough I’ve not had a single call transcribed. So that’s a search and block/report.
Community Blood Center. The very polite vampires are the only ones who put up with Google screen for me. They really like my blood.
Yeah it just looks shady.
I can’t stop thinking about that keyboard. What is it?
Just realized he is using that lol. It is a fantastic keyboard. A good way to get sucked in to the custom keyboard hobby 😭
As others have replied it’s a kinesis. If you want to build one look into dactyl shells, amoeba single switch PCBs, and a therapist for your sadism
Kinesis advantge.
Sorry OP, but we’re urgently trying to contact you about your cars extended warranty! We save car owners major money from the shock of expensive repairs with affordable extended coverage! For as low as a cup of coffee a day you can have the peace of mind when it comes to car repairs.
“Dang man, wish you had called a month ago. Just totaled my car when I got a DUI and I’ve lost my license. Do you insure bicycles by chance?”
The only time I’ve answered an unknown number in the last decade plus is when I was applying for jobs. Everything else goes to voicemail.
Voicemail is dead too. It just gets filled with a hundred 1 seconds hangups from spam calls being sent straight to it. Every legit person and business will either show up on your ID, sent an appointment text, or an email.
Í found an option at the phone provider to just ignore all unknown numbers. My phone doesn’t even ring.
Mine does that too.
It sends them to voicemail.And my voicemail message is, "Don’t leave a voicemail, text if it’s important. "
Googling just gives pages and pages of SEO crap and scams. Any actual decent site to look up a number on?
Yeah Google actually. If it’s a legit number a business name will pop up the seo pages are all scam numbers
It used to give good info, maybe 10 years ago. And remember when everyone’s number was in the phone book? Why isn’t there an online version of that anymore? Not this “buy now” scam stuff.
There really ought to be a crowdsourced database. It could even use AP.
I’d prefer to talk on the phone, you get through way more like that
Imagine having your desk at work setup like this. Who the hell puts the monitor off to the side like that? My neck would kill me after 5 mins
I could see it happening if your job primarily involves talking to people sat on the other side of the desk.
It’s for people who always work in front of a film crew so the camera can see their faces
If I don’t recognize the number (meaning it’s not already in my contacts), then you can leave a message. 98% of the time it’s a scam anyways, and the other 2% of the time it’s a doctor’s office confirming your appointment.
My sister is aggressively extroverted, and I am about as introverted. She insists on talking over the phone. All the time. I have to recover from it.
I have a sibling I have literally told to stop calling me who still calls me.
People are silly.
yall been googling phone numbers? i just press the power button once.
It trickier when you’re actually expecting a call but you don’t know what number they will call from, like a job recruiter.
Honestly I just screen these calls as well, call them back immediately if they leave a relevant voicemail, and apologize for not picking up as “the spam and scam calls have got so prevalent that I screen literally every call these days.”
I had a recruiter just today laugh and say “yeah, it’s gotten pretty bad, I do the same thing.” So it’s not like they are going to hold it against you these days.
I got a Pixel 8 recently and it can have AI answer and screen the call for you. I just do that.
Doesn’t work on grapheneos unfortunately. Unless I’m doing something wrong
As far as I’m aware it’s just a normal program, not “AI”
The feature itself advertised that it uses Bard when it was walking through all the first time popups. That’s Google’s AI isn’t it?
Weird, I’ve been using this on my pixel 6 for a long time and I don’t even thing bard was a thing when this came out
Probably depends on the device? My sister’s 7 has no AI features either. The 8’s full of it.
They should have just called the pixel 8 the pixel AI then lol
