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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If it's important they will leave a voicemail.

Perpetually silenced.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Could be really urgent. Happens sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes that's a great way to relay really urgent stuff that needs reply right away. lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Whenever it's my immediate family or partner I'm paranoid that they're dying or something, so probably can't send a text

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They can leave a voicemail

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

And who knowns when that is being listened to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They can leave a message about how urgent it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just allowed my voicemail to fill up and kept terminating the app for that and now no one can leave me a voicemail.

Everyone who ever left me a voicemail would tell me what the problem was in that then when I called them back, they told me everything they already said in the voicemail.

Well why leave a voicemail at all if you're just going to tell me all of that all over again?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Because they expect you to listen to the voicemail and then call back at your convenience. If you hate it, get a visual voicemail app to transcribe them for you.

That way, you'll at least be able to side-eye it and consider helping when your mother calls because she has fallen in the tub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you hate it, get a visual voicemail app to transcribe them for you.

visual voicemail uses cellular data and won't go through wifi. At least not on any smartphone I've ever had not that I know of anyway.

And most people I know who still leave voicemails don't speak clearly enough to be understood by that speech to text system so it comes up as a bunch of nonsense 99% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That's not my experience, I love the feature.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I just put my phone into airplane mode when I don't want to pick up. I think it's better than just declining or waiting for the call to time out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I never want to pick up, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Or just turn it off for a bit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Google 6 phone lets me screen the call.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is that the guy from Aqua?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Nice. Just in case you weren't joking: it's from the movie The Mummy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The 1999 cinematic masterpiece starring Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser? Great flick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was joking but I appreciate your effort to help out and include people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I tried finding an image where René isn't smiling. It's hard.

Edit: smiling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Btw, how do I embed images? Do I have to download the image first?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I can now just tell an AI to handle the call for me. It's probably another AI anyway. It's like letting your dog off leash at the dog park.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Just use airplane mode to hang up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Everyone in my family has voicemail message that says "Sorry I missed your call, I don't check voicemail, please text."

I hate phone calls. Never answered the phone before the rise of cell phones, avoided getting a cell phone until they were wee computers, because the last thing I want is to be perpetually available by phone, still don't answer the phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I think it's Imhotep from the Brendan Frasier The Mummy movie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

And he is extremely memeable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

IM-HO-TEP

IM-HO-TEP

IM-HO-TEP

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I don't know if you were waiting for a serious answer, but here you go.

Chakotay on Star Trek Voyager was played by Robert Beltran. Imhotep in The Mummy was played by Arnold Vosloo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Put your phone on airplane mode. The call will end immediately and the caller will see "call failed"