Let me share my screen to you

We get clients that send us screenshots but they use their phone to photograph their laptop

When they want to say "I don't understand" they say "You're not on mute but I still can't hear you"

It'll get shortened to "lemmy" like "god be with you" became "goodbye"

You know, maybe my grandparents had it right.

It is weird that computers give so little sensory feedback for what they're doing. Flashlights go click. Cassette decks go clack-vrrrr. Whiteboards go squeek-squeek. Screen sharing goes... nothing, just a small mostly white rectangle on top of my much bigger rectangle until a disembodied, 4 kHz-wide simulacrum of someone's voice from halfway around the world says "yeah we see your screen". Unnatural is what it is.

If that sort of thing entertains you, you should check out Time Bandits (it's from Apple TV originally I think but can be found on the high seas no drama), and one of the story threads deals with a girl of early secondary school age, left in a prehistoric time - and she ascends to being a leader, educating her tribe with her 2020's saaarh laaahndan banter.

When they head back to find her, the tribe are all conversing like a mob of youths outside a McDonald's on a Saturday afternoon. It's absolutely brilliantly written and well worth a watch.

"Damnit my airpods have paired with my phone instead of my laptop again."

"I... n't receive.. doc from... until yester... will repl... ... rry the batteries in... pods dying... rejoin call on my phone."

Fucking airpods. I hate them and I've never even owned any.

President Bonifyyd Johnson addresses the crowd

"My fellow Americans. I can hear you. Can you hear me?"