The future is now old man!
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.
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.
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
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I can’t stop thinking about that keyboard. What is it?
Kinesis advantge.
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
That used to be a good practice, but scammers spoof caller ID now. So that doesn’t work anymore
Me not even Googling it because every number is fake anyway.
Funnily enough, I was returning a call the other day from an 800 number I was mostly expecting that lead to a Philippine call center and thought “If it was a scammer it’d just be pretending to be America”
Even ending up being legitimate. Wild times. Effective government, yay.
My job requires phone calls (which people asked for!) it is frustrating how many unanswered voicemails I leave every day.
And it’ll be a cold day in hell when I give out my cellphone number to a customer.
Me wearing a suit to use Google.
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.
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
Surprised that isn’t what the 9 will be called. It’s supposed to have even more AI features. Heck, the 8 Pro apparently can do some things the regular 8 can’t because the 8 only has 8GB of RAM.
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’d prefer to talk on the phone, you get through way more like that
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. I do not live anywhere near Florida
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.
