Re: OT: spam phone calls

From	Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid>
Subject	Re: OT: spam phone calls
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, uk.telecom.mobile, comp.mobile.android
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Date	2025-03-22 17:06 +0000
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:10:58 -0400, Newyana2 wrote:

[snip]

>    It's similar here. Cellphones are increasingly required for
> some transactions. When we got COVID shots during the pandemic, I had to
> stand in the old losers' line and show my drivers license to an
> impatient college student because I didn't have the data on a cellphone.
> It wasn't too bad,
> though. My hair is gray enough that they just assume I'm a dimwitted old
> man and most of them put up with me.

I got my first shots in Mar 2021. I had to make a reservation on a website 
(there were limited ones available) and show the email acknowledgment 
(printout) to get in.

>     I currently have a landline that's VOIP. I think it costs
> $16/month. Why? Because it's convenient. The sound is good. It has a
> handy answering machine. I don't have to charge it. People call me from
> their cellphones and want to pretend that it works well. It doesn't. The
> sound is often poor.

Yes, that's what I have too (over fiber). I changed from the old copper 
lines in about 2006 because of the poor call quality.

>     My $40 TracFone costs me $20 every 3 months. I keep
> it in my glove compartment, turned off. If I need to make a call when
> away from home, I use it. Why do I do that?
> Because I don't want people to be able to text me. I don't want people
> interrupting when I'm doing errands or taking a walk. I'm not a surgeon
> or a drug dealer. Anyone trying to reach me can wait until I get home. I
> also don't shop online via cellphone. I don't use Ubers. I don't call
> DoorDash. I don't use apps. I know how to read a map. I don't like the
> way that cellphones collapse space/time. If I'm out walking in the
> woods, enjoying spring sunlight, I have no interest in someone
> interrupting me to ask if I want to bid on a job or meet next Tuesday
> for coffee. That can wait until I get home.

I always considered SMS to be for things that don't require immediate 
response.

-- 
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"If the factory pays taxes and the church does not, it follows that the
church will some day own the factory." -- Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The
Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

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