Not everyone is able to text. Not everyone has access to or can afford a smart phone. Refusing to take a voice call is a clear sign of social ineptitude, imo - if you really can't be bothered to do that I shudder to think of what you must be like in face-to-face interactions. Toughen up.
I never said one should refuse texting, I said one shouldn't refuse calling. And as for my technological aptitude, I think I do quite well. But go off.
I mean, I'm not a programmer or anything like that but I can be comfortable with just about any OS you put in front of me with minimal time to familiarize - though admittedly I'm most comfortable with any of numerous flavours of Linux desktop/Android, and least enthused about using Windows. I 've got a lot of practice problem-solving though nowadays that seems to be less and less frequent.
I'm not great at touch typing as I have a tremor, but thankfully I have friends who know they can text me but I'm likely to call them back if I need to reply in any depth. On a physical keyboard my tremor doesn't really interfere with my ability to type though; actually I enjoy typing on a physical keyboard and recently upgraded to a Thinkpad so it's been better than ever.
I do occasionally use scrpy so I can type on my phone from my laptop, but that's only practical at home obviously.
edit: Also, I'm kind of laughing to myself at the thought anyone could think a friggin trans woman on the fediverse could possibly be inept with technology :P
I've worked on the phone too and it wore on me too. But I guess I just don't think of calls with friends or family as being on the same level as calls with customers?
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future.
As more and more details are being revealed about Rep. Lauren Boebert’s wild night out in Denver last weekend — having been kicked out of “Beetlejuice” the musical for vaping and just generally being a public nuisance with her male companion — a full picture is coming together of what the other theater patrons around...
Edit: Surprised at all the vegans in this thread. I didn’t think there were so many of you. I’m glad you care so much about animal rights, that you’re willing to forego eating them and using products made from them. If you’re not vegan and have moral objections for this, maybe you should look at yourself first and all...
He has the look of that kid who was disliked in school who you felt bad for, but that was only because you were new at that school and hadn't been around long enough - and soon you realized that kid totally deserved it because he was a creepy asshole.
posting this from a thinkpad instead of my main pc just for the meme (thelemmy.club)
Please, at least text me to ask if I'm ready (programming.dev)
People Prefer Electric Shocks to Being Alone With Their Thoughts (www.theatlantic.com)
A new study finds we’re not very good at entertaining ourselves. By Matthew Hutson
Why does lemmy make me have to make these images so pixilated (lemmy.zip)
10 years from now. You've got this! (lemmy.ca)
Far-Right Activists are Planning an Anti-Sex-Ed Convoy Targeting Alberta Teachers’ Association Building (pressprogress.ca)
Footage shows Boebert and her date fiddling with each other's privates at "Beetlejuice" musical (www.salon.com)
As more and more details are being revealed about Rep. Lauren Boebert’s wild night out in Denver last weekend — having been kicked out of “Beetlejuice” the musical for vaping and just generally being a public nuisance with her male companion — a full picture is coming together of what the other theater patrons around...
Gaming Then vs Gaming Now (feddit.de)
Meme transcription: A table comparing the steps to start a game ‘then’ vs. ‘now’....
I call this the fart centipede. (lemmy.world)
Putin’s adviser says U.S. is using brainwashing to make gay Ukrainian super-soldiers (www.lgbtqnation.com)
The first human organ created inside an animal opens the door to manufacturing ‘spare parts’ for people (english.elpais.com)
Edit: Surprised at all the vegans in this thread. I didn’t think there were so many of you. I’m glad you care so much about animal rights, that you’re willing to forego eating them and using products made from them. If you’re not vegan and have moral objections for this, maybe you should look at yourself first and all...
'I am not going to take that!' Ron DeSantis screams as Black man blames him for racist shooting (www.rawstory.com)
How did you get in there?? (lemmy.ml)
Upvoting a factually incorrect comment because it sounds nice, and downvoting a factually correct comment because it sounds bad. (lemmy.world)
Normal people find Hunter Biden obsession 'incomprehensible' (www.dailykos.com)
OC Kind of obsessed with this game lately (Windjammers - Neo Geo AES, 1994) (imgur.com)