the way you worded this sounds as though there is no justification possible for not wanting to do phone calls.

There are the more common reasons for not appreciating calls such as introversion (which you can’t easily remove as though it’s a band-aid) as well as generally being too tired or overworked to do a call at that time.

Theres also, less commonly, neurodivergent traits that make phone calls very overwhelming, such as autistic folk’s over analysis of how they may sound, what they say and the tone and other characteristics of the person on the other side, or ADHD folk’s executive dysfunction, effectively preventing ease in taking a phone call in the first place, and many other neurotypes having differing traits.

It’s not an issue of people being scared by phone calls most of the time, it can simply be apathy, inconvenience, and other aspects that prevent genuinely wanting to take a phone call.

For myself, I hate phone calls unless I’m on a commute with people I know since I know I won’t be disturbing them by calling someone else, or at times I have nothing provisioned for a specific time of day. I’m not weak willed, im not stupid, I just am neurodivergent, possibly with ADHD and autism (although not entirely sure, I don’t want to completely agree with my self diagnosis until I’m close to getting assessed).

Lastly, I don’t blame you for taking this point of view, it’s natural for many people to think this even if they have a wide perspective, it’s just better to dive into the reasons why these phenomena happen.

Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby type shit

I wish an AI operating system was just a bunch of microscopic AI models that only load when needed and run on device and have a genuine assistive purpose, instead of “Oh, HahA leTs maKe The comPuTer ContrOL iTsElf aNd tELL UsEr FalSe InFormAtioN”

With full disrespect, I don’t fucking care about your opinion

Kind regards,

biggerbogboy

And don’t get me started on the times you imagine yourself doing a task and then completely believing you actually did it until someone gets mad at you for it, it’s funny but also kinda ass

being a 1 with ADHD is crazy, like I can be in the middle of a class and zone out and start visualising myself walking around the campus in incredible detail, or FPV droning inside a friend’s house, or really anything I can think of, although that said it takes a fair bit of effort to keep it going beyond a certain amount of time.

Honestly, I’ve been planning to install it on my media laptop for a while and I think I’ve found the perfect excuse for myself to do it; yesterday I turned it on to the windows 11 data recovery screen, which took an hour to fix the damn thing.

I have actually installed CachyOS on one of my spares and it’s pretty damn good so far, and it’s a really shitty speced school laptop from a couple years back.

What I am concerned about though is the fact my media laptop is an Asus vivobook 15 with screenpad, and I’m not awfully sure if the GPU (mx250) would be as fast as it currently is under windows (or work at all), as well as if the screenpad would work as a touch monitor or a regular touchpad, since I’m not sure which I’d prefer honestly.

c/usernamechecksout

I find it funny when they read my school emails and then accuse themselves of phishing after they accuse me of holding malware in my drive, icing on the cake really, I won’t even need this email in a month.

That said though, just like others have mentioned, making users opt out of getting all the data wringed out of their account isn’t the most ethical strategy and frankly it’s a bit over the top.

They already scan everything from your Google drive to your YouTube recommended, google news feed, docs files, and just you browsing and using that as data for advertising and their AI. I don’t think emails are the best source of personalised information nor would assist in training new Gemini models unless they want to build an email spam bot.

The content is also AI generated. NotebookLM and it’s feature to make videos based on sources the user provides generates a full video, and it’s 1 click unless the user wants to add a prompt for the video. A dead giveaway for this full video being generated is the thumbnail, which is from the classic visual style preset and is usually the first slide.

There is also the NotebookLM watermark in the bottom right, which is also a giveaway.

I have a sneaking suspicion that they just graduated from nappies

Good thanks how are you

I haven’t watched the video at all but from the thumbnail it’s a NotebookLM video. The only time I would remotely trust or even recognise an AI video is if I choose to generate one, even then though, they’re usually shit.

I just keep getting more and more grateful for living here huh

This some major profit

Funny how only 2 people upvoted this

Sounds like a meth-cocaine orgasm is optimal then!

I find it so funny how it fluctuates so much between days, like one day I can read a 15 paragraph article in a solid 4 minutes, but the next day I can barely even read the time

Why orinch shiny

frst thing I thought when I saw the first image was “Freeman, stop fucking with the microwave”