[FirmwareBurner]

Can't concur at all

Won't work where I live now in south-centeal Europe (Austria ) where everything is archaic and most services are still done via phone calls like in the past: appointments for plumbers, doctors, recruiter call-backs to job applications, etc.

Almost none of those services here use email or apps as the default, everyone seems to prefer sync communication so they first tries to reach you on phone. If you don't answer or call back they'll assume you're ghosting them and don't need the appointment/service anymore and you'll miss out on important issues. Sometimes they'll leave a voicemail telling you to call them back when you can, so you can never really escape calls here without emigrating.

You can say we both live in completely different bubbles but the existence of one does not invalidate the other.

[eurekin]

I'm from Poland. It's just over the course of years most of the services became messenger contacts, for various reasons, but most common one was the need to reliably exchange pictures

[FirmwareBurner]

And you do need a reliable modem to reliability exchange pictures.

[eurekin]

Yeah, and most of the time I do it on wifi. Still, most of the actual voice GSM part of my phones communication is used by salespeople

[FirmwareBurner]

Sure but when you're out and about and don't have WiFi you'll be relying on your modem to send/receive pictures and all kinds of data.

Probably not an issue if you're all the time in cities with great coverage but you'll feel it when you go in "the woods" or well shielded buildings or basements.

[eurekin]

Yeah, in that case you're right.

Love Austria btw., and appreciate the preciseness of your language. It's been years since I worked with it, but it always felt like a vacation for my brain, while consuming technical content in it

[FirmwareBurner]

>Love Austria btw., and appreciate the preciseness of your language.

I'm not Austrian, I'm an immigrant here, and it's not "my language" nor anyone else's I presume, it's still just German, albeit with an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent on top.