IT folks are exactly the people who will be early adoptors of technology. If lemmy can start growing to something approaching an early majority, then we'll see a big shift in the demographic of the user base. Unfortunately, that's a huge gap in expansion.
Rowan
Appreciate it. Honestly, I just need to stay away from news for a while because it genuinely does fuck up my mental state looking at the truth of the world as it stands.
Despite how much I despise Biden, I know I'm going to vote for him because Trump is infinitely worse. That fact itself is depressing as hell, but the unfortunate reality is that actively voting for a genocidal, corporate-owned dinosaur is the only part I can play to try and salvage something for my daughter's future.
There's an app called tasker that let's you set up some pretty deep automation on your phone. I've used this a set up a grey list on my phone.
If a call comes in from a saved contact, all is normal. If it's an unsaved number though, it doesn't ring and goes to voicemail as if I just didn't answer at all. If, however, they call back within two minutes, it will ring as per normal and I then know it's, likely, someone who actually needs me.
I set this up because my phone number gets passed around at work quite a bit. If someone really needs me, I always figure they'll call more than once or text after a missed call.
Fair enough, glad you're here!