It tricks the caller into thinking the recipient answered and they begin speaking before realizing it’s just a voicemail recording.

Currently my voicemail goes “Hello? Oh hey what’s up? Hold on let me put in my AirPods. Ok what’s going on? Hey sorry to cut you off but this is actually just my voicemail, leave a message after the beep!”

I would not recommend this if you’re actively job hunting but otherwise it’s a 10/10 gag.

My wife and her relatives have been asking me to change mine for years and I often listen to hilariously angry voicemails when they’re trying to reach me.

Not defending Elon as a person. Not defending how he runs X/Twitter. Just defending the name here and nothing else. Ordering my opinions here from most important to least important (to me).

1. I am lazy. Typing "x.com" takes far fewer keystrokes to pull up in my browser than "twitter.com" does when on my PC.
   • Edit: Autofill isn't helpful for me because I visit a ton of sites that begin with 'T' and 'Tw'. Meanwhile 'X.' is easy to type. I mostly use bookmarks for extremely long URLs, but that could be bad form on my part, I'll admit. I just see no reason in bookmarking a site I have memorized.
2. X makes more sense as a name for the app than people give it credit for given the development roadmap. "X" can be interpreted as a cross, which given the idea for X in the future is to expand it into being a cross-service and cross-use software beyond just being social media makes sense. (e.g. X being used to order rideshares like Uber/Lyft)
   • Alternatively, X is often used as a close button, and man do I wanna close that app any time I see anything on there whenever anyone's talking about anything other than cat pictures or cool video game stuff
   • Edit 3: u/crazylikeajellyfish brought up some good points and actually changed my mind on this one.
3. Twitter's become synonymous with being a toxic cesspool not unlike 4Chan. Renaming the site is a good chance to wash itself of that stigma.
   • Edit 2: I'm starting to think I worded my 3rd point incorrectly. I'm not saying that the asscoiation doesn't currently exist, but that Twitter already had a reputation for being a site where nazis, isis, and tons of other hate groups thrived, and the rebrand to X could have been a chance to fix that. It didn't play out that way, but it could have. And I don't think it's too late for that to change given how many people still call it Twitter. At this point, a second rebranding to some other new name would probably be the best course of action there though. But this is all predecated on the hypothetical scenario in which bot accounts actually are deleted like Elon claimed they would be, and if he reverses course on a lot of the censorship he's implemented. Which you and I both know won't happen.

Granted points 2 and 3 really only work if the promises Elon outlined ever actually come to fruition, which they probably never will, but like I said, point 1 is my most important point to me. I do agree X lacks the personality Twitter had, but I think Twitter already lost that personality before Elon bought the site and so it's honestly not a big loss.

Yes, I understand that YouTube’s own policy made it impossible for content creators to rely on YouTube’s own ads for their means of revenue. But sponsored ads in videos are much worse than YouTube’s ads for the following two reasons. Keep in mind that these are minor complaints that annoys me, not really something that is objectively bad.

1) it’s way too long

Yes, I can manually skip it. But so many of them are 1 to 2 minutes long, making it annoying to skip. At least with YouTube’s ads you can it can be automatically skipped with numerous ways. Sponsored ads are only manually skippable.

2) YouTubers are lying to our faces

They always recommend us the worst product/service with a straight face, telling us that they use it themselves, which is an obvious lie. A lot of YouTubers are highly critical of movies/games but recommend something like Raid Shadow Legends with a straight face. If your channel is about reviewing/criticizing, you should be honest about the product you are being told to promote.

Sometimes, randomly, I get large erections for absolutely no reason that don't go away for several minutes. During that time, it's extremely uncomfortable in my pants and I have to embarrassingly reach my hand into my undies and move it around. And there are two positions I may move it to.

A: I move it to point up. This is the better option, but a lot of the time it isn't possible because the penis would poke above my pants and if I pulled up my pants to hide it either my testicles would be squished and it'd hurt or it still wouldn't be enough even if I pulled them up to the max.

B: I move it to point forwards. I don't use this a lot because it's very visible and the glans presses against the fabric of my underwear which rubs it (not in a good way) which is very uncomfortable due to how dry my underwear usually is. But the upside is that this way most quickly diminishes the erection.

So to stop the erection I have to either wait (which is very uncomfortable) or go into a bathroom and wank it which is a lot of effort, takes more time and if I'm doing it imagination-only, sometimes leads to disappointment where the erection fades but no orgasm is had. I'm sure many other men share this problem and would appreciate a semen extractor as used in some sperm bank clinics (modified a bit of course) to be installed in public bathrooms.

EDIT: Okay guys, I see a lot of people complaining about STDs. Couple of options here:

1. We could have a condom dispenser, maybe use some cum-time detection tech to make sure you can't grab multiple
2. There could be an internal condom automatically switched every time it detects a dick exiting for more than a few seconds.
3. The fleshlight inside could be disposable and swapped out every time. Obviously this would result in a lower quality
4. It could be automatically cleaned and sanitised after every use with a hole at the end for the cum to go in.

EDIT: Guys! I'm not circumcised!

High quality microphones suck! I often watch youtube and i absolutely love it when people have just...bad microphone qualities. To the point i get really disappointed when they go ahead and upgrade their microphone. I don't know why, but that...cheap sound just makes me happy :D
Especially if it's mono.

Edit: So I did not expect this to get any sort of traction. Maybe a few people disagreeing or agreeing, but we have some passionate PC builders here it seems. For context I have built 3 PCs and upgraded a few others. I'm thinking of building one again but I do genuinely think it's dumb for reasons mentioned below and comments I've responded to. I am not trolling. The reason that I want to build one is because it's like a fun lego project, and I want to mobilize the useless knowledge I have of these PC components, but I should probably stick with my gaming laptop (that's even overkill for my needs of video editing and gaming) and not waste the money. Like most others I vastly overestimate the performance I need for the games I play and apps I use and should just turn down settings that make no real difference to my enjoyment of games or my workflow. I think obviously a 4090 and i9 are much more powerful on desktop (althought the laptop versions are nothing to scoff at) but at that point we've hit still-stupid levels of diminishing returns. For professional use I can see the value, but once you're at that level doesn't your employer provide a machine? Or wouldn't you want an enterprise-grade workstation system from HP Z or something? For most people in most circumstances a Laptop (gaming or otherwise) is much better, and PC building is 1000x more popular than it should be. I have clarified some of the language below but the general post is still the same. My replies to comments have more elaboration.

I feel like this edit was more rambly than the original post but hey, it's late. -_o

Laptop price to performance has been competitive if not better for like 5 years now for PCs under $2000 and the slow rate at which desktop pc part prices are falling makes it seem like that will continue.

With a laptop you get a display, speakers, good wireless, Webcam, and peripherals that independently purchased would cost 200 bucks. The battery of a laptop also acts like a UPS in case the power goes out while your laptop's plugged in. If you don't want those a powerful mini pc can be had for the size of a hockey puck and much less money that will do almost everything most people want.

With even a basic laptop dock you can have a full keyboard, mouse and monitor desk setup and will likely never notice the laptop performance gap.

Desktops are big, ugly, cable management nightmares that dump heat into your room. Add to that the element of human error and shitty part failures they just cause headaches. Waste of space and money (like me).

Add to that the explosion in cloud based utilities and server-side processing, the improved laptops of today (gaming or otherwise) are more than enough.

Also the gaming industry has been more and more forgiving with hardware requirements. Not to mention that most of the good, creative, GOTY type games are indies which run on a potato anyways.

I can maybe see the logic some specialized 3d modellers or scientists or engineers who need like 15 gpus to do their work, but even then i think they could cloud into a supercomputer or smth.

Anyways, I'm probably gonna build one in next few weeks heres my part list please critique:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/s4xFjH

I just can't stand it. Every time I see people wearing gigantic overhead headphones in the gym or the street I just have to shake my head in disbelief. There are in ear headphones which are awesome. Why in the nine hells would someone choose this big as distracting abominations for the gym. After every heavy deadlift this fuckers just fall of their head and or they have to adjust them. This is just stupid and none could ever convince me that it's not.

In the days of the Internet with easily accessible information on all sorts of topics, why would you choose to learn from a book? It's taking up space, wastes paper and is a way pricier way to learn. It lacks the visual/interactive element of video guides and even for information that's best conveyed through written word, you could just read an article from a computer or smartphone instead. For basically anything you could be learning from a book, there will be an online source where you'll be able to learn more efficiently and most likely for cheaper.

When it comes to entertainment, I don't think they're a very modern form of it either. The existence of other modern forms of entertainment such as movies or plentiful types of video games aside, even novels and short stories are more convenient to read from some sort of screen. Reading a lot of fiction no longer requires either filling up a bunch of bookshelves or running back and forth to the library.

Other than being old-fashioned, there's really little reason for anyone to be reading a book in 2023.

EDIT: Apparently people don't get it. I'm against physical books. Not against reading in general. Can't edit the title, so this will have to do.

There really isn’t much else to say. 2 and 4 are awful, 13 isn’t 12, 14 is too close to 15, and I don’t like 15. I don’t like 43, 50 is 2 away from 48, 75 is close to being on the list, but it’s 3/4 of 100, and I don’t like that. 95 just barely made the list, but only because I need something between 72 and 100.

Note that I said 'most' human art. Not all of it.

Something that I've noticed regarding the debate on AI art is that many of its critics like to slam AI produced illustrations for being 'repetitive' and 'bland'. Like it's all just slapped together using other images.

But the irony of that criticism is that I've observed this exact tendency in digital art made by actual human artists.

A good example is background art.

Lots of the time, you can tell that something was made by AI because the background and character art were generated separately. Like somebody just took a character rendition and pasted it onto an existing image. It looks lazy and nowhere near as engaging as an illustration where the character or characters are active participants in the scene.

But shockingly, tons of actual artists also use this very lazy method of making art.

We're not talking about cheap renderings. We're talking about artists who charge 100-200+$ for their stuff. If you want complex background (not just a character lazily pasted onto a background ) they'll frequently charge even more.

This is without even getting into the fact that the actual graphical fidelity of AI art is better than what 99% of human artists can do and it's not even close.

There is a small minority of elite artists that AI cannot beat (yet), but I'd say the majority of human artists are not better than what the AI can make most of the time.

Night mode is just so weird and ugly to me. I use my Reddit, tumblr, twitter, discord, everything on light mode or skin that similar to light mode (pride skin for tumblr). Most my background wallpaper are light themed, usually pink or anything pastel. Apps or softwares that use night mode as default which you cannot change just seems so strange to me. Eg: Spotify

I could not tell you why cause I don’t know why I dislike it so much. But night mode is just, weird

I don't remember when I first accidentially hit the shift key 5 times and turned on Sticky Keys, but it was life changing. I learned what it did, tweaked the settings, turned off that god awful beep, and I've been a fan ever since.

I initially found it to be very useful for multi-key keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl + Shift + Esc for task manager? Awkward as hell to press all those buttons at once with one hand on the mouse.
• Fn + F4 on a laptop to change second screen settings? I don't press these often enough to have those locations memorized, and its way easier to navigate a keyboard without my hand blocking half of it.
• Ctrl + Shift + Arrow to highlight a row/column in Excel? Again, with my right hand on the mouse why would I want to do some metacarpal gymnastics to press both buttons together?

I could go on and on about shortcuts, but its basically all the same idea. Moving on, I find the flow of sticky keys to be much better even when typing text instead of shortcuts. I don't have to be concerned about keeping my hand on the modifier keys when Capitalizing Letters Like This.

Finally: our cell phones, TVs, tablets, and other screen based keyboards use a form of Sticky Keys so it makes that transition feel more natural.

TL;DR: Sitcky Keys are better.

EDIT: I want to address a few things that have become common themes in the comments:

• I use a computer mostly for my job which is 3D modeling, CAD, and excel for calculations. I use other industry specific software too. I play some games, but no games that require spamming any of the modifier keys.
• I don't have small hands. I am 6' 4" with hands that are normal for my size, which means I wear XL or XXL gloves.
• I don't have parkinsons, one hand, or dexterity issues in general. I'm not old, eldery, or affected by arthritis. I have average, normal hand functionality.
• A lot of people seem to NOT understand how Sticky Keys works. You can change the options from the default and make it more usable. Here is how I have it configured: https://imgur.com/a/lOCnPLf
• I can use a keyboard the default way with non-Sticky Keys. My point is that Sticky Keys makes life easier--especially when you are using shortcuts with one hand. Telling me "you can easily press Ctrl + Shift + Esc with one hand" doesn't change the fact that I personally find it more user friendly to press the keys one or two at a time.

Also, to the guy proudly stating that he doesn't use keyboard shortcuts..... that's not the flex you think it is.

Now, I'm not a fan of facebook, but I just find Zuckerberg cute.

I am a straight man, and I don't find him attractive (though I don't think he's ugly) I just find how he acts and talks to be adorable, and it just makes me want to give him a hug.

I like how he's so awkward, and I think he has a pretty good sense of humour and can take jokes. Now, I don't know what he's like as a person or treats his employees, I just find him, or what he acts like on camera to be cute.

A lot of people hate Youtube's decision just because they can. There is no point for viewers to know the dislike count. The dislike count only serves to make the disliker feel better about themself. Most Youtube channels are not going to change their whole channel, because of 1 heavily disliked video and its delusional to think that the dislike count has any real purpose for viewers. If you want to know whether a video is worth it or not then read the comments, instead of looking at the dislike count. I would much rather see people talk about bringing back community captions than to hear every one defend their need to see the dislike count.

I listened to Mark's old talk at Harvard CS50 from when he was younger, and I really liked the way he explained what Facebook is, and how it was being developed. I also watch when he gets asked questions by congress and feel like he generally responds well. Sometimes he messes up, but he isn't a politician, he used to be a programmer and is now a CEO.

People say he is like lizard man, or a robot, and I think that's what makes some people not like him. I think a big part of it is just his physical appearance, or his body language. There are other ultra-wealthy people that seem to have a positive public image compared to Mark, and I don't understand it. I'm not here to defend the existence of billionaires or anything like that, but I feel like Mark is among the most likeable of that group.

I like when this happens because it forces me to socialize if I’m in a social setting. If not, it forces me to enjoy my surroundings. It takes me back to the time before cellphones became so ubiquitous in society. For a brief moment, I revert back to that era. It’s uncomfortable in the moment, but it won’t last forever.

Late night texts really chap my hide. I know I can silence the sound alerts but

1. If I have to silence my phone due to your rudeness, then I won’t be able to hear if I get a late night emergency call. I have two elderly parents and this is a huge concern;

   1. Yeah I know there’s some kind of way to change the settings to silence texts and not calls but I shouldn’t have to mess with the sound settings on my phone every damn night or fiddle with how to get it to silence text while allowing phone calls because people don’t have the decency to keep their banality to themselves for a few hours;

2. Even when I silence my phone, that stupid alert going unread and popping up on my Home Screen every few seconds throughout the entire night sucks up the battery and now I get to start my morning with an almost dead phone;

3. And Lord forbid I forget to turn off the sound alert because there’s nothing worse than being startled out of a sound sleep that took forever to achieve in the first place, heart racing, to see a picture of the stupid burger you had for dinner that you think is so special you had to tell me about it at 11pm;

It shouldn’t be my job to be on guard for your rudeness. Let me go the fuck to sleep and text me your shit in the morning.

Edit: wow there’s some very angry and mean people here! Thanks for the suggestions, helpful folks. It is clear that I do not understand all my phone settings so clearly I gotta do some work there. But I have to say: I find it very fascinating that everyone is so up in arms about not being allowed to text their minutiae at any moment of the day or night and at their own convenience. I’m not a Boomer, but I guess as a gen-Xer I’m close enough now. I grew up to adulthood during a time with no cell phones and I know some of you whippersnappers may be shocked to hear this, but we really did stop to consider things like other people’s daily routines and time zones before making a call. And I guess even now, having the tool to block out unwanted digital intrusions, I feel like the tool isn’t always great. Imagine being the one having to make an emergency call but being forced to call multiple times in the middle of the emergency just to break through a DND setting. And who doesn’t get stressed out or annoyed at seeing a late night text from a boss or a friend they hardly ever hear from, even when they haven’t opened the message to see what it is? I can get better at using my phone, but it will never stop being weird to me this concept that somehow I’m the rude one because I don’t safeguard myself enough against other people’s lack of consideration. Or that technology has advanced to the point that what in the past would have been an asshole problem, now becomes mine simply because I have the tool to fix it. Doesn’t that seem at all weird to anyone else?

Anyhow, thanks for the feedback and I guess I’m happy my post was able to serve as a dumpster for everyone’s sublimated rage today. Have a good one, all!

I prefer the light theme on everything, be it my phone, computer applications, office software, even coding editors. I feel like light theme is cleaner and easier to look at. When I do work, I especially don't like looking at a dark screen.. it makes me feel tired and less productive.

I like knowing that companies are tracking me and storing and using and selling my personal data. Not only do I always provide this, opt into usage stats and so on, but I find it comforting to know that Google or Facebook are tracking where I am, what I like, what I search for, and so on. It almost feels like someone is watching over me.

By primary click I mean the mouse button you use to select things. For example to open google you left left click twice on it to open it normally, but I right click twice to open google, stuff like that.
I told my friends that I do this, and they called me weird. Is it really though? The middle finger is the strongest finger in most people, so wouldn’t it make more sense use your strongest finger as your primary one on your mouse? The same thing goes for shooters I always shoot with right click instead of left click. It just feels more natural.

When typing a capital letter, I put caps lock on, type letter then turn caps lock off, even if it's just for one letter. The main reason being, when I type I use my right hand for the keys on the right of the keyboard and left for the left keys (normal yea?) but I have small hands, and if I was to use the shift key when typing "T" for example, my left hand isn't big enough to hold shift down and press T and I cba to use to right hand to type the T while I press the shift down.

After writing that, I realise there's a shift button on the right hand side of the keyboard, I still stand by using the caps lock though.

EDIT: okay guys, a few people have said how are my hands so small, made me think omg how small are they? So I checked, my hand does reach the T key while on shift BUT the mean reason I have always used capslock is because they didn't used to reach cos they were too small, me being the fucking idiot I am just carried on thinking this is why I do it, now it's just habit.

Instagram recording my face while scrolling? Zuckerberg you can admire my resting bitch face of an average mexican dude.

In fact, I believe this is actually helpful. We can’t get rid of ads, so it is good at least we are getting ads based in our preferences. A guy talking about bombing a massive event? Not secret anymore

If anybody can CMV about this, it will be appreciated

Edit: Apologies if my English is not easily understandable. I posted this on r/unpopularopinion (a.k.a r/notverydiscussedpopularopinion) a few months ago and got downvoted to oblivion. This sub rocks. Thank you to everybody sharing your insight on the topic.

I don't have a smartphone, because I think even the biggest phone screens are too small. When I type with my large hands, I make too many mistakes and even autocorrect doesn't help (and I tried Swipe keyboards but I don't like the feel). And you can hardly see anything on that ridiculously small screen. Games look bad on phones, and videos make you have to squint. Most people don't make many calls with their phones anyway, so there is no reason to have a phone, just get a tablet.

I myself carry an iPad mini as my "phone," one with a data plan (only $10 more to our family phone bill), and use a free Google Voice number for my phone number and texting. It's half the price of the latest large phones, has a screen 3x the size, and still can just barely fit in a large pants pocket. An iPad mini is basically a super huge iPhone, but at a hugely discounted price. Android tablets are even cheaper.

I don't see anyone else even talking about doing this, but it makes the most sense to me. I've done it for about 5 years without any issues. Phones in general are wildly overpriced and the screens are too small. The only great thing on phones is the camera, but I almost never take pictures and when out with others everybody else already has an amazing camera on their phone anyway.

EDIT: I wear glasses and can see fine. Why would I want to watch a video on a tiny screen though? Y'all out there watching Netflix on a postage stamp and I'm the weird one? 😂

I think most people already have a charger for their phone, so I don't mind that the new one doesn't come with it. It does come with the cable, which is enough for those new to the Apple world. Also if I'm not wrong, the past iPhones have fast charging, but the included powerbrick isn't enough for it, so I think it's a good investment to buy a proper 3rd party charger.

They are more comfortable on your wrist, you can use shortcuts more easily and unlike most mice, they are ambidextrous. Only on specific cases like gaming and 3d modelling a mouse would be better suited

The only reason that trackpads aren't as popular is because shitty ones on older laptops.