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Comment by beebeepka | Hacker News Reader

This reads like sarcasm to me.

I barely use my phone, yet calls is 99% of what I do. I get less than 5 unsolicited calls per year. Don't use any of the things your imaginary "normal people" use. What a weird thought process. I guess the world does revolve around you

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What do you mean calls is 99% of what you do? For work? Doesn't that just prove my point? You're not using the phone system for personal calls. You must work somewhere doing outbound calls for some reason or receiving them for another. And yes, I would include sales in this classification.

I'm with you. My Phone app is probably the least-used app on my phone, because pretty much all inbound calls are unwanted. I occasionally need to make an outbound call so my Phone app usage is not quite zero.

I have a lot of somewhat tech illiterate family which I communicate with regulaly who pretty much only care to SMS and regular phone calls. Before Signal dropped SMS support I had managed to get a number of them on Signal, but dropping SMS really confused most of them so they dropped it.

I also participate in a lot of local groups where the least common denominator is usually phone/SMS for quick comms.

I refuse to use Meta products outside a privacy container on my computer so no Facebook Messenger/WhatsApp on my phone.

Holy mother of presumptions!

How the hell am I proving your point when I say I use my personal (don't have any other) phone for nothing but calls and the occasional SMS?

Relax. There'd be no need for presumptions if you wrote more clearly than "phone calls is 99% of what I do," unless you're suggesting it's a reasonable presumption that you spend 99% of your personal time on the phone, or that "what I do" doesn't colloquially mean "for work."

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