[morshu9001]

I never had a Skype call work properly on the first try, even before Microsoft broke it

[shaky-carrousel]

I too remember Skype's universal salute: "do you hear me?"

[direwolf20]

That's known as the millennial pause. Older generations like millennials want to ensure a communication is working before committing information, while GenZ and Alpha just start talking.

It's named after the pause after pressing the record button while you check it changes shape, but "can you hear me?" is the same thing.

[elboru]

I hear people saying that every day in Slack and Teams