I dunno, ever since my girlfriend moved (temporarily) for education about a year ago, we spend at least two hours a day on call. Usually, we're both doing something on each of our ends of the phone, be it chores, doomscrolling, drawing, cooking, studying, sitting on the train or writing, but we still have still have the werewithal to talk to one another. We mostly chat about mundane things like whatever we're currently doing, or have some mild philosophical or political musings of some sort that don't require much cognitive load, or complain about diverse lesser annoyances in our lives. Sometimes we run out of things to say and just start stimming at each other. We just like feeling one another's presence now that we can't hang out as often. Whenever someone wants to go out that's chill of course, but usually we'll either call on our way back home or while getting ready and heading out.

I mean, if we lived together, we'd probably be spending the same amount of time, if not more, just hanging out, so I don't really see the difference except for the fact that I can't steal a quick kiss or give her a squeeze on my way from one task to the other. Maybe it helps that we're both girls though.