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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 16:01:11 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

   • cool_boy_mew
   @coolboymew Thinking a bit about it, kind of awkward that you don't get like a BBS-style interface on slightly modern phones.
   It's like 3 lines to display and it could render voice servers so much more accessible, like you could nearly use them while being deaf.
   
   I guess smartphones came in and now we must suffer webshit on imprecise slabs.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 16:36:36 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • chris
     @chris @coolboymew Both Gopher and Gemini would suck ass compared to a Télétex/BBS system and request/response over SMS would be terribly bad given their massive and unreliable latency.
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     chris (chris@s.the-brannons.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 16:36:37 JST chris

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     • cool_boy_mew
     @lanodan @coolboymew Years ago, a friend
     of mine had an insanely great idea, replacing voice menus with Gopher. So if you
     called some company on the phone, you could deal with their Gopher menu
     instead of the voice one. There's your BBS style interface. We have a
     technology for making and displaying them easily. Maybe replace Gopher
     with Gemini. Or maybe not; Gopher was made for this kind of thing.
     Perhaps Gopher requests and responses exchanged over SMS?
     
     Voice and touch-tone menus could stay around for people who want them.
     Implementing them would be much simpler, too, because they could just be
     thin Gopher clients with a voice and touch-tone interface.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 16:45:59 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Lord
     @lord @coolboymew Oh, do you remember when that appeared? I haven't used android since uuh *checks CyanogenMod discontinuation* 2016.
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     Lord (lord@pleroma.lord.re)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 16:46:01 JST Lord

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     • cool_boy_mew
     @lanodan @coolboymew on modern android your "phone" app is splitted in 4 tabs : "keypad", "recents", "contacts" and 🥁"voicemail" where you have a menu with your incoming messages and buttons to play/pause/delete them.
     You don't have to call your voicemail server anymore.
     
     Some operators even send you an sms transcript of your incoming messages (quite effective and sometimes even funny). i don't even listen to my voicemail anymore, this sms is enough 90% of the times.