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   GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 06:30:59 JST GabeMoralesVR

   So I live out in the middle of country-side #Texas in a #TinyHouse I built on a big plot of land my family owns. My parents have a house on the same plot of land, but being Texas, it's actually a short drive to their house. They are old and like to check in but misplace their #cellphones a lot, and hate making the actual trip over. So I decided to build them a custom #telephone #network using a #PBX between our houses, running the wiring underground. Which means using old #landline #phones.

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 06:30:59 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     I am having a fucking ball looking at cheap old #landline #phones to string up between our houses. Why the hell did we give up this shit for stupid boxy #iphones??

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 06:30:59 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     It has also occurred to me that I can string up a #VOIP #Gateway to the #PBX and run it to my router, and then use Google Voice to give myself essentially a free #landline #telephone number this way. And then I can even go further and built my own #dialup #ISP from this. And then I can connect my fucking #Sega #Dreamcast to the #internet over actual #dialup 56k.

     And yes, I'm doing this.