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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 02:30:24 JST 翠星石

   • Jason123santa
   • Jan Vlug
   • Phoronix
   • Alexandre Oliva
   @lxo @jason123santa @janvlug @phoronix My primary SMS-reciever is a GNUbooted X200.
   
   Decently designed computers tend to last just fine.
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 02:43:28 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Jason123santa
     • Jan Vlug
     • Phoronix
     I wish there was some way to forward SMS sent to +55 phone numbers to XMPP, email, whatever. a +1 won't do for the sort of stuff that requires me to keep an SMS receiver going. the freerunner would be just an GPS receiver with shopping lists otherwise 😉
     
     but hey, I can read my SMSs on the GNUbooted T400 computer by X forwarding over SSH, running GNU Emacs on the FreeRunner 🙂
     
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     Jason123santa (jason123santa@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 03:09:03 JST Jason123santa

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     • Jan Vlug
     • Phoronix
     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo @Suiseiseki @phoronix @janvlug
     Well there is jmp.chat to do phone numbers over xmpp. Or you can get any voip provider and login to a voip client on your laptop.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 03:09:03 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Jason123santa
     • Jan Vlug
     • Phoronix
     sure, I've even promoted jmp.chat myself, in my talk abut the 0G Project and elsewhere. the challenge is to get the voip provider that would take the +55 (Brazil) number I've been using for almost 30 years (desirable, not strictly needed). as I wrote upthread, unfortunately a foreign number won't do for some of the purposes that require me to receive SMS. do you have any useful recommendations of service providers that could do that? I used to have VoIP service at home some 15-20 years ago (without SMS), but the service was shut down when the provider was bought by the phone company, and I haven't found a replacement. the web is toxic and impenetrable to people like me who won't run alien JavaScript, which makes it hard to find all sorts of services, and they typically don't want me as a customer because their websites won't work for me, and I don't even have hardware to run their T.R.Apps. (and see above about autistic rigidity and PDA 🙂
     
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