Last week, I wrote about how our phone numbers have evolved into a unique, static ID that companies abuse to track us. As anecdotal evide...

Last week, I wrote about how our phone numbers have evolved into a unique, static ID that companies abuse to track us. As anecdotal evidence, I mentioned that “I personally had my last phone number for well over a decade before I finally got rid of cell service altogether in favor of the ‘living on Wi-Fi 24/7’ model.” This prompted an email from a reader asking me to elaborate. Why not?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I tried that, actually. It didn’t work out for me.

    Set up my own VoIP server, got a phone number registered with it, set up all the infrastructure, got the firewall to play nice, etc. It worked great for phone calls (and the voicemail and call queues were awesome), but I couldn’t get SMS/MMS integrated into the VoIP server let alone any of the softphone clients. Most of my friends/family use SMS/MMS rather than [insert app here] so I was never able to drop the SIM card, so to speak.

    May try again at some point, but as of 2020, I just couldn’t make it work.

    • Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Hey out of curiosity what software did you use for setting that up? What did the final stack look like?