Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone

Re:Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone by boring_twenties on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:28PM (#26559995)

You could get a Google Voice number and use the web app to text people. It rather sucks, or maybe it just sucks in Firefox, I don't know. But it's usable enough, you just have to hard-refresh the page every now and then. At least they finally started allowing downloading of "unsupported" attachments, which was the biggest problem before.

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Re:Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone by mantlepro on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:43PM (#26560165)

I opened an account with voip.ms after ditching my smartphone last year and was pleasantly surprised with the reliability and interoperability. Works decently well with Linphone, ATA devices, forwarding to a dumb phone, land line, etc. With it you can also receive SMS messages (and reply to them) by email.

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Re:Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone by boring_twenties on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:48AM (#26564006)

Thanks, I'll check it out! Google Voice, while better than nothing, has quite a few limitations I'm not enamored with.

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