| ▲ | scrappyjoe 6 hours ago | |
I set up a little neighbourhood pbx this year on an oracle cloud always free instance. Took a couple of days. Any family can buy a WiFi-enabled office phone and I’ll set up an extension for them. It’s working great! My six year old had a 15 minute chat with classmate while we were making dinner today; they have arranged a play date for next Monday. A couple of weeks ago a 5 year old invented prank calls. Every now and then the phone will ring and we’ll pick up and she’ll sing a a couple of lines out of Frozen before hanging up. It’s made our community much closer. | ||
| ▲ | stronglikedan 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Sadly, all the busybodies in my community would make this unbearable, since they'd have direct lines to people instead of having to wait to see them outside to complain to them. | ||
| ▲ | patrickdavey 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Can you point to an article on how to do this? This sounds _amazing_ | ||
| ▲ | picofarad 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
CenturyLink started on somebody's porch. The original party line was tied together with barbed wire fencing between farms. I also run a PBX. and a PBX behind a VPN firewall. | ||
| ▲ | bitwize 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Well it beats asking for Amanda Hugankiss. That's really cool. Recently I had the fantasy of setting up a PBX here in the house and bringing back "dial up internet" for me and my wife, as a doomscrolling mitigation measure. Probably won't work though, as we each have smartphones plus she wants her streamers to play back full-fat 4K. | ||