Dragged a dead payphone out of the grave and shocked it back to life. Restored the light in the stand, now it’s proudly glowing like it did in the ’80s. Inside, it’s a Frankenstein mix of analog guts and digital soul making this phone hum again.

For the DIYers: the system flow goes

Analog POTS module → Grandstream HT801 → Raspberry Pi running the 3CX SBC → 3CX PBX / VoIP grid in the cloud.

3CX is the MVP here. Next up, I’d like to set up a self-hosted PBX, probably on Asterisk. Still need to dig into what the best options are.

#retrocomputing #diy #freedomtech #hacker #maker #techpunk #voip #payphone #art

My son likes to occasionally buy flowers for his mom. He picked out funeral flowers but neither of us knew the meaning of these flowers before buying. Kind of funny. Here you go mom 💐 🤣 it’s cute though.

I fucking love being a dad. Like every second. 4 months in it’s amazing.

Even the poops, crying, lack of sleep. Whatever, I love it. And my wife absolutely loves being a mom too, it’s beautiful.

It’s so funny talking to some people we know who don’t quite loving being parents as much as we do, or talk about things they miss in life now that they’re parents, want space from their kids, etc

We’re like ummm ok, can’t relate lol

The democrats are completely toast if this is the picture in 2028.

New folks have to emerge or it’s over

A state I don’t live in is trying to come after me for back taxes I don’t owe.

What’s better, emailing my old tax returns as plain unencrypted PDFs (per their request, when I pushed back I was told their security team “advises this”), or bringing the papers in myself?

For both options I have little confidence they will dispose of the documents properly. Surely there’s a better way?

Hey, Friends & Family users! What's missing from this feature? How would you like to have it improved?

when your brand is so strong that your are feature in an article from a country you have no business presence in, about another country where you also have no business presence in

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How advanced, or what types of advancement, would it take to convince you to get a cybernetic brain implant in the future?

-Substantially improves a major disability (blindness, paralysis, brain damage, etc)

-Boosts sensory abilities beyond normal (eyesight, hearing, etc).

-Boosts IQ or some other meaningful metric of intelligence and computation, thereby increasing your competitiveness in multiple fields. Becomes basically necessary for some fields due to many others doing it.

-Lets you enter VR with all five senses in a way that feels like 80-90% realistic but can be any environment/context. People make increasingly awe-inspiring virtual experiences/worlds, only accessible this way.

-Substantially increases the bandwidth with which you can interface with computers. Like, lets you download a ton of info quickly.

always be ready for anything

Great to see that! Do you know that you can get them a Lightning Address by making new account on getalby.com giving that NWC connection as a node? And reuse same connection to Alby Go as well!

Should we be worried that 2025 begins with WTF?

thanksgiving timeline has started.

dealing with banks is so infuriating oh my god

GM Everyone! ☕

Congratulations $100k

I'm making some Bitcoin trivia questions for some 8th grade kids in my homeschool pod on Friday.

I'd love some age appropriate ideas to see if we can pique their curiosity about #Bitcoin ❤️

⚡Zaps for any and all quality replies .

⚡Double zaps for reposts.

#zapathon

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