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A Certain Kind of Love, or Why My Apartment Qualifies as a Phone Network Now
- xellisx 9y agoTLDR; Ended up with old PBX's and set them up in her apartment. Longer: Learning how to interact with these PBX's (and lots of purchases from Weird Stuff), it's helping her deal with depression. *Edited for correct gender.
- jaboutboul 9y agoI thought talking to someone or just some encouragement might help. I called the number but it just took me to a busy signal!
- gewt 9y agoHi hi, author of the story here. I just upgraded the router I was using for this last night and forgot to re-add that dialpeer. dial-peer voice 6129913 pots destination-pattern 14156129913 supplementary-service pass-through direct-inward-dial port 0/0/0:23 forward-digits 7 That number goes straight to my conferencing system as a quick demo I thought might amuse some. I'm doing well enough, but I felt I should write a story detailing coping with depression through tech. ;p
- IntelMiner 9y agoOh hey, I recognize who wrote that article! Super interesting to see she found something others would consider niche to cope with depression. I spent the last few years at the same time bouncing around various ISP's in different roles. Some friends and I have joked that I'm the "Roy Batty of Telecom". Having touched just about every method that people these days use to access TV, Internet and Phone There's a certain wonderment that these inexplicable mishmashes of tech that cover the entire world "just work" with one another. Providing services that most people take for granted