> I have received many phone calls from average joes who said they were returning a call from my number, but I had never called them. I've run into that, and d

> I have received many phone calls from average joes who said they were returning a call from my number, but I had never called them. I've run into that, and don't get me started about phone companies being unwilling to insure Caller ID is accurate, even when they charge you for it. I'm looking at you, AT&T. The VoIP service I ported my landline out to costs less per month than what AT&T wanted just for Caller ID. > Everything in life has turned to spam. My physical mailbox, my email, and my phone is bombarded by spam and there’s practically nothing I can do about it. Also add your cell phone (if you run Android) and your desktop OS (if you run Windows 10). I host my own email, and block a number of TLDs on sight simply because they've been nothing but spam cannons. More and more, I find myself forgoing consumer tech products in general, or looking before I leap. Consumer routers suck, consumer NASes suck [0], I sure as hell don't want my heating system connected to the network in any way, nor my car. Smart lighting? Only if it doesn't depend on someone else's computer to function (so, IKEA for me, and even there I'm considering firewalling it so it doesn't auto-update). [0] Cross-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800062