Being able to disconnect when I leave my home office is how I stay happy and productive, and rejecting "app culture" by ditching my smartphone last year has bee

Being able to disconnect when I leave my home office is how I stay happy and productive, and rejecting "app culture" by ditching my smartphone last year has been a big part of that. Still sometimes I need to make an outgoing call to some customer support line or other such nonsense that only works over "the phone". Back in the day before cellphones were an option I would sometimes use a payphone for these edge cases, but they basically no longer exist. I had already canceled my cell phone subscriptions a couple years ago and ported my one remaining cell number to a VoIP provider. This lets me get SMS over email for dumb services I can't avoid like banks that insist on using SMS verification still. Given that setup had worked well, I decided for rare life edge cases that still require classic phone system voice calls I could also get a VoiP ATA box and route calls to it. This let me setup some "dumb" landline phones at home, the first which logically had to be a payphone, which is now installed and working in my home office as of a few months ago, and I love it. It is visible in most of my work video calls and people are often skeptical that it really works. Some call it to test are amazed it works fine. It amuses me.