It’s good enough for what I need as is. I was thinking about doing something like this with an esp32, IIRC there’s a voip firmware for the esp. I was thinking of hiding it in the rotary phone along with a battery, connecting it to the mobile network via a hotspot or just setting the esp32 up like a BT headset. Then put the rotary in a backpack and using it to receive a call on the commuter train or so.

It’s an old FritzBox where I turned off wifi etc and just use for VOIP - Pots. When I set it up a some time ago it was EUR 15 or so on ebay, as these old FritzBoxes have no other modern use. They put out “just” enough juice to ring the phone. Ringing is softer than what I know from. my childhood, though.

Pulse dialing works, but you can’t pause while dialing as it interprets a pause as “now connect the call”. (Real POTS had “incremental” dialing)

I have these phones for fun, but if I’d need to use them I’d probably buy a new dedicated voip adapter (EUR 150+).

Old FritzBox routers are cheap here, that’s why I use them.

The most common routers here in Germany have POTS connectors and convert that to VOIP internally. At least for POTS with DTMF. I keep one specific router around that even still supports pulse dialing as I have two rotary phones from the 1950s and 1970s still hooked up for fun. (They work, except for the fact that nobody knows the number of my land line)

When the biggest provider in Germany switched from POTS and ISDN to VOIP there was also a number of solutions available for bigger installations, so you could keep your POTS installation while the adapter does the VOIP conversion.

So all in all switching worked mostly fine.

When AGI has been achieved, it will troll you with poop jokes.

Base 12 ftw.

No, they should find the most sorry thing of a mud puddle (preferably one in Patagonia or so) and call THAT Lake America.

A AAA Brütal Legend remake with Gameplay Fixes for these weird RTS scenes.

Alternatively No One Lives Forever 3.

I always wanted to build an alternate to maven central, called pomhub.

Many years ago my then girlfriend, later ex wife and me had a stroll through a small forest when we got horny. Thea experience of having outdoor sex just dropped and I was not in the mood anymore after a fucking horsefly had stung me right into the ballsack.

Oh god no. It’s not about feeding in 16A, it’s about consuming 16A thereby overloading the wiring. If everything else is OK, trying to consume 16A should trip the fuse, still - if that doesn’t work, you’ll get a certain (normally very small) fire risk.

Yep this one still is very weird.

If it goes into a 10A plug it should have the small holes, the Schuko plugs with the fat holes are rated up for more, 16A I think.

I think before babying my ice cube tray for a day I’d just buy 4 for $5 when I want clear ice.

Some stuff I like to buy used. This one is quite a few years old, and I was watching the offers for a good occasion. And it’s q common brand with decent spare part availability.

My small pizza oven goes to 400C. Everything else is not enough for good pizza. Cooking time for a pizza is 2 to 3 minutes. With that I’ll get a nice leopard pattern on the dough.

My household oven goes up to 300C but just because it supports pyrolysis. (Best thing, I bought it used from Kleinanzeigen for Eur 50 after about a year of searching for a pyrolysis oven that was sold for cheap). Running Pyrolysis about 4 times a year, so the cost is reasonable but the oven still is CLEAN.

I have a cheap small electric 400C pizza oven, but that’s not something you’d use for frozen pizza. And I still wished it could get a bit hotter…

The pizza I make is still decent, however - already got the approval from a few Italian friends. It’s Neapolitan style pizza, not Roman.

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

Philip K. Dick, Ubik

My ey wife and me divorced 13 years ago. As we have kids and will coparent and see each other for the rest of our lives there’s also no reason not to share streaming accounts. (And we share them with the kids anyways…)

It feels like “chatgpt i need a ragebait reddit article”

OH MY FUCKING GOD. You could use that with classical conditioning or even light hypnosis (if they agree). Make them get really subby on yakety sax. (that’s the title of the benny hill music)