• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    4 days ago

    You know the joke, if people had wings we wouldn’t fly because we’d consider it exercise? That, but with escaping the Matrix and landlines. You can still go pay your phone company to activate one… just nobody does.

    • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      4 days ago

      Traditional POTS service in the US is pointlessly expensive. The infrastructure is owned by legacy companies like Lumen, which have long since given up doing anything but sitting on their dead ass and collecting rent. Lumen was probably the most infuriating company I ever had to deal with B2B.