I've been doing this for about a year now and have run into no issues with the numbers I transfer from carriers. more and more the pure VOIP numbers are not working.

I won't go into recommending any, for reasons I describe in another comment in this thread. I will however not recommend VoIP.ms, they wanted me to do a facial scan and when I refused completely blocked access to my account with no appeal.

for me the primary motivator is to stay off of cell to avoid cell tower triangulation. the service I use right now actually doesn't even need a 'host' cell number. also, newer phones have multiple eSIM slots that you can rotate easily with the method I describe above, allowing you to further containerize your personas.

its different depending on what you're trying to accomplish. if you're trying to hide from the government, good luck. if you're trying to make it so Walmart and Amazon have no shared information on you, that's very achievable

I don't recommend any, to be honest. the ones I've tried all have quirks that make them annoying to use, so unfortunately I haven't settled on one I can recommend. that said, $5 USD per number per month is very much the high end you should expect, you can get decent results for much cheaper.

so far I've been able to get around that with the method Michael Bazzell describes in his book:

1. buy a prepaid card, this comes with a carrier phone number (cash, in store if possible)

2. transfer the prepaid number to a VOIP service

3. the number, having been created for carrier service, does not fall into the VOIP generated set, meaning (so far, anyway) MFA and other services requiring a 'real' number do not turn this away, even if it is currently a VOIP number.

repeat/rotate as necessary

"Officer Findley acknowledged that officers had no reason whatsoever to believe Mr. Tunick possessed child pornography"

I'm pretty sure if I made up a lie at work I'd get fired. seems to be a requirement for law enforcement

netbird (and pangolin I believe) offer alternatives to getting a static IP address with their wireguard implementation.

so do many others, but I believe those two are the only fully open source solutions

404media runs off of ghost, when I took a look it seemed pretty cool: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

hey friend, the link you posted works (and I've wish listed) but for some reason typing in the name of the game did not return any results for me until after I clicked your link and wishlisted there. it could be a problem on my end somehow but it might also be worth looking into.

good luck with the release!

I want to expand on your first thought and just say that in my experience the internet as a whole is not a great place for nuanced takes, and I've noticed that becoming mirrored in reality over the last decade. Perhaps its been happening for longer.

There's so much going on, and so many actors trying to influence the masses. I don't blame anyone for having different conclusions to my own, there's an almost untrackable amount of sources to draw information (and disinformation) from. I just hope we can get to a point together where we can (again?) discuss nuance without ceding to emotion.

banger as always, Lay

its competent people raising issues and being overruled, ignored, laughed at by people who want to move fast and break things. same as always.

you know what's funny, is that my noise cancelling headphones started to have serious problems when I 'upgraded' to windows 11. it would pick up the noise cancelling mics and decide they were the primary, not my standalone dedicated microphone.

in the process, it would also downgrade the sound quality for some fucking reason. no matter how many ways I disabled them, it would either re-enable them or I'd find a new way to try.

with Linux? just works.