On Wednesday 06 April 2022 11:01:30 Michael wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2022 12:53:28 pm deloptes wrote: > > Michael wrote: > > For this buy a phone that coveres the requirements for the games and use > > it with the wireless router - you do not even need a sim card (except for > > the initial registration to the play store AFAIK) > > Hi BR, > > I’ll probably do what you basically suggested, get a LineageOS phone just > for games, never put a sim card in it, and then run it through wifi. I did > read up on Sailfish OS to see if I could do somewhat the same with it, but > it’s region locked to just [Europe?] so I can’t use it here. > > For those that are interested here’s my summary of what I found and (links > to) my attempts to get several to work: > https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=677813 > > Best All, > Michael Hi Michael, I read your summary on MX Linux forum, and have followed it here. I am interested because, well, I do have a smartphone, and I usually hate it, and have turned off everything, block access to internet, use it basically just for calls and text, and for non-internet features like the calculator, etc. I do use it sometimes to listen to internet radio stations over wifi, using Orbot and Tor. In short, I have gone right to the brink of rooting my phone, but hold back because I don't want to end up with a brick. And recently my phone service was discontinued because some details had changed in my account, and they somehow thought that I was dead, or whatever; and now I am waiting to be reconnected. Not sure how that happened, but it's a good example of what I hate about the new technology and the evil uses to which it is put. So my question is, Are you using your phone "through" your computer without a sim card? I hear something about games, but I have no interest in them. I do have some interest is having phone service through my computer, so that I would always be able to make calls over wifi, For example, when my phone company believes that I am dead, and discontinues my service without warning. Right now it would be really nice to be able to have an alternative. (We do have an old telephone in this building that accepts change, but it's more complicated for anything but local calls; and anyway, anybody can listen in.) Some years ago I tried some of those phone-over-wifi gadgets (such as Magic Jack), which worked not so well as I hoped -- although I did have a friend who used it for a while, before he gave up, too. If I could connect my phone to my computer, and use it over my computer's wifi connection, that would be very cool. Just sayin' ... Just picking your brains for ideas here, folks. Also, if there is any TDE gui interface sort of program that would allow me to manage that connection, then I could say that this post is not off-topic, so that Slavek won't put me on probation. ;-) Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
