this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 85 points 11 months ago
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 57 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As a side note: you were/are able to send SMS to a landline and the provider of it would convert it to speech and read the content to you.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 18 points 11 months ago

The old landlines had a ton of smart features. It's just that very few of us knew about them and thus they went unused.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

So I guess it's because she never texts back

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hah what an idiot! Not plugged in lmfao

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I didn't know I was an idiot

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fraid so, the ankle bracelet doesn’t help either

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

It's certainly heavy

[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Let's start with the fact that is a rotary phone.