Eva Winterschön<p>🙄 Modern Communications 🙄</p><p>How shall we contact you? Apparently, not easily.</p><p>1. Cell phone, no. Inconsistent for years now.<br>- Pixel 9 Fold: hardware failure, provider failure. Couldn't port number from Verizon to GFi. <br>- iPhone 15, hardware failure. Couldn't port from T-Mobile to Verizon.<br>- TCL 60 5G (color eInk), great phone, but I have no idea what the number is among all of the former ones and it's possibly not even turned on anymore.</p><p>2. SIP / VOIP phone: sure, the desk phone rings, and SMS can be received but can't go out (why? I have no idea, and I'm tired of troubleshooting). </p><p>3. Email: sure, if thunderbird didn't keep crashing, corrupting cache, and deleting months of messages during folder sync operations. Backups, sure, but the workflow is so broken now that I don't bother. Filters are ruined, recreating filters - no,no,never,again,please,no, the spam is overwhelming. I don't want to miss using Gmail, come on now, wtf. </p><p>4. Matrix? iMessage? XMPP, IRC? Whatsomething? Someothernetwork?<br>Too many networks, too much segmentation, no universal anything, forget useful or consistent notifications across several devices.</p><p>5. Write me a letter... actually don't, because USPS routinely loses important packages or the mail is stolen by literal gangs and the Feds don't prosecute anymore. Also, I don't own any paper or any pens, and forget about stamps.</p><p>6. Telegram? Signal? No. <br>Guess what's linked to a cell phone number? And even when you pay for the Very Special Money account on Telegram they will not respond to messages about having lost one's cell phone number (see #1). If you've tried to message me on Telegram since June, those messages are gone - I cannot access them ever again apparently. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/modernlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modernlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/internetsucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internetsucks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/telegram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telegram</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/imessage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imessage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/chat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>matrix</span></a></p>