I’m coming the the crossroads many other have found themselves with the Librem 5: do I keep putting in my limited time into this, or do I see a therapist about this textbook example of sunk cost fallacy? I made the mistake of moving over my primary phone number to SIMple plan (AT&T) on the Librem 5…

I’ve been using jmp.chat for a while now as a second line and I’ve been pretty happy with it. As you asked, I’m on the internet while they receive SMS and MMS. There’s a way to port your number to jmp but I haven’t done it (not for any particular reason, I just never did).

Is it possible there is a conspiracy by the major carriers to screw with the customers if they don’t have one of the major brands of hardware? [pseudo code on] IF OFF BRAND DETECT THEN RND(connect) * .5 ELSE connect ENDIF [pseudo code off]

I think it’s more likely that a phone that overheats and has lots of bugs related to phone calls is at fault, not the carriers.

I used jmp.chat for a bit when I couldn’t get cellular service working, but SMS and MMS were a pain in the hindquarters. It’s not an alternative to a “real” cell number for someone who needs SMS and MMS to just work.

[image] johnk: SMS and MMS were a pain in the hindquarters I have not had this experience. Well, that’s not true. If you use XMPP for SMS and MMS, it works great. SIP… not so much. Goes for calls too, for that matter, if you’re on android.

The SMS and MMS messages went through just fine, but on a Librem 5 I had to have contact entries with the recipient’s phone number and an email address extension in order to be able to text the person. I was not able to just text the phone number like I could with a “real” cell number. And group MMS…

True, I imagine dealing with contacts is a pain on Chatty (if on android, get the Cheogram XMPP app and the pain goes away). I didn’t realize we were speaking strictly of the L5.

That’s odd. I text contacts normally with just phone numbers. My MMS messages are wonky though. Sometimes pictures show up normally, but most of the time, they show up as links in the chat which you have to click on to view the image.

SMS and MMS (when I had data enabled) with a “real” cellular phone number usually worked fine for me on the Librem 5. I was specifically talking with @Gavaudan about using jmp.chat and Chatty.

[image] johnk: but SMS and MMS were a pain in the hindquarters I just got a jmp.chat number and am struggling with it quite a bit with Chatty. Other services like Gajim or Dino are not formatted for the phone, so that doesn’t help. [image] johnk: I was not able to just text the phone num…

A more reliable form of communication

Hardware Librem 5

amarok July 13, 2022, 3:18pm 19

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