after my closer look at the JMP.chat project (indie internet telephony, calling & texting for people like me and probably you) yesterday, I've joined their XMPP channel (which seems quite active) and will be keeping a closer eye on the project while I think about whether I want to move some or all of my telephony off VOIP.ms.

I'd love to do a deep dive on daily-driving JMP.chat to share with you all, and might put up a bounty/begpost to see if somebody will sponsor a year's worth of the monthly rate so I can actually pay for it, but before I do that I gotta figure out exactly how a switchover would work, because I have multiple phone numbers with VOIP.ms and various services configured there which probably wouldn't translate 1:1 to #JMPchat.

I'm taking another look at jmp.chat today for various reasons (mainly that voip.ms is, while much better than nothing, also kind of frustrating) and ended up here, this is an interesting manifesto:

https://wiki.soprani.ca/ThePlan

#jmpchat #telephony #phones

Found once again and its so much more versital now. #jmpchat looks like my new #mysudo replacement! Excited to give it a go try it out.
Need a new phone number? Or two or more

https://jmp.chat/faq#existing

Hey #fedifriends for my personal business rather than buy another phone and another sim I decided to try out #jmpchat and I was really impressed.

I got a phone number, it works through their app: #cheogram, I messed up at the beginning but you can reach them through the same app I fixed everything in minutes.

It receive and make calls out of the box through #xmpp their service is based on #opensource software.

I must thanks Noa of #aksnoa show cause I heard about it on his podcast, and he was right.

You get a second number for $5 monthly, it uses your carrier data and nowadays all the majorities of the plan offer unlimited data, it is more convenient than a real second line.

Even though my new number is not ringing yet, I'd like the idea that you can turn off the service at your please.

The only limitation, but I consider a feature, is you cannot use that number with other famous messagging apps because they require a real sim number, hower cheogram is well integrated into #android and if I am able to convince my prospect customers to get an xmpp account we could do more like videoconferencing etc...

Really recommended! 👍

eSIM provisioning support without Play Services or the Google LPAd thanks to @PeterCxy's OpenEUICC.

May appear in next #DivestOS update depending on testing.

And a thanks to #jmpchat for one of their beta eSIMs!

https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/divestos-build/-/commit/c070e856b2b1a5d1b6bddac5e20fd56e28dca85d

Been waiting to see how things turn out for the #clockworkpi #uConsole . If possible I intend acquire one to attempt using it as a #mobile #phone alternative. Of course using #jmpchat and hopefully #fedora 😆

https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole

With a few small bumps, managed to get the #Librem5 booting into a #Mobian installer, and installed with an encrypted rootfs!

So far, only have #Dino configured, but that is enough for this to be a hugely useful communications device, especially with #JMPchat to connect up to telephony networks!

Love the kill switches for cellular modem, wifi/bluetooth and camera/mic!

This is my first #Debian #Trixie based computer, as there may be issues with the now-stable #Bookworm on this hardware.