Hacker News: andersonreedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andersonreedHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:55:34 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by andersonreed in "Retro-Tech Parenting"]]>I too built a landline phone inspired by tincan. It runs off of an old macbook I repurposed as an ubuntu server, and routes through voip.ms. I used a pap2t linksys adapter so we could use a cool old analog phone. it mostly works, but for my youngish kid, its amazing and she loves it.

one nice thing about it is that i can set up call hours and a whitelist of allowed phone numbers, so she doesn't yet have to deal with strangers calling.

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