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Comment by Gary Blackwell on A Second Line for Your Smartphone (September 13, 2025 09:08 PM)
You can also use *72 plus the number you are forwarding it to feature to forward calls to your phone...
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Simple answer: if your computer is not doing what you want it to do within a reasonable time, then consider upgrading or replacing it. The same thing...
Comment by howard on A Second Line for Your Smartphone (September 12, 2025 09:43 PM)
I a note 9 ultra and now a note 20 ultra both have room for 1 sim plus another place to add memory or a 2nd sim, and just switch between sims, each wi...
Comment by Laurie on A Second Line for Your Smartphone (September 12, 2025 09:24 PM)
I have a Google voice phone number and also a Pinger phone number. Pinger offers both free and paid options. I use the free option and it’s great ...
Comment by hifi5000 on A Second Line for Your Smartphone (September 12, 2025 09:05 PM)
I remember the first generation (1G) cellular phones had the option of adding a second number to the device. There was no SIM card involved. You had t...
Comment by Guy on Time to Switch from Windows to Linux? (September 11, 2025 06:07 PM)
Wow, I had no idea that so many people were fed up with windows and Microsoft. I've tried several Linux distro's, among them are Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Q4os...
Comment by Kyle Remy on Time to Switch from Windows to Linux? (September 11, 2025 01:35 PM)
I tried Red Hat Linux (v.5) back in 1998, and have been using different distributions exclusively since. Debian linux is my go-to "flavour" for the la...
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It's been a while since I did this exercise. It was a breeze to set up. BUT. Then came the driver issues, there was no way to find the drivers to enab...
Comment by Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. on Time to Switch from Windows to Linux? (September 11, 2025 08:33 AM)
I've been using various GNU/Linux distributions off and on since the late 1990s. I started with Mandrake Linux, then after Mandrake (Mandriva at the t...
Comment by RandiO on Time to Switch from Windows to Linux? (September 11, 2025 04:55 AM)
I have never disagreed with your great posts over many decades but this is like recommending to "throw the baby out w/the bathwater". Your 10 bulle...
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