I used Hushed as a giveaway phone number (food delivery, new account sign up, etc.) and was fine with it until it wasn’t cost effective anymore.

Most of my friends still use Burner app but if you’re interested in keeping the same phone number, look into MySudo.

If you’re in USA, Canada, Australia or UK, check out MySudo.

They have three different plans starting at $19.99 USD (year) for one VOIP phone number; when my subscription expires, I plan on renewing and possibly upgrading.

There’s a Free version but it’s just email and no phone number. They’re cheaper than Hushed and more reliable.

Avoid TextNow, it works fine until you need it or expecting something important (voicemail or text) and that’s when they lock you out until you pay up.

NOTE: I didn’t read the fine print or ToS for MySudo UK so I don’t know what they need from you if you sign up.

EDIT added link for TextNow https://www.textnow.com/wireless

Ditto on used flatscreen (not-smart tv) from thrift shops; they’re light enough that you can take it with you when you move.

$500-$1000 is a good budget so you can buy new (non-smart tv) at the big box stores.

Yes, you should consider a good projector and a white bed sheet from the same thrift shop and iron it (I speak from experience). If the acoustics in your room is good then you may not need to spend a lot of money on speakers/headphones.

My friend couldn’t find black bed sheets so she bought the ugly stained ones and dyed them black and put them behind the curtains. We were able to do this setup in her backyard for the kids, too.

I also used a pre-primed canvas with my easel and worked just fine as soon as I got the angle right. Both came from JoAnn Fabric when they were closing the stores (maybe $35?). However, my Bose speakers and Sennheiser headphones were not cheap. Living in concrete and 2 different types of insulated walls are probably the reason why the acoustics suck.

That setup was so portable and worked really well that when my friend borrowed it she told me I wasn’t getting it back. You need to decide what you want to spend top dollar on: VR headset, projector, TV, etc. I’m actually curious how you end up with your entertainment setup. Good luck.

EDIT: I gave my old Harman Kardon speakers and subwoofer (from my old PC) to my friend and it still sounded good.

Perhaps it’s Luther, Line of Duty, Broadchurch, Endeavor, The Tunnel?

Or Midsummer Murder, Case Histories, Professor T?

It doesn’t sound like Death in Paradise, Brokenwood Mysteries, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Annika or The Fall.

BritBox has a list of tv series similar to Sherlock, Alienist, etc.

There’s Haden Clark but that’s gruesome. There’s a TV series about it on AppleTV and somewhere else I can’t remember but same title.

I’ll come back if I think of anything else. Good luck!

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🤦🏻‍♀️okay, good point.

Scroll all the way down: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

I posted in the wrong spot, sorry. There’s a link and screenshot here:

https://lemmy.myserv.one/comment/15441289

Here’s the link (scroll all the way down):
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

TBH, I haven’t really searched for any info regarding IP address.
I just assumed that everyone here on Lemmy lives behind layers of adblockers and has their VPN Kill Switch toggled ON.

Yes, exactly! This is just what they hoard on iOS devices:

Cat videos! Have you seen the upvotes on those vids?!? Amazing (and easy)!

Maybe the United States involvement in regime change in Latin America is what you had in mind?

Or perhaps you’d like to peruse through old CIA files.

YOUR body, YOUR choice!

If you think that you’ll regret it later on, you can always make a deposit to a sperm bank. These days, I highly doubt it’s covered by insurance. Also, you need to do some research (and a lot of phone calls/emails); some places are so damn strict that you need an appointment just to get info.

A friend did that before, he has no regrets. Good luck, young lemming!

EDIT: Just wanted to let you know that I’m a hypocrite. If you were my son, I’d talk you out of it.

Don’t forget to buy a bag of frozen peas!

For me, this happens when I switch from and back to voyager. Say I’m writing a comment and want to look something up and grab a link. I switch to the browser, grab my link, come back to voyager and the app refreshes back to “active, all”.

Same here. Edit: I never had “Auto Hide Read Posts” enabled. Just thought it was my crappy internet connection.

Ahhh, good to know. Thanks.

I had to look up wine cans. Lol Learned something new today.

Any hobbies? How about breaking a record?

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

Thank you so much for your patience. IDK what happened but I couldn’t post on imgur either.

• restarted phone
• refreshed VPN, used different VPN

Anyway, I was able to post on cooking@lemmy.world just now:

https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/19466673

I ended up downloading another app… it rhymes with sarcastic

c/Philippines

It was a screenshot of a news article, was able to post on community minus screenshot (had to use mobile DDG >myserv).

How do I upload it somewhere? Email? Thanks for your prompt response.