Not very many people want dumb phones, actually. Certainly not enough for anyone to mass produce the things.

You're speaking from a place of privilege. Not everyone can fork over $30k+ for a new car at the drop of a hat.

So you’re suggesting that illegal immigrants should steal identities to pay taxes?

No bud, we're suggesting that they already do, because they're given no other option.

https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream
https://github.com/hexated/cloudstream-extensions-hexated

People, by and large, associate with like-minded people. Ergo...

Buy a domain from Cloudflare and use your firewall (pfSense, OPNsense, etc) to do the dynamic DNS updates for you.

It does absolutely no good arguing with those denying Hamas perpetrated atrocities against civilians

Literally no one is denying that Hamas are a bunch of evil shitbags that killed a fuckload of civilians at the start of this. IT DOESN'T FUCKING EXCUSE ISRAEL KILLING 10X THAT NUMBER (AND COUNTING) IN RESPONSE.

The Israeli gov't is about as close to "evil" as exists these days.

Since I’m just renting, I have more disposable income for luxury shopping.

I know no one with a lower rent than my mortgage. Literally no one.

I currently use it with friends, and have been using it since it was called Google Talk.

Gabe himself is worth over 4 billion.

You should google "CG-NAT" and learn why mobile providers don't (and simply can't) provide you a public IP. Get yourself a cheap VPS, set up a reverse proxy, and open all the ports you want.