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Is it possible to redirect WhatsApp and Signal calls to a landline?
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Yes I realised that after I posted, sorry. Do you have any other ideas I could look at? I just want to keep my phone locked up and away from me when I'm in the house but still be able to talk to family over the chat apps they use (they are not very technically literate so Simplex is out of the question; it took a lot of convincing to get some of them in Signal)
use a house phone with only signal installed on it.
use a different phone user with only signal installed on it (you can use molly to share the same account on multiple phones)
It's still the same problem no? If I can't DeGoogle a phone then I don't know what and how much data is being captured. Honestly I really liked the idea to just keep the desktop app running on a separate PC with headphones plugged in. I'm wondering if USB landline converters exist so I can have it ring when a call comes but then I can speak like when I'm wearing headphones.
Thank you for the suggestion though
Why can't you degoogle a phone?
You can use GrapheneOS, or lineageOS... or a iphone, or a chinese phone...
Since its your home network you can block all network access except to signal for the phone.
You can use some voip service to have regular phone calls go to your pc.