Sooner or later either they stop responding to my summoning or I stop summoning them thinking I'm bothering them too much ...

What I'm I using then to "Skype" my family?

I love the little renesanse of vintage memery that the great Reddit exodus of 2023 created <3

... so bull is fair game (of seduction & passion)?

For real. And then there is also the classic 'their lives are probably a bit better without my crappy presence in it, so it's only moral to leave them alone'.

I want a Linux phone too!! (The N900 was the best phone I ever had)

And open sauce

Oh yeah, that did happen (it was a completely separate protocol iirc, they just used the same name). Even with a local app it just redirects to Teams (I'm too lazy to uninstall it at the office so like twice a year or starts with Windows logon). It's funny how MS keeps buying competitors from the same market & they end up with line 5 business social media apps, several chat services, etc.