Remember those days when every house had a landline phone? The familiar ring echoing through the house, the satisfying click of picking up the handset, and that curly cord that would inevitably get tangled? While most of us have long abandoned traditional landlines in favor of our smartphones, there’s something fascinating about bringing this technology back with a modern twist.

Reading about someone’s recent DIY VoIP phone system project got me thinking about our increasing dependence on mobile phones. The setup they described - using FusionPBX and FreeSWITCH on Proxmox - sparked my inner geek’s interest. It’s precisely the kind of project that would keep me happily occupied during those scorching summer weekends when staying indoors with the air-con is the only sensible option.