"135,908 feet, more than 25 miles" - I had to laugh, a mile is not anyhow more imaginable unit than a foot.

> Nobody transfers video to POTS, so it hardly matters that you are unaware of such.

I should have written s/POTS/PSTN/ where 3G is a part of it. Someone could transfer 3G<->SIP/TOX, I am not so sure no one in the world does it.

> to understand that Skype is totally backdoored, and unsafe to even have on your machine

Any proprietary software is unsafe to have on my machine, any proprietary software can be backdoored, therefore one has to handle any proprietary software as an already backdoored one.

BTW SIP can sure also do video and also encryption. I have no idea why Tox reinvents the wheel. But the original comment's argument was that with callee having only Skype one can use video via Skype. Via plain old telephone one really does not get video. One can call via 3G cell phone but then it is expensive. I am really not aware of any SIP-to-POTS provider who would transfer also video. (But as I said I do not care about video myself.)

I use voice and video chat extensively, and using any option that is not Skype would cost me hundreds of dollars per month, while it costs me 50$ per year using Skype.

OMG "hundreds"? Use Betamax SIP provider (via one of its dealers) for USD 5/month, that is USD60/year. Yes, you have to pay slightly more to keep your freedoms.

Using your unknown software

Linphone

if you only talk with 3 other Linux tards

Bullshit, I call to non-SIP people/businesses via Linphone via SIP via local voocall.cz provider to their cell phones for such a low price I consider it free (USD5/month for me).

International calls to your home country are cheap/free for VoIP using your home country VoIP provider. To call arbitrary countries use Betamax SIP provider with international calls for IIRC USD 5/month. Besides that at least in my home country Skype is 8x more expensive than SIP providers. And no video is an advantage.

Do you have any idea how expensive it is to call international numbers?

Use VoiP provider from your home country and pay only for the local call in your home country. I was calling that way from Japan in 2005.

If you really need to call arbitrary countries (I do not) use Betamax SIP provider, it provides international calls for IIRC USD 5/month.

Also, Skype is usually used for video calls,

That's an advantage I do not have to use video.

I use plain old telephone when I do need to talk with Skype people. It is more convenient for me, what's the problem with that?

> Works on almost any IP network, without any major configuration

Just run openvpn to get IPv6 which you need anyway. I agree Linux OS has a problem it does not run Teredo automatically like MS-Windows does.

> and allow you to make free calls to many and cheap calls to many networks.

Skype is not cheap, it is 8x as expensive as local VoIP competitors.

> Please name that package? I've been looking for years.

I have good experience with Linphone and formerly Twinkle.

> And, can you talk to people who have Skype with them?

No. It is their problem when they are incompatible.

It would be more useful to go the opposite way - keep Ubuntu the same, just add QWERTY keyboard to the phone. Otherwise we have to pay for our own phone manufacturing - Neo900.

Try the game called "coding", it has rich scenarios and many levels of gaming.

This is probably the reason why you do not see the crashes. When you reboot often enough the kernel does not rot fast enough. Although I get sudden reboots completely randomly, even after one day, but the sudden reboots may be caused by some hardware/BIOS issue (BIOS updates do not help, Lenovo X220). And after all you may not be messing up with many USB hubs/extenders, rotten flashdisks etc. That one computer does not crash does not prove the kernel is rock solid on every computer. The monolithic (non)design of Linux kernel can never be really stable.

This is off-topic, I am aware _servers_ are stable; the discussion here was about desktops.

Exactly, 3-4 weeks but never more. That's the problem.

Currently I have small swap (1GB for 8GB of memory).