Oh hey, I recognize who wrote that article!

Super interesting to see she found something others would consider niche to cope with depression.

I spent the last few years at the same time bouncing around various ISP's in different roles. Some friends and I have joked that I'm the "Roy Batty of Telecom". Having touched just about every method that people these days use to access TV, Internet and Phone

There's a certain wonderment that these inexplicable mishmashes of tech that cover the entire world "just work" with one another. Providing services that most people take for granted

I thought talking to someone or just some encouragement might help. I called the number but it just took me to a busy signal!

Hi hi, author of the story here.

I just upgraded the router I was using for this last night and forgot to re-add that dialpeer.

  dial-peer voice 6129913 pots
   destination-pattern 14156129913
   supplementary-service pass-through
   direct-inward-dial
   port 0/0/0:23
   forward-digits 7

That number goes straight to my conferencing system as a quick demo I thought might amuse some.

I'm doing well enough, but I felt I should write a story detailing coping with depression through tech. ;p

TLDR; Ended up with old PBX's and set them up in her apartment.

Longer: Learning how to interact with these PBX's (and lots of purchases from Weird Stuff), it's helping her deal with depression.

*Edited for correct gender.