[jsharkey]

Instead of paying for a separate SIM, I've been piggybacking on the "data only" SIMs that Google Fi let's you add to a normal subscription. No extra per-SIM fees, and you just pay for whatever data it uses at $10/gb.

More details on my modem, monitoring setup, and IPMI backhaul strategy using Wireguard here: http://jsharkey.org/ipmi/

[alias_neo]

That sounds like a nice idea. Unfortunately I don't believe anything similar exists here in the UK.

I can pay my mobile provider an extra £7.50 per month for a "second SIM" to share the allowance from my main SIM (you're effectively paying to rent another number).

It's not a terrible expense, but for something I need to send an SMS maybe 1 per quarter is a little much. I guess if you look at it as a "service" it's not bad, but this was a home thing, nothing critical would be lost if I couldn't get my home IP until I got home. Now I use DDNS using a small piece of Go code I wrote to update the domain on my Digital Ocean account as a form of "free" DDNS, it runs on my router on connect/reboot.

[sneak]

It surprises me how many people are willing to let Google know their home address.

[godelski]

You don't need Google Fi for Google to know your home address. An Android phone will do that. Or Chrome. Or really just broadcasting wifi. Really the problem is you have a home address and someone will sell it to Google.

[catlikesshrimp]

I like what you did there. Google is a given, a person having a home address is the problem, the collection method is a variable solution.

[throaway46546]

They already know.