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Voice, YouTube, & occassionally Translate (sorry, your FOSS option doesn’t cover non-European languages well) are the Google servers I can’t quite shake. I almost never use the Voice account but when I do, it’s some required voice call from a US number for a bank or similar—which is very important, to make these calls, but it is so infrequent that I can’t justify paying for an entire service for 1–2 (usually very long) calls annually.
Yeah, I'm generally overseas and many things need a US number for 2fa. It's the only thing that I still need it for. Translate as well for Japanese.
You’d love to see more things adopt 2FA like FIDO2 or TOTP, but too many things go to like Symantec to hide your keys from you or roll some shitty in-house, in-app version of 2FA that you can’t keep separate from a mobile device--which is a device like to break since it usually goes a lot of places with you.
What do you use? I need 2FA for US companies via text and am looking for a Google Voice replacement.
I'm still stuck with Google voice for now
Oh ok. My US bank needs 2FA and Google voice won't work with it
See voip.ms for voice. I can't speak for specific non-European languages, but I've been quite happy with LibreTranslate for my on the fly needs. Setup was dead easy too. (And if you see a lack of coverage for particular languages, obviously your contributions to improve that would be welcome)
Well I live, operate, & travel around Asia so English is the only European language to know—which I don’t need help with. I use Yandex Translate primarily just to partition my data usage between servers (image search is the only other thing I use Yandex for), but its offerings aren’t quite as broad for languages like Lao & the quality of translations is slightly worse. All of the European languages are basically the same if you squint your ears so it is no surprise the FOSS tools can handle something easy, but Western-centrism in tech isn’t a new thing.