There’s an amazing movie called “Sound Of Metal” that is about a musician losing his hearing like this. Definitely worth a watch.

Theres an update to in that article that says there was a rewritten version of the book that was actually published in the 1950s, but the author of the article couldn’t get his hands on a copy to verify if “The Elon” was mentioned in it. Some story possibly still holds up

I can’t remember at this point, as google stealthily reclaimed my number at some point because the decided it wasn’t being used enough

A lot of services block known voip numbers. I remember my Google voice number not working on a lot of sites

I have fail2ban running on the server itself, also it was a lot more than “a few scripts”

The volume on 22 will be a lot higher than a non default port. With 22 open my router was basically getting DDOS’d at times