| penguin42 | I did a mastodon poll; 57% got the alert, 33% didn't but were expecting it, 11% didn't but had an old phone - and I forgot an entry for 'turned it off' | 16:33 |
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| zxmpi | heard a recording off it. seems to be an os dependent jobbie alright. not an sms, some weird government announement thingy used in states for amber alerts | 17:50 |
| zxmpi | not as high as presidential alert seemingly | 17:50 |
| zxmpi | god help the usa if trump gets back in as he'll use that instead of twitter | 17:50 |
| davef | we've had that national alert system for a while here | 21:31 |
| davef | most people i know turned off the alerts | 21:31 |
| davef | because the government abused it during the pandemic times | 21:31 |
| zxmpi | in times of catastrophe the government can reach me via fm radio. anything else is irrelevent | 21:42 |
| davef | FM? surely you mean short wave? | 21:44 |
| zxmpi | i do have a shortwave radio in my go bag but fm should last a while even in biggest emergency | 21:53 |
| penguin42 | you just need to know whether Radio 4 Long Wave is still transmitting or not | 22:34 |
| zxmpi | off air now i thought | 22:40 |
| penguin42 | Wikipedia still lists it | 22:45 |
| penguin42 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7k | 22:45 |
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