[16:33] <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'
[17:50] <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
[21:31] <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
[21:42] <zxmpi> in times of catastrophe the government can reach me via fm radio. anything else is irrelevent
[21:44] <davef> FM? surely you mean short wave?
[21:53] <zxmpi> i do have a shortwave radio in my go bag but fm should last a while even in biggest emergency
[22:34] <penguin42> you just need to know whether Radio 4 Long Wave is still transmitting or not
[22:40] <zxmpi> off air now i thought
[22:45] <penguin42> Wikipedia still lists it
[22:45] <penguin42> https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7k