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Got an emergency alert on my phone earlier, here's some more details. (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If course I quickly acknowledged it, so my phone would stop wailing, so missed the details.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (27 children)

I just got one at 11:00 o'clock at NIGHT. It was the second I got today. Those air sirens scare the hell out of me. why cant they just reserve the warning noise for natural diasters. I'm okay with getting amber alerts notifications on everyone's phone but theres so no need to play such a spine chilling sound effect.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

TIL those alerts respect 'do not disturb'.

I keep that on while I sleep.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Unfortunately I can't, because I'm on-call for work so the poorly targeted alerts do nothing but interrupt my sleep.

There is more granularity built into he system, but the Canadian implementation chooses not to use those for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that on most phones you can allow calls from specific callers through on do not disturb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sadly it doesn't work well on iPhone (with certain apps, anyways). So I don't trust do not disturb/sleep focus mode when on-call.

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