Lmao one of the discords I’m in sent out a warning ahead of it to “turn off any second secret phones you have”
I might be part of some sketchy discord servers lol, warning people to turn off their cheating or crime phones 🤣
People in abusive relationships sometimes have secret phones in case theirs get taken by the abusive partner. I think a lot of the warnings I’ve seen are directed at those people.
I think it’s more directed to victims of abuse or domestic violence, who sometimes try to keep a phone hidden from their abuser that is outside of their abuser’s control.
A lot of people also have two phones due to less dire circumstances than those listed here or criminal related things - like people with work phones.
When there’s an alert (usually Amber alerts) late at night having four cell phones screeching and awakening you from the depths of sleep is panic inducing. My husband and I both have personal phones and work phones and it’s jarring to say the least when they all go off at once.
I’m a fire fighter so I’m used to phone alarms, but this one was a different tone so I was like “holy shit IS THIS THE BIG ONE?” narrator “it was in fact not the big one”
Was that nationwide? I was on my lunch break and it scared the crap out of me.
I’d been waiting on it so I can hassle the office conspiracy nut when nothing happens.
They’ll just tell you you’re infected with 5G now.
Yes. You should have received a text message about a week ago that the system was being tested today and to not panic
This is the first I’m hearing of the pre-text warning. I found out through memes maybe 3 days ago!
Memes are where I get most of my news these days
This would be funny if it werent so relatable
I never got any warning. The only way I found out was through lemmy
I hadn’t heard anything until on public radio 3 minutes prior. then the alert was 2 minutes early!
Yes, it even happened in our schools lol. Also mine for just used Google TTS to read it out. That wouldn’t have been weird if it didn’t read it again but in Spanish a few minutes later…
I was in class when it happened
My professor gave up and just sat down for about 5 minutes until everyone’s phones stopped blaring
It was so loud!!! I knew it was coming but on my phone, the volume shattered all the bones in my hand anyway.
Wait, I’m out of the loop, what happened? Is the end of all things upon us?
Naw. Everything ended earlier today. This is the afterlife. Most of us are still figuring it all out.
Yup. World ended this afternoon. What are you doing still here?
Happened in the UK last year. I worked on an IT Service Desk where we had like 50 phones being rebuilt. I was in the building on my own on a weekend. I thought it was Armageddon.
Did anyone else not get the message? I was in a store when it went off on the radio station they had playing over the speakers, but I didn’t get anything on my phone.
Yup. During a meeting. That was …fun
Wait, so you didn’t get the alert while everyone else in your meeting did?
No we all got it about the same time. I misread your question.
I did get the notification. My bad
There were half a dozen posts on lemmy over the last few days. I guess most people don’t sort by all though
Interesting that it specifically says each phone was supposed to get one alert, and that it can tell if your phone is set to see English or Spanish and send the appropriate language. I just got two alerts a few minutes apart, in English and Spanish
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I was so confused because it happened while I was driving so I couldn’t turn it off, and it just kept going and going for like dive minutes. I have all those dumb alerts turned off in the settings so I don’t even know why it went off in the first place.
It’s an emergency alert. So of course cannot be disabled, it would be stupid if it could be disabled it would completely miss the point.
EDIT: It seems like at least on the UK can be disabled so maybe other places too…to me it defeats the main purpose but whatever…
I mean I guess it makes sense in some situations for secondary phones or similar but then there risk of not receiving the alert, of course you could aswell be without a phone and nobody nearby and also don’t get the alert.
Idk… like it’s not a common thing that happens so that the secondary phone or similar sounds it’s not that terrible, that said there are some exceptions shown in the comments about abusive relations so I could see that being an issue.
I’m in the UK and we can disable them here 🤷🏻♀️
Interesting 🤔 yeah I saw instructions online. Idk to me it defeats the main pourpose of alerting everybody no matter.
That said reading comments there are some examples of people having second phones hidden that could be a problem.
I think it should always be optional. We don’t have to have our TVs on 25/7. I’m certainly no tinfoil hat wearer but I don’t think the government should have access to our private spaces at all times unless we consent to it.
I mean is a one direction alert, that it’s intended to be only used on extreme/severe cases like if there a chemical leak where you are or a big fire or a tsunami or in worse case a missile but that last one would be uncommon for most people. Stuff that would require people to evacuate or move to safer places rather quickly.
I wouldn’t say the government is having access to your private space, and is just an alert that you dismiss… It’s not like it’s locking down your phone or remotely accessing it or some weird shit.
In some countries they are also used for missing people, train crashes, terrorist attacks, pandemic quarantine rule changes. I’m not opposed to getting this information, but I am opposed to it not being optional.
And I have zero trust in our current government and could absolutely see it being misused down the line. But, for now, they can be turned off here.
i can disable it in australia on android
Smack it with a hammer
I have never gotten an emergency alert of any sort before this one. I have them disabled because I don’t care. It’s my phone, I can do as I please with it. Besides, if it is meant to reach every person in [country] you know that not everyone has a phone, right?
f*cking dystopia
The article was posted to Lemmy two days ago, and you were still caught off guard?
Turn signals must be completely useless to you
have you never jumped when the toaster goes off, even though you’re staring at it waiting for it to go off? what’s life without debilitating anxiety like?
Sorry, I can’t talk to you, I must remain pure
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