<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Some people have to for their safety or medical health (e.g. they're hiding a burner phone from an abusive relative, or their blood pressure goes up dangerously high when jumpscared).<br><br>The kinds of people who remove batteries from smoke alarms are going to unfortunately use this affordance, if it's offered. I say let them.</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">Le 4 octobre 2023 18:39:04 UTC, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> a écrit :</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto">On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Sabri Berisha wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>Do you mean the 98 people (at least) who died due to the Maui Lahaina wildfires. Seems like the same people who complain about the testing of public warning systems also complain when they don't get a warning about something that personally affected them.<br><br><br>Public warning systems are designed to get your attention, wake you up, interrupt what you are doing.<br><br>Nevertheless, I understand some people will remove the batteries from smoke alarms and turn off public alerts.<br></div></pre></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>