| In The Bedroom [message #91202] |
Mon, 18 November 2019 20:52  |
Concorde
Messages: 149
Registered: December 2013
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I was hearing today about the lack of sleep many people are getting and how it correlates with the rise of cell phones in the bedroom. Televisions as well.
Do you turn your phone off and into "Do not disturb" mode when you go to bed?
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| Re: In The Bedroom [message #91600 is a reply to message #91590] |
Sat, 21 March 2020 21:20  |
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gofar99
Messages: 1947
Registered: May 2010
Location: Southern Arizona
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Hi,  Anyhow my solution ...continued is that unlike many folks, we still keep a land line. The few folks that know that are ones I care to tell. There is a phone on the night stand. I also have serious call blocking so that unwanted calls seldom ring. Even in the daytime only about 1 every other week. None at night in over two years. If it goes off at night then someone probably does have a serious problem. Still it is unlikely that I could do much about at the time. As you might suspect, my cell phone is not my master, I am its master and it is to serve me and not me serve it as it seems happens with many individuals now. It is fully capable, but most gets use as a phone, next texts and then photos. No banking, no email, no facebook, twitter, no GPS (the vehicle has that) and only a few apps I find useful. BTW, we don't allow phone use at the dinner table.
Good Listening
Bruce
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| Re: In The Bedroom [message #91603 is a reply to message #91600] |
Sun, 22 March 2020 12:45 |
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Wayne Parham
Messages: 18783
Registered: January 2001
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I'm with you on the land line. My main phone is a land line. I rarely answer it though. Long gone are the days when you could expect the call to be important or even reasonable. Now days, most calls are spam. So I let the answering system take the call and act like a call screener.
I used to maintain an analog tip-and-ring land line, shunning newer VoIP product offerings. I preferred to use the old-school network, and did until 2012 when I left Tulsa and moved to Bella Vista. But now even AT&T has largely abandoned analog technologies, preferring instead to put new customers on uVerse, which is a VoIP solution. So sadly, that's what I'm running now.
To digress a moment with a mini-soapbox: The old analog telephone network in the USA was the most robust network on the planet. No matter what kinds of electrical storms raged, no matter what kinds of solar emissions from flares and sunspots, you had voltage across tip and ring and could complete a call. The primary and secondary surge protection on the lines, the use of relatively old switching technologies and the use of batteries as power backups made that network incredibly resilient. In an emergency, you might lose power but you didn't lose your telephone.
Now days, the phone system is completely unreliable. It goes out even when there are no weather conditions or power problems.
We've gone backwards in a big way.
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