When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by ipqk on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:36PM (#24760255)

The iPhone has an option to let phone calls ring if called twice in a row. I've told everyone that might possibly be calling me in an emergency to do so if they really need to get through. You can alternatively create an emergency list of numbers and let them ring through on the 1st attempt. I assume Android has something similar.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by ghaff on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:41PM (#24760299)

You can choose to let contacts through. The potential fail is calls coming from an emergency service like the police or a hospital who don't try a second time. I choose to use Do Not Disturb anyway but reasonable people can disagree on the most appropriate thing to do. (And it may depend on individual circumstances.)

The GP or so was talking about airplane mode though. I assume nothing gets through in that case. Personally I'd use DND rather than airplane mode.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by hunter2_ on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @12:10AM (#24762198)

DND with contacts excepted is good, but it has another failure mode: food delivery. They do tend to call twice, but the whole thing is more pleasant when disabling DND at time of ordering. Naturally, reenabling DND tends to happen only after the next spam call.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by dheera on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @12:21AM (#24762241)

Yeah you can always disable it for a short time when you're expecting food, not a big deal. Just write a script that allows you to disable for 30 minutes and it auto-reenables after that.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by wincy on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:31PM (#24761413)

Spammers have learned this and will call twice. This got REALLY annoying when I was in work meetings and my phone would start ringing to tell me about my car's extended warranty.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by jofaz on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:51AM (#24762963)

I have numbers not in my contact list sent to voicemail but I have noticed I commonly see two calls in a row, never put that together before

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by giancarlostoro on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:33AM (#24762584)

They never seem to call me twice... I would hang up if they did.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by bipson on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:12AM (#24763391)

Yes, Android also has a DND-mode with configurable exceptions: what type of message/call gets through, who gets through right away, or after how many repeat calls.

Further, you can schedule it or even trigger by certain calendar events. Very convenient if you have small children and don't want the random calls from grandparents or old friends checking in at inconvenient times (apparently if they don't have children but working a lot they don't consider 9pm to be "a bad time" - how should they?).

We used Airplane mode at nights before (even before we had kids), but were stressed about missed emergencies from relatives and stopped doing that.

Disclaimer: I get approx. 2 calls per week, and this is mostly businesses calling back, etc. I still don't want to miss emergencies though.

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