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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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