On 2024-01-16 07:16, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:46 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]
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(The old Bell system had large lead-acid batteries in the COs.
Oldhandsets were actually powered by the CO. Modern ones have their
ownpower for many functions. So we used to expect the phone to
workduring "hydro" failures.)
I still do.
While I have some cheap Vtech phones with message recorder plugged into the
landline, I still maintain one plain touchtone phone in the living room that
has no external power and still runs fine.
The main phones in the house are cordless. The handset will still operate
during a power failure but the base would not. For that reason my family
also has one old style phone powered from the CO just in case we need to use
a phone during a power failure.
It also means that none of our phones are of the type that can receive any
text messages so all these sites that assume one has a cell phone that can
receive messages as part of a 2FA process. I recently copied all of my
source code repositories from github to gitlab due to the problems of 2FA.
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