
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 09:23:18AM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
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.
My cordless phones have a charger for one of the handsets on the base, and during a power failure that handset will power the base station. The phone shows a message on it's screen to not remove it due to it powering the base station when the power is out. Pretty handy. A dumb old phone as a backup is still good to have around though. -- Len Sorensen