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 <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
(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. -- Cheers! Kevin. https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | "Nerds make the shiny things that | distract the mouth-breathers, and Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | that's why we're powerful" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick