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I only found out it happened cos of this article

Edit: turns out it's today. I'm leaving this post up so that I never forget my shame

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[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully you didn't, because it's supposed to go off at 3pm today (Sunday)

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Haha that'll be why then! Thanks mate

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Loud and surprising. I wasn't expecting it.

[Edit] It was like someone set off a tiny fire alarm in my pocket.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

Yep. Also also it did not (at least on my tablet) have a silence button. Just OK. Where it disappeared

So in a real emergency situation. Most will be in situs where they want to shut the f?;?king noise off. And not have the ability to read it.