Going to switch emergency alerts back on again—on the only phone I usually carry, now that they've got the idiotic test over and done with.

(I HATE being arbitrarily interrupted by my phone and have notifications permanently turned off. A real live emergency is one thing I'll accept, system tests are something else.)

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It's an interesting question of how to test systems that only have extremely infrequent (we hope) use.

I can argue that there are ZERO emergencies where I want my phone to interrupt me. But if there are some that I want, I think I have to accept that I'll suffer more tests to know if and how it works than actual emergencies.

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