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I'm not being sarcastic, but I wonder what the intersection of the sets of people who leave smoke detectors disabled for convenience and people who are willing
by davidmr 13y ago
I'm not being sarcastic, but I wonder what the intersection of the sets of people who leave smoke detectors disabled for convenience and people who are willing to pay $120 for a smoke detector looks like.
As an aside, I genuinely have no idea what the fuss is about. In my entire life, I have never been bothered by a low battery smoke detector alert. I take 5 minutes and change the batteries in my detectors twice a year and they never ever beep.
- impendia 13y ago> I genuinely have no idea what the fuss is about. In my entire life, I have never been bothered by a low battery smoke detector alert. I take 5 minutes and change the batteries in my detectors twice a year This requires being very organized. If you are that organized, hats off to you. Many people (myself included, I admit) aren't.
- adeaver 13y agoNo it doesn't. It simply requires a reminder. On Jan 1, change the batteries. On June 1, change the batteries. Of if you live in a majority of the US, when you change the clocks, change the batteries. Neither of these schedules will sneak up on you. If you don't change them and it wakes you, it's your own fault. Sorry to sound snarky, but it's not _that_ complicated.
- nknighthb 13y agoI don't have any clocks that need manual changing. Haven't for years. And I rarely know what the date is unless some external stimuli makes me check. It's just not relevant to my daily life. Your experience is not mine, and mine is not yours. Why is it so offensive that someone has tried to make my life better? Is it just jealousy that they didn't work on one of your problems?
- adeaver 13y agoNever said anything was offensive, I was merely pointing out examples of ways that one could remind themselves to change the batteries. However if you insist on focusing one a singular viewpoint then I will remove myself from the conversation.
- jlgreco 13y agoIs your microwave networked or something? That is not typical.
- nknighthb 13y agoI'm not even really conscious of microwave clocks still being a thing. I guess my microwave probably has a clock, dunno why I'd ever set or use it, though. I just checked, apparently my stove has a clock, too. It's not set to anything resembling the current time. Neither of these appliances are things I would ever look at when I want to know what time it is, so I just file them under things that are not clocks.
- X-Istence 13y agoMy clocks no longer require manual changing, and those that do I end up replacing... I haven't been sure when daylights saving time starts/stops for a while now and have been caught off guard when I end up being early at work because my body naturally woke me up at a certain time.
- ballard 13y agoWhy waste so many batteries? Ultralife last a lot longer ($4.50 bulk price / 8 years) per cost than alkaline ($1.50 bulk price / 1 year) and are less work.