#backup phone

[writing-with-olive]

On October 4, at about 2:20pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), FEMA is doing an emergency alert test. This means that all phones, regardless of if they have been placed in do not disturb will go off with that beeping noise. If you have a secret backup phone that you need the people you're with to not know you have, set a reminder to turn it all the way off.

For apple phones, this means holding the power button for five seconds and swiping the "power off" switch that shows up on the screen. Same with androids and early google pixels, except you'll be tapping a button. For google pixels 6 and later, you'll hold the power button and the volume up button at the same time. To turn on for all phones, you'll hit the power button and wait a sec.

Remember that the alert will still come through when you turn your phone back on, so make sure that you are in a place where that noise is safe.

Note that, for whatever reason, if they can't put out the alert, the backup test date is October 11th.

The link below is to the official press release with the information.

[wyvrin]

Happy (belated) holidays, @mossytrash! I was your back-up gifter for @mlsecretsanta 2024! I am so sorry I could not get this to you sooner, but I hope you enjoy!

[ki1ldeer]

I’m on winter break so I’m drawing a lot lol SORRY! I mentioned that I found my drawcast archives and now my winter break goal is to redraw one a day… here’s redraw 1 of ??? But this one’s more of a redesign? 14-15 year old me was actually kinda great at gemsonas ngl

Original under the cut because I want my posts to be compact >:(

The quality is gonna be CRONCHY because the “drawcast archives” are actually a thumb drive I hastily put together in the lates nights of the winter of 2021 right before drawcast shut down. Uh yeah so I don’t know how to get better quality images of my old art rip. This is from 2016, I was 14 probably

[mondaymelon]

this morning has been the biggest fumble i put in my contacts one of them falls down the sink drain. i have to unscrew the pipes and get it out. i go on my phone only to realize that I've somehow forgotten the password I've used for a whole year and i don't know how or why what is happening what the fuck its locked rn and i don't know what to do oh god ohs df holyshita

[ropes3amthoughts]

Me: Why does my phone keep crashing

My photos app with an almost-40GB-sized belly: Idk

[sudanese]

I have 2 phones now and I can’t stop quoting that one song (I got 2 phones one for the bitches and one for the dough)

[emile-hides]

Drawing tablets!! I have used so many over the course of my life (joys of my aunt being a digital artist like- professionally. I got mad hand me downs)

When it comes to like- actually using it. Do you prefer it to have a screen or not? Tilt sensitivity? I know lots of cheaper tablets that get as low as $50 too which is a lot, but it’s insanely cheap by drawing tablet standards :D

I know jack shit about tablets, I didn't know they had tilt (like tilt controls??? Like the wii U????) so I could not tell you my preferences because I've only ever had one.

I've been using this little shitter for 8 years, my parents got him on Black Friday at a Best Buy in 2017 for like $25 and he's never caused me a problem in his life (other than sometimes forgetting what pressure sensitive is, but that's been fixable)

Truthfully, now that it's no longer 3am, I can very clearly see there's nothing actively wrong with the tablet itself, he's working just fine. All his buttons work, the computer recognizes him when he's plugged in, his light's on; It's the pen that's the problem.

As far as I can tell other than just being old, and maybe a little Bitten, the pen didn't have any reason to stop working. Mid drawing the tablet just stopped registering the pen and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. I've gone through all the trouble shooting I can and there's no reason for it to just stop working like that.

So. I guess I'm going to buy a $30 pen with all the money I made from commissions instead of a little birthday gift and HOPE it works, otherwise we're back to last night's panicked me's plan of getting a whole new ass tablet that I certainly cannot afford.

[baeshijima]

wdym i have completely forgotten my ipad passcode despite it literally only having a possibility of 6 combinations 🧍‍♀️ and all 6 did not work 🧍‍♀️

[lissomelace]

Latest chapter of Gilded Silks and Linens will not be up tomorrow. This is entirely the fault of SOMETHING between dropbox and scrivener that ate 2k words of chapter 35 when my computer died. Apologies for the delay.

[sysig]

Data is stored in the right eye (Patreon)

[buddie-wishes]

Do y'all ever wonder how many times the 118 has had to replace their phones/wallets/etc bc it was left in a building/cruise ship/car etc that was lost during an emergency

Hopefully they got insurance (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

[mollyrolls]

do you guys ever have days where you’re just absolutely losing

[faksyan]

Dropped my phone three times this morning and it died rip king I'll miss you

[mechahero]

//Here's the full version of the new header!

[quaranmine]

i get WAY too attached to inanimate objects. tell me why i want to hold a funeral for my old phone. she did me so good, she lasted 4.5 years of heavy use, took me through the entire pandemic, and i still didn't want to replace her until i was forced since i liked her so much. why am i sad,

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Got my ✨ phone stolen in the metro during rush hour ✨