Pager Lives Again Thanks To Python And Mastodon

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines

  Huh. I never thought about it before, but the times I can remember pagers being a significant plot points in sitcoms is when they were already on the way out. Dennis Duffy’s pager business on 30 Rock for example.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They use pagers all the time in Scrubs, since hospitals were one of the last places were pagers were still useful.

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still do, I have my pager on me right now. Though I feel they’ve gone down in quality over the years. I usually go through at least one a year, and the buzzer function tends to die after just a few months.

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  • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dennis, what are your politics?

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  • mister_flibble@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was Big Bob’s Beepers on Hey Arnold.

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• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pagers never died in the hospital

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used one in 2019 when my wife was pregnant.

    I work in secure facilities where I can’t have any phones, smart watches, anything with wifi, microphones, etc. However, pagers are allowed since they receive only.

    I was also pretty mobile, moving between buildings so calling my desk phone was very unreliable.

    The pager service I got had an email gateway so my wife could either text or email messages to it.

    I set up 2 iOS shortcuts to send emails. One said “call me when you can” and the other said “call me NOW”.

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• harcesz@szmer.info ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No idea if this can be secure in any reasonable way, but one way communication based on cheap devices and available frequencies could be quite attractive for activist mass mobilisations 🤔

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pagers are still fairly popular for hospital workers. And they are still very popular among people who have to work in secure areas or on airgapped machines because it is (effectively) one way communication.

    But for the vast majority of people? SMS provides all the same benefits (I mean, pagers are basically just one way SMS boxes) and emergency alert systems already exist.

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    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pagers also work even in parts of the hospital that cell phones don’t for whatever reason. At least last time I had a hospital pager a few years ago. Now a lot of places use commercial solutions like vocera that also work everywhere and allow two way voice comms.

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  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Might want to look into LoraWan and similar.

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• melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  nice

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