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oh man the mystery beep cable box thing? it’s a $40 battery, and it exists so that if the power goes out we can still use our landline.
you know, the landline we’ve never hooked up, that they made us buy because clearly they get government subsidies for landline phones
so we can call them for a new battery but they’ll charge us $40 plus a labor charge and such
or we could just pull the dead battery ourselves… if we can do it.
we googled it and there are a ton of pages about “make the beeping stop” but none of them actually seem to have directions that work to pull the battery
so i might just now live in a world where my basement beeps every quarter-hour because i can’t stop it and I’m not fucking paying them $40+ to replace a battery I don’t need for a service I literally can’t use. (I don’t have a phone to hook up to the jack.)
I did find out what the number is, though. Then I actually had to search for the phone app on my smartphone to call it to see if it worked. That is the first time in the six years we’ve had that line that anyone has ever called it deliberately.
(Nothing happens. We don’t have a phone.)
We can hush the beeping for a while, there’s a button we can press. I guess we’ll find out how long it goes without beeping.
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oh man the mystery beep cable box thing? it’s a $40 battery, and it exists so that if the power goes out we can still use our landline.
you know, the landline we’ve never hooked up, that they made us buy because clearly they get government subsidies for landline phones
so we can call them for a new battery but they’ll charge us $40 plus a labor charge and such
or we could just pull the dead battery ourselves… if we can do it.
we googled it and there are a ton of pages about “make the beeping stop” but none of them actually seem to have directions that work to pull the battery
so i might just now live in a world where my basement beeps every quarter-hour because i can’t stop it and I’m not fucking paying them $40+ to replace a battery I don’t need for a service I literally can’t use. (I don’t have a phone to hook up to the jack.)
I did find out what the number is, though. Then I actually had to search for the phone app on my smartphone to call it to see if it worked. That is the first time in the six years we’ve had that line that anyone has ever called it deliberately.
(Nothing happens. We don’t have a phone.)
We can hush the beeping for a while, there’s a button we can press. I guess we’ll find out how long it goes without beeping.
(Your picture was not posted)
