Smoke detectors are a dark UX pattern. Just have a "battery low" light, don't blink it out in morse code.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
This middle of the night tweet brought to you by someone who progressively disabled more and more alarms to find the culprit at 5 AM.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
smoke detector: *battery alert* dog: *barks in fear* me: *wakes up* sd: *goes silent* "haha have fun figuring out which one of us did that"
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
and how is it possible that it only happens in the middle of the night?
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Replying to @barrettclark
So I asked this once and got a plausible response: batteries lose charge when they get colder which they might at night.
5:58 AM - 1 Sep 2016
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