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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

People that work on-call do this, especially in tech or security.

I'm considering making the switch because my paging calls are from a random set of phone numbers, so I cannot attach a specific ringtone to them. After a few horrible pages, you start to associate your phone going off as a world-ending experience, when it's just your wife calling to ask if you want her to pick something up for you from the shop. A separate device that disassociates my phone from pain would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Alternative thought, what about dual sims? Could you not assign a ringtone to a specific sim, and use that sims phone number only for work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This along with a work profile works just fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Barring that, something like a Google Voice number would work, too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

A separate device that disassociates my phone from pain would be nice.

Like a work phone?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Could you not just change the ring tones of your contacts to something else and then have all unknown callers use the bad time ring tone?