Changing a smoke detector battery before the next beep startles me so much I fall off the ladder is as close as I get to defusing bombs.
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@mattblaze It’s incredible to me that in this day and age, as one is sleepily roaming around the house at 3AM trying to determine which smoke detector is chirping every 3 to 19 minutes, that making the fucking red LED on every smoke detector blink when the battery is dying isn’t a thing.
Yes I need a smoke alarm. I do have co2 … I haven’t heard a smoke alarm in awhile .
@mattblaze I recently replaced my end-of-lifespan (10 yrs) smoke detectors with new ones that claim their battery lasts 10 years.
(IIRC, there's a speck of radioactive material in them, whose decay determines the detector's lifespan)
@mattblaze The recommendation is to change them twice a year when we adjust our clocks, but I chose long ago to do it on NYE and the Fourth of July for the following reasons:
1) The dates are more memorable,
2) I'm more likely to have help,
3) Batteries are sale-priced, and
4) The task is far more enjoyable with a cocktail
@mattblaze One of my favorite games of all time is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
It’s great - one person can “see” the bomb, the other has the “defusal manual”. The one with the bomb can’t see the manual, the one with the manual can’t see the bomb.
They have to work together and communicate well to get it done before the bomb. 5 minutes on the clock.
@mattblaze Visited my parents for Thanksgiving, and in their single-story two-bedroom they have four smoke detectors -- all of which decided to start beeping overnight Thanksgiving morning. And they don't all use the same kind of batteries or have the same battery holder. (Some are 9-volt, some 2xAA. And of course once you get the latter sort open, good luck figuring out the correct polarity because it's marked in injection-molded white text on white ABS.)
@mattblaze I never got the whole "defusing bombs" thing. The detonator is right there, sticking out of the semtex. Simply remove it. It doesn't matter what sort of weird electronics are involved, just remove the detonator. Why make it hard?
Spent 2 or 3 years in "bomb disposal" and the trick was to get the new diaper on before the kid pooped again...
All mine are cleverly programmed to do that at 3 am.