• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    272 months ago

    How about physical buttons?
    And additionally also unsubscribe-but-keep-the-tech-I-bought-working-as-is buttons?

  • @Serinus
    link
    English
    142 months ago

    Seems like a reasonable safety feature. There are often signs with an AM radio station listed for broadcasts. And it requires less tech (and fewer issues) than cell service.

    • @Mango
      link
      English
      22 months ago

      Often enough that I’ve literally never once seen one.

  • @esc27
    link
    English
    72 months ago

    Has anyone here actually used AM radio during an emergency? I’ve used FM to keep track of a tornado once and weatherband a few times, but never AM.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      Once. As a kid. Just because I had an AM pocket radio and the power was out due to a storm. Turned out to be a tornado warning one county over. Scared the bejesus outta me and I kept looking outside to see if there was any funnel clouds forming.

  • walden
    link
    fedilink
    English
    62 months ago

    I’d hate for there to be any interference to the pristine audio quality of AM radio.

    • @Zannsolo
      link
      English
      12 months ago

      Am has it’s used, like picking up sf sports radio in Oregon

    • @friend_of_satan
      link
      English
      12 months ago

      It may not be pristine, but it has a iconic, nostalgic sound.

  • The Pantser
    link
    English
    22 months ago

    Now if only we could disable the radio in the settings. I have never been in a car where the infotainment system didn’t randomly default back to the radio when it couldn’t connect to the phone or AA fast enough. It’s startling when randomly the radio comes on full blast because you might have been listening to a stream or podcast at a certain volume and then paused it when you arrived at your destination but didn’t reduce the volume. I want the radio but on my own terms.

  • @ganksy
    link
    English
    12 months ago

    Can’t let anything happen to our precious 24hr talk radio and Christian brainwash

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      32 months ago

      Local stations, NPR, classical music, jazz, blues, local sports teams all broadcast on AM as well.

      • @reddig33
        link
        English
        22 months ago

        Maybe so. But make no mistake — this is the right wing talk radio lobby freaking out and pushing this legislation.