vudumommajuju
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And now my phone is never off of silent mode.
Aug 11, 2025 2:19 AM
vudumommajuju
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And now my phone is never off of silent mode.
HoldingAccount
Where is this actually from? What is he doing? What's with all the equipment?
And bonus points if you don't make the joke about converting an mp3 to a ringtone.
SingingMeAndCthulioDownByRlyehFhtagn
Shit.... I had a Sony Erickson T 68I which I had to punch in letters and symbols in the right order from a webpage to get new ringtones on my phone
PartTimeGamerDad
I had the Fraggle Rock theme as my ringtone!
PaddyPatrick
Yes, this! I still have a few saved…that much effort and it’s painful to let them go.
zoeytg
Someone told me the skills we picked up doing stuff like this as millennials that younger generations don't have those kinds of tech skills. I'd always just assumed that every younger than me would also know those soft tech skills. Didn't really think about the fact that tech is much more user friendly. Can't remember the last time I had to start in bios or make a startup disk encase I needed to reinstall windows.
YourdecisionsSuck
The dude in that chair is wearing a diaper.
Beefkins
Me using my digital audio workstation to make a 30 second ringtone I'll use for a week and then put on vibrate.
STGxDante
Gone are the days of getting "free" ringtones and then getting a $60-$200 bill at the end of the month. Same if you accidentally opened the web option when it wasn't on your plan.
Lmonsieur
The fax part is essential.
MasterChristopher
My phone just never rings. :^)
RadasNoir
Don't have to worry about your phone ringing if there's nobody who wants to call you. *taps forehead*
Rihn
What is he packing down there?!?
nintendolunchbox
Itunes made it easy. You just renamed the mp3 to
.rt
sometimesidontevenknowwhyibother
I did get an Adventure Time ring tone for my wife. "I'm a buff baby that can dance like a man, I can shake-a my fanny, I can shake-a my can". She accidentally dialed me while standing in line last week in Korea and was absolutely mortified.
9bitPsychoFox
I recorded various Super Mario sounds from an actual cart in an original NES console back on my Note 2. I still use them on my s23. Coin collection, down the pipe and jump sounds! When I hear the pipe I know I can ignore the email as it's from my spam email.
morningxafter
I miss old iTunes. It was so easy to take any mp3, select a chunk of it and save that chunk as an m4a file to use it as a ringtone.
SisyphusRollin
I remember using the phone itself to make the Zelda theme song.
CrisprCAS
I just wish there was a law that phones had to have a ringtone that sounded like a phone ringing.
teardropivyyearofthetiger
God no! May lightning strike you
LDRcycles
I don't want Enya played in beeps, I just want a ringy noise
Canigetbannedagain2
Mine is the opening theme song from Metalocalypse, it's a good way to find any other metal heads around me.
Canigetbannedagain2
A good lady friend still converts movies to a mp3 format to listen at work.... Her laptop has the wifi card removed because any updates would crash her video converter program, it runs win 8... And she doesn't want to find a newer one that runs on Win 10/11.
DianNaoChong
The built in one in 8 is good and it changed for the much worse later.
TheDreadPirateMontoya
If it ain't broke, don't let it auto-update.
Z0op
Yah internet is the only real reason to upgrade, sinply due to security, but functionally, what can a modern win11 machine do what win8 cant, if you only use very basic functionality?
Performance of the machine itself used to be a thing, but not so much anymore
Wouldnt be much of a problem if you could upgrade hassle free and microsoft not putting more and more crap into it.
slowshutterspeed
This whole thread feels like you could replace computer jargon with car jargon and have a transcript for the first 20 minutes of conversation every Thanksgiving growing up when the dads and uncles went outside.
“They just don’t make em like they used to.” “Well I don’t know, modern security is nice.”
“ Don’t need security when you can’t be attacked. My machine does exactly what I want it to , and when it can’t I also know how to fix it”
“I don’t care what it looks like. As long as It works”
Z0op
True, but car analogies always break down at some point, because your car wont be attacking others, help criminals, feed you commercials and ither garbage, just because you never upgraded its security since you bought it. A car of 30 years ago is likely to still be very usable.
The analogy probably works better if we forget about security and you only drive your car on a private lot (staying of the internet)
slowshutterspeed
Hey, I like that analogy of security from dangers on the internet is off the internet like a car that is never driven out of the parking lot.
SisyphusRollin
She makes me very happy. PC's are tools, if you get one doing what you want it to do. Its a working tool. I used to hate sales in IT in any form, always overselling shit people didn't need (late 90s early 2000s).
Canigetbannedagain2
She's happy, I really want to upgrade her stuff, to make it faster, better, but she happy in her world, so that's fine
SisyphusRollin
I once had a guy, forever ago like 1998, who wanted me to upgrade his home PC at Edelbrock (was IT tech there). Soldering memory onto the motherboard lol. He refused to upgrade, he wanted I think it was a Pentium 2 or some shit. I remember being at Frys and having a laugh with the techs as we searched for the old shit.
XuncuTheTiger
If it supports it: an SSD is the best all-around upgrade for people who aren't gaming. As of like... Around 2010, the classic platter drives are the speed bottleneck for computers where the cost for an SSD was low enough to make it commonly feasible; a smaller one for mainly just the OS, and their data on the platter. Also less wear and tear on either or, and easier to recover if a virus or corruption got the OS, but still rescue the actual personal files.
SisyphusRollin
I've got so many old HDDs and praying we invent something one day that'll recover the data on those busted ass drives heh. 10TB of NVME in this beast I got now heh.
marsilies
Does she extract the audio track with audio description, or just fill in the gaps because she's seen the movie before?
They still make audio dramas, similar to what would've been on the radio back before TV. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy started as an audio drama, and they adapted all the books. Big Finish Productions makes a lot of audio plays based on British sci-fi series, typically original stories.
ottawafour
And I still can’t get my iphone to play a song for my alarm in 2025 :(
DrDred
Come to the Dark Side. Android does it easily.
CalculatorFunTime58008
You really really should be able to do that on Android, not sure about Apple
Fn0rd
Yeah… bro. Could you please stop lying and fanning this whole „ApPlE BaD“ bullshit?
RonFlorindo
The easiest way, if you have it, is to use Apple’s GarageBand app. It’s still not super simple, and I’d have to look up the steps again to do it, but it’s not the hardest thing to do.
ScarecrowSticks
Easiest way is to not use a fucking apple iShit.
Wankbiscuit
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BadAssFreakyGangbanga
Cause they’ve made it hard on purpose with their ecosystem. I mean it’s not super hard but it involves installing iTunes and adding the ringtone to iTunes and then syncing it to your device.
kirmokum
it's not hard. you just pick a song.
factcheckmate
Garage band can help you convert any track into whatever
drunkninjasmurf
Edit the alarm, go to sound, there should be an option to select a songtitle from the itunes library (not sure if the song can be in any other music app).
Hrafna55
Every single Android I have ever owned has been able to do this. This is what gets me with Apple. Forcing end users into a 'one size fits all' model.
IlluminaBlade
You don't own apple products.
Tolocamp
This just adds another reason to the countless others why not to buy overpriced, overhyped Apple products. Even if it is possible you probably have to have bought the song in i-tunes or whatever first. EFF that.
Fn0rd
Yeah but it isn’t tho, at least is Apple not actively selling all its users data to 3rd parties like every single fucking android using company.
ScarecrowSticks
Samsung does it in its default app. Two alarms I use the most are 2005 tripods from War of the Worlds, and Guardians targeting sound from BotW
Raeilgunne
FF7 victory fanfare
TheDreadPirateMontoya
Fi's theme from Skyward Sword to wake up, and the "Alert" triggered theme from MGS: Twin Snakes if I'm late for something.
Lun4ticH1gh
Konami Intro from MGS1 for me. Has been since 2012.
MonkeyFunkingFunker
Lun4ticH1gh
That's the guy right there.
MarkoClassicGaming
Guardian targeting sound would make me wake up with anxiety but it would work
thotterpop
Blord of the Wrings?
ScarecrowSticks
Breath of the Weath
thotterpop
Damn, here I was hoping for off-brand hero names like Randolph the greigh or Brodo Faggins... Damn, I should make a really good (bad) spoof movie
Torvucci
I once met Bilbo Saggins on Destiny 2.
kirmokum
what are you even talking about. go to alarm settings > edit alarm > sound selection > pick a song. this has been the case for YEARS.
dlshark
Apparently (and I had this problem too) if you are using a standard alarm you can set the sound to whatever you want, but if you are creating the alarm from the Sleep mode in heath settings, which adds an alarm to the Clock/Alarm app then you need to use one of their nature sounds for some reason
constantlycravingpuppykisses
If you use iTunes yes, but not if you have another music app?
Toqom
If you pick a song in iTunes, ya, you have to use it. You should be able to download an mp3 and just use it
Lefthandturnsignal
Apparently you need an app for that these days instead of it just being built in to the default. Bullshit I say.
Goldensands
Enshittification is the word
kirmokum
it is default. you just pick a song on your phone. you don't need an app.
BladeTurMoiL
Unless you need a specific soundbite for a text tone. Then yiu have to find a way to download outside of itunes
kirmokum
what?
BladeTurMoiL
Say i want a sound of a rupee being collected from zelda. Gonna have to find an alternate route to get that on a text tone. I dont even remember how i did that tbh.