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Printing sheets of ringtone notes for my friend to use in the dedicated ringtone editor on his 3510
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figuring out a way to encode ringtones and then emailing them as attachments to my phone number
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May 25, 2023 00:48
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downloading janky software to convert midi files to nokia ringtones and uploading them via a homemade serial cable
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May 25, 2023 05:10
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Beeftweeter posted:figuring out a way to encode ringtones and then emailing them as attachments to my phone number yesssss
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May 25, 2023 05:14
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denver the last dinosaur
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May 25, 2023 06:54
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creating an .m4r ringtone with itunes and literally never hearing it after because why the gently caress would my phone ever not be on silent
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May 25, 2023 07:09
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putting the happy tree friends song as my ringtone and being hideously embarassed when it went off.
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May 25, 2023 07:14
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using counterstrike sounds for text and ring tones item_pickup is a fun one for incoming texts
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May 25, 2023 08:11
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Just remembered this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqjoRMHyYQc
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May 25, 2023 10:50
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FMguru posted:ringtones being a $billion/year business ringtones being the assumed new model for the music industry
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May 25, 2023 12:08
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Carthag Tuek posted:creating an .m4r ringtone with itunes and literally never hearing it after because why the gently caress would my phone ever not be on silent i still do this, the intro to hypnotize is my current ringtone
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May 25, 2023 12:09
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Raluek posted:using counterstrike sounds for text and ring tones my text sound is the capcom logo noise
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May 25, 2023 12:10
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nudgenudgetilt posted:i'd be happy with using 50 different messaging protocols, just let me use one client for them, and let that one client integrate cleanly with poo poo like my system contacts yeah, that was a quality combo. my google voice number started its life as the precursor startup service on my n800 and was really handy. i still sorta wish I'd gone for the n900 just for the full phone experience Sagebrush posted:I bet I could blow some of my students minds by telling them it used to cost 25 cents per message but if you sent them after 9pm they were free. it sounds so ridiculous since its such nothing data in the margins of other traffic i had a friend with a 3gs that didn't get a text plan to save money, so he'd just tell people to give him a quarter if they wanted to text him. it was surprisingly effective on cutting down on random messages
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May 25, 2023 15:51
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Beeftweeter posted:figuring out a way to encode ringtones and then emailing them as attachments to my phone number i ruined one of my favorite albums (the Beck gameboy covers one) by using a couple tracks as ringtones and then dating someone with completely unmitigated bpd to this day i have a pavlovian "OH GOD WHAT NOW" response to this track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Hcf0IH1zU
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May 25, 2023 16:01
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there was also that thing where when you called someone. you would get 30 seconds of a pop song instead of the ringing. it was awful, music exces were concerned about this being some sort of avenue for piracy so it had to be the shortest and worst version of a song.
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May 25, 2023 17:22
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lol yeah ringbacks
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May 25, 2023 17:22
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yummycheese posted:there was also that thing where when you called someone. you would get 30 seconds of a pop song instead of the ringing. everyone on the 3.dk network has some folky version of "three is a magic number" not sure if you can change it
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May 25, 2023 18:00
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yummycheese posted:there was also that thing where when you called someone. you would get 30 seconds of a pop song instead of the ringing. that still exists. also because of pots compression they all sound like poo poo.
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May 25, 2023 18:02
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Hed posted:remember waiting until 9pm to call people because it was free same but dial up internet I got in so much trouble for running up a big bill playing team fortress classic
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May 25, 2023 18:07
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Beeftweeter posted:trillian was cool for a while but iirc they started to charge for it and most of the people i knew that used it were leet warez types that couldn't be bothered to crack a new version each time there was an update trillian also had the problem where the aol messenger support would randomly break whenever aol made some backend changes, leaving it non-functional until they updated it
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May 25, 2023 18:11
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I had the Sony j5e phone that let you record like 10s of audio to use as a ringtone or message sound and it owned. good looking phone as well and iirc it had a version of Gorillas.bas played using the jog dial (rip jog dials) Carthag Tuek posted:creating an .m4r ringtone with itunes and literally never hearing it after because why the gently caress would my phone ever not be on silent I don't even know what my ringtone is because my phone has never left silent
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May 25, 2023 18:23
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I had the Sony j5e phone that let you record like 10s of audio to use as a ringtone or message sound and it owned. ya i just discovered what mine was the other day lol i don't want your emergency alarms, that switch almost never gets moved from silent
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May 25, 2023 18:26
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mediaphage posted:ya i just discovered what mine was the other day lol only by accident anyway also, Breetai posted:The 200+ lines of printed code to create a printout of Alfred E Neumann included in their computer special was amazing. The fact that the code didn't work without corrections they included in a subsequent issue and that people wasted hours painstakingly typing it out only for it not to work was inspired. did a lazy svg conversion from the coordinates:  looks spooky on a dark background  blue on transparent
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May 25, 2023 18:33
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phone on perma silent is a controversial thing apparently. i mentioned to my friends the other day that my phone hasn't made a notification sound in two years. a couple nodded in agreement, and a couple seemed genuinely insulted by the idea. i don't owe you my attention!
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May 25, 2023 18:35
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It's a different life if you're a tech industry person with oncall shifts. We pay a price for those sweet figgies.
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May 25, 2023 18:40
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yeah and not just sounds, very very few things are allowed to send me a notification of any kind. basically messages and even then i have the only real group chat that gets traffic (me, my so, my bil and sil) muted so it's only a badge icon. most things aren't even allowed to show badge icons lol.
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May 25, 2023 18:40
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Jonny 290 posted:It's a different life if you're a tech industry person with oncall shifts. We pay a price for those sweet figgies. even if i were in such a job i'd only allow notifications to the minimum extent and disable that when the shift is over. i honestly don't get how people can handle everything constantly popping and buzzing from every app or dumb game. i'd go insane
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May 25, 2023 18:41
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when I’m in a quiet office I like the phone on silent so that it doesn’t startle me, but when I’m outside or in the lab I want the ringer on because I will likely not notice the vibration. so I’m constantly trying to switch back and forth and half the time in the wrong state. maybe I’m just careless and forgetful?
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May 25, 2023 18:45
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Jonny 290 posted:It's a different life if you're a tech industry person with oncall shifts. We pay a price for those sweet figgies. i made less when i was on call than i make now that my team is only to expect replies from 9am-6pm m-f.
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May 25, 2023 18:47
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mediaphage posted:even if i were in such a job i'd only allow notifications to the minimum extent and disable that when the shift is over. i honestly don't get how people can handle everything constantly popping and buzzing from every app or dumb game. i'd go insane thats what focus modes are for nudgenudgetilt posted:i made less when i was on call than i make now that my team is only to expect replies from 9am-6pm m-f. Congrats on your promotion i guess? I'm not sure what this post is trying to accomplish.
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May 25, 2023 18:49
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it's supposed to indicate that taking abuse isn't a prereq for figgies
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May 25, 2023 18:50
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thats an institutional problem, you should quit a company where being paged occasionally is 'abusive', not accept a title change so you can let others take the abuse.
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May 25, 2023 18:51
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Jonny 290 posted:It's a different life if you're a tech industry person with oncall shifts. We pay a price for those sweet figgies. a few years ago a coworker sent me a non-urgent email at like 4:30 pm on friday. i didn't reply to it immediately and then i left it over the weekend. monday morning she found me at 10am, in a break in the middle of my class, to get in my face about it. "hahahaha so i sent you that email on friday and you didn't reply. hahahahahahaha you really don't read your emails do you" "no, i saw it, i just don't reply to work emails on the weekend, as a work-life balance thing." this made her incredibly mad and she told me that her husband would be fired if he ignored work emails on the weekend, and that i should recognize just how much privilege i had to be able to do that. (she couldn't use herself as an example because neither of us would be fired for this at the university. lol) i said that i had made my choice and her husband (a tech worker probably making triple what i do) had made his, and she got even madder! boy Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 18:54 on May 25, 2023 |
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Jonny 290 posted:thats an institutional problem, you should quit a company where being paged occasionally is 'abusive', not accept a title change so you can let others take the abuse. errr. i didn't accept any title change. my title is literally "sr devops engineer". i just chose to work for a company that respects boundaries and can hire people to be on the clock when poo poo needs to be done.
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i have my phone set so that like five specific people can break through the silent mode if they actually call me. that's it. no notification sounds and my work email (yes, i have it on my personal phone, we know that you carry two) doesn't create screen popups either. has to be manually checked. ahhhhhh
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That's good!
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years ago before smart phones i set the dog bark from the beginning of sure shot by beastie boys as my ringtone and to this day it still fucks me up and makes me want to check my phone when i hear it
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polyester concept posted:years ago before smart phones i set the dog bark from the beginning of sure shot by beastie boys as my ringtone and to this day it still fucks me up and makes me want to check my phone when i hear it lol similarly in retrospect using songs or song snippets for things like alarm clocks was such a bad idea because it just made me hate the first few seconds of a bunch of songs.
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The_Franz posted:trillian also had the problem where the aol messenger support would randomly break whenever aol made some backend changes, leaving it non-functional until they updated it  randomly IMHO, an extremely good bit of history if you haven't read about this before (skip past the self congratulatory Microsoft history in the middle, it's not important) Chat Wars posted:
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lol wow that seems really irresponsible
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