Curious what kind of alarm/ringtone people are rocking. Gentle and subtle tunes or straight up horrible loud alarms?

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    7 天前

    It’s funny how, back in the day, getting a new phone meant immediately going through all the ringtones to pick the one you liked best. Nowadays, most people - myself included - just leave it on the default. I honestly can’t remember the last time I changed a ringtone or message tone. I might have on my old Nokia N73, but not since. The alarm tone I do change, though - I don’t need to be screamed at first thing in the morning. Just the vibration alone is enough to wake me up.

    That said, I’ve actually been considering changing the ringtones for both of my SIM cards. Apparently everyone here has a Samsung, and nobody seems to change their ringtone - so every time I’m at the hardware store and a phone rings, you get like seven builders all pulling out their phones at once. Since I don’t particularly enjoy talking on the phone, every time I hear my ringtone - even if it’s from someone else’s phone - it gives me this little PTSD flash.

  • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 天前

    I was using the Dragonzord “flute” for a while but switched to the siren from Silent Hill. My partner hates both but if I need a wake-up alarm I need it to flood my body with panic adrenaline.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      6 天前

      My parents looked for like six months to find me a Dragon Dagger. One day I was pulled out of school early and I thought I was in trouble. My mum brought me outside to her car, stood at the rear for a moment, then unlocked the trunk. I could hear harps playing and angels singing as it slowly revealed a new-in-lunch Dragon Dagger. It played three songs and had a slashing sound. I was the happiest girl in the world.

      • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 天前

        I didn’t use its proper name because I didn’t think people would know what I meant but I see now I was foolish.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          6 天前

          I was OBSESSED. That hunk was my favorite Power Ranger. My mum made me a Green Ranger costume complete with an EXTREMELY well-made chest shield gold thing for Halloween even before I got my Dragon Dagger. I hear he was a dick on set (the American one) so that makes me sad. But alas.

          I still have my Dragon Dagger.

          • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 天前

            My uncle (very near my age) also had a Green Ranger costume, I think there was a lot of gold lame involved. We generally weren’t allowed toy weapons though so I’m envious of yours.

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              6 天前

              The edges were all rubber! Child me gnawed the tip of it off, so it’s certainly not pristine anymore.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    2·
    6 天前

    My alarm is just the default android one, but my text tone is the windows XP fatal error sound.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    2·
    7 天前

    Birdsong. Sometimes I genuinely can’t tell if it’s real birds or I snoozed my alarm - this morning it was real birds.

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    6 天前

    I use the great fairy fountain from old school Zelda (ocarina of time specifically) as my wake up alarm, as it’s very peaceful to wake to. But still nerdy. It went with Navi going “hey listen!” Every time I got a text ;)

    Mostly I use my watch alarm tho, which is vibration that starts gentle and gets stronger, and that’s plenty.

    If I get shocked awake I have a panic attack. I try to avoid that.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 天前

    I used to have Buddha Bar - Solitude as my alarm, but after a month or so I found myself associating it with waking up and it lost its calming effect on my morning. I’ve since resorted back to whatever my phone defaults to for minimum damage to sounds I like.

  • Soku@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 天前

    My alarm cannot be anything with a real melody or I will hum it for hours on. I use some default tune what’s more of a trill, does the job. My text/email alert used to be popping the bottle cap sound, my current phone has some brrp noise close enough to a fart to make me giggle - I’m old but not mature.

    As for ring tones, I used to purchase some for pocket change from the last page of the tv guide. All fun and games until all the old relatives started dropping like flies. It just doesn’t feel right to get an invitation to another funeral preceded by the Scissors Sisters ‘I don’t feel like dancing’ or Eamon’s ‘fuck you’. For a long time my ring tone was the old school land line ringing. From the moment I was able to choose the ring tone from my playlist it has been ‘Heavy Cross’ by Gossip. I feel it’s suitable for all occurrences while being only mine.