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On 2/16/26 07:11, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

...
I went from Android to iPhone for one phone. It was pretty solid,
but I found the Apple silo annoying; e.g. installing a custom ringtone
was something I couldn't accomplish. On Android? Just copy an MP3
or MP4 to the correct directory.

There are tasks which certainly are easier when one has the access (& knowledge) to do things like a file transfer into a specific directory.

Thus said, once one knows that a particular feature is available, its
then usually just a case of Googling for the solution.

In iOS's case, the file apparently needs to be .m4r format.

A couple of my notifications sounds are clips from a Firesign
Theatre album. "<honk>Barney!" "It's throbbing!"

My main ringtone is a long (20 sec) clip from the Theme from Shaft,
performed by Maynard Ferguson.

There's this, plus a couple others on my domain at /usenet/ringtones/
including shorter clips (~10sec) from Kashmir and Black Dog.


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-hh wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):

On 2/16/26 07:11, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

...
I went from Android to iPhone for one phone. It was pretty solid,
but I found the Apple silo annoying; e.g. installing a custom ringtone
was something I couldn't accomplish. On Android? Just copy an MP3
or MP4 to the correct directory.

There are tasks which certainly are easier when one has the access (& knowledge) to do things like a file transfer into a specific directory.

Thus said, once one knows that a particular feature is available, its
then usually just a case of Googling for the solution.

In iOS's case, the file apparently needs to be .m4r format.

I was wrong about mp4, it is m4r. However, on this Galaxy phone
mp3 works as well.

A couple of my notifications sounds are clips from a Firesign
Theatre album. "<honk>Barney!" "It's throbbing!"

My main ringtone is a long (20 sec) clip from the Theme from Shaft, performed by Maynard Ferguson.

There's this, plus a couple others on my domain at /usenet/ringtones/ including shorter clips (~10sec) from Kashmir and Black Dog.

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On 2/16/2026 7:11 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

DFS wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):

On 2/11/2026 11:18 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

An Android device is a real computer, unlike the alternatives that
Apple and Microsoft have tried to offer:

<https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-bash-scripts-how-to-learn-on-android-device/>

The Larry Duh stupidity never ends.

I suspect he is simply trolling. They're all computers, with some
differences in feature set.

He probably spews more lies and stupidity about Windows than even Feeb
does... which is saying something.

I went from Android to iPhone for one phone. It was pretty solid,
but I found the Apple silo annoying; e.g. installing a custom ringtone
was something I couldn't accomplish.

I use an iPhone Xr (iOS 18.7.4).

Changing the default ringtone is just:
Settings | Sounds & Haptics | Ringtone, and choosing from a list of some
60+ tones. Many of which are just annoying.

From what I read online, using a custom song for your ringtone involves GarageBand or other contortions.

On Android? Just copy an MP3 or MP4 to the correct directory.

That's part of why Android Linux was known as the most insecure
operating system in the world for a while.

https://thenextweb.com/news/a-single-song-could-be-used-to-exploit-more-than-a-billion-android-phones

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DFS wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

On 2/16/2026 7:11 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

<snip>

I went from Android to iPhone for one phone. It was pretty solid,
but I found the Apple silo annoying; e.g. installing a custom ringtone
was something I couldn't accomplish.

I use an iPhone Xr (iOS 18.7.4).

Changing the default ringtone is just:
Settings | Sounds & Haptics | Ringtone, and choosing from a list of some
60+ tones. Many of which are just annoying.

From what I read online, using a custom song for your ringtone involves GarageBand or other contortions.

Yeah, I looked at that and decided to leave well-enough alone.

On Android? Just copy an MP3 or MP4 to the correct directory.

That's part of why Android Linux was known as the most insecure
operating system in the world for a while.

https://thenextweb.com/news/a-single-song-could-be-used-to-exploit-more-than-a-billion-android-phones

Meh. "Could be used". More than 10 years ago,

I've had no issues.

<wink wink nudge nudge say no more>
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:12:15 -0500, DFS wrote:

On 2/16/2026 7:11 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

DFS wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):

On 2/11/2026 11:18 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

An Android device is a real computer, unlike the alternatives that
Apple and Microsoft have tried to offer:

<https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-bash-scripts-how-to-learn-on- android-device/>

The Larry Duh stupidity never ends.

I suspect he is simply trolling. They're all computers, with some
differences in feature set.

He probably spews more lies and stupidity about Windows than even Feeb does... which is saying something.

I went from Android to iPhone for one phone. It was pretty solid,
but I found the Apple silo annoying; e.g. installing a custom ringtone
was something I couldn't accomplish.

I use an iPhone Xr (iOS 18.7.4).

Changing the default ringtone is just:
Settings | Sounds & Haptics | Ringtone, and choosing from a list of some
60+ tones. Many of which are just annoying.

From what I read online, using a custom song for your ringtone involves GarageBand or other contortions.

Unlike in Android, you're down to buying ringtones on iOS if you want something original. On the alternative, just load an MP3 of your choice,
use any of a variety of programs on the platform to select a chunk of the
song to use as a ringtone and you're done. This is something that is
_much_ better there.

On Android? Just copy an MP3 or MP4 to the correct directory.

That's part of why Android Linux was known as the most insecure
operating system in the world for a while.

https://thenextweb.com/news/a-single-song-could-be-used-to-exploit-more-

than-a-billion-android-phones

And a platform where Google joyously spies on you across the board and
gives you little in the way of updates for as long as you own it. They've apparently improved it since, but I wouldn't bother finding out anymore.
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On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union, totally unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a Western-style
supermarket for the first time and being totally baffled by the need
for so much choice. rCLWouldnrCOt it be more efficient to just have one of each product?rCY you say. And we all know the answer to that, donrCOt we?

I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site and
had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know your devices are
not being infected with subtle but nefarious malware?
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On 18/02/2026 03:22, Tom Elam wrote:

On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union, totally
unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a Western-style
supermarket for the first time and being totally baffled by the need
for so much choice. rCLWouldnrCOt it be more efficient to just have one of >> each product?rCY you say. And we all know the answer to that, donrCOt we?

I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site and
had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know your devices are
not being infected with subtle but nefarious malware?

EXCELLENT question!

Did you simply destroy the hard drive or, like me, destroy the whole
computer on advice from our High-Tech Crime Unit?

They were concerned about the firmware being infected!

ACW group added!
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On 2/17/2026 10:22 PM, Tom Elam wrote:

I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site and
had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know your devices are
not being infected with subtle but nefarious malware?

So your XP malware infection was obvious and nefarious?
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At Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:22:55 -0500, Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union,
totally unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a
Western-style supermarket for the first time and being totally
baffled by the need for so much choice. rCLWouldnrCOt it be more
efficient to just have one of each product?rCY you say. And we all
know the answer to that, donrCOt we?

I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site
and had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with
malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know
your devices are not being infected with subtle but nefarious
malware?

"Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
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vallor wrote:

At Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:22:55 -0500, Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union,
totally unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a
Western-style supermarket for the first time and being totally
baffled by the need for so much choice. rCLWouldnrCOt it be more
efficient to just have one of each product?rCY you say. And we all
know the answer to that, donrCOt we?

I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site
and had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with
malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know
your devices are not being infected with subtle but nefarious
malware?

"Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."

yes it does
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