Post AwGa7oDL6j9LOoZzPs by guinnessduck@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AwG6x3eqS0k9RNxyRE by stux@mstdn.social
2025-07-18T13:17:50Z
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“If it still makes some sound, it means it didn't crash”
(DIR) Post #AwG78y0JIUQ7NfgXM8 by collectifission@greennuclear.online
2025-07-18T13:19:56Z
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@stux The things I accepted from Windows 98 and XP...
(DIR) Post #AwG7oQIF1VoQzVq96u by ssamulczyk@mstdn.social
2025-07-18T13:27:28Z
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@stux Oh no… It actually went much deeper. I had an Amiga 600 and it wasn’t just „making sound”. You could tell the game is loading OK by the sound made by the floppy disk drive…😅
(DIR) Post #AwG8HhnX1KHbg9RGMq by guigsy@mstdn.social
2025-07-18T13:32:45Z
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@stux I couldn't hear the drives... above my Delta Screamer fan on my half kilo of copper cored, lapped Alpha heatsink, pushing my processor to a 50% overclock.And it was louder in the summer because I had to run with the side off to improve airflow.
(DIR) Post #AwG8OaAdmDtE3BWjWy by rozodru@social.vivaldi.net
2025-07-18T13:33:58Z
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@stux I still miss the sound of a modem connecting. you could always tell if your modem was going to connect or not and each modem on every persons computer was always unique with the tones. It was almost comforting in a way. Honestly...I really miss old computer noises. Someone should make a case or something that mimics those sounds similar to how EVs mimic car engine noises.
(DIR) Post #AwGA0MYcwEgomwKEka by Eleutheria2@poa.st
2025-07-18T13:52:06.255363Z
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@stux Don't forget hitting the "no magnet" button built into the display settings.
(DIR) Post #AwGJE0sbERgLCIFdSq by carbontwelve@notacult.social
2025-07-18T15:35:18Z
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@stux I’m still upset that most computers now come without a drive activity light. Knowing if the machine had locked up was far easier when you could see it blinking at you.
(DIR) Post #AwGVXpVIR4k59oZDRQ by GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T17:53:23Z
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@stux I still say “it’s thinking” when it takes a while for a computer to do something. doesn’t matter if I’m with someone else, it’s just force of habit at this point.
(DIR) Post #AwGZE5EGevzXxBRRgm by TimWardCam@c.im
2025-07-18T18:34:37Z
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@stux Yeah, in the course of my career I have at various times been able to tell what computers are doing (eg how far through a task they are, when I will next have to pay attention to them) by listening to them.For a long time the pattern of clicks from the floppy or hard drive would do. In even earlier days we were told that the technique was "connect a loudspeaker to the A17 line" but I never did that myself.
(DIR) Post #AwGZGtDDnIXhYKI4DQ by TheMNWolf@furry.engineer
2025-07-18T18:35:07Z
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@stux I sometimes miss the sounds of the Apple ][ 5 1/4-in jackhammer.
(DIR) Post #AwGZbSNwjPhiQo78Rk by StumpyTheMutt@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-18T18:38:47Z
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@stux This old fossil remembers the sound a Disk ][ made as it wound the head back to track 0
(DIR) Post #AwGa7oDL6j9LOoZzPs by guinnessduck@mstdn.social
2025-07-18T18:44:42Z
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@stux that’s the downside of my fanless laptop with no moving parts. There are times I have no way of quickly telling if it’s doing anything. Whereas my old machine… you knew from three blocks away when I was compiling something.
(DIR) Post #AwGcmtnNSeR0UT9n3w by P00k4@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T19:12:53Z
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@stux @senda y yo pensando que la sordera era resultado de la edad.
(DIR) Post #AwGgpgv8Baa3FFN2OG by Eat_Your_Paisleys@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T19:59:47Z
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@stux one of the reasons I own an M1 MBA is the complete lack of a fan, my XPS 13 is pretty quiet but not silent
(DIR) Post #AwGm82fQZQO1fsaxJQ by srtcd424@mas.to
2025-07-18T20:59:10Z
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@stux I spent a fair bit of time in my early career working in the same room as various "servers." There was something to be said for being able to tell what they were doing by the sound different disk access patterns made :)
(DIR) Post #AwGsnWxZRnMVDuFQlE by Tedgarrison3@mstdn.social
2025-07-18T22:13:56Z
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@stux As long as the sound keeps changing. If it got stuck on the exact same noise, that wasn't a good thing either.. But as long as it wasn't silent, you might still just leave it for the night..
(DIR) Post #AwHeEm7hsDo9usTwYa by draeath@infosec.exchange
2025-07-19T01:46:17Z
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@stux (audio buffer begins looping)
(DIR) Post #AwHsvWRFSoY555trSi by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-07-19T07:58:13.852564Z
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@stux Also the funniest is the gamer™ ones don't even have blinkenlichts, they're missing on cool!
(DIR) Post #AwHsvXjidcux6fY7tI by a1ba@suya.place
2025-07-19T07:59:29.768435Z
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@lanodan @stux they don't even connect the pcspkr usually
(DIR) Post #AwHsvYNmEgxb6uI7KS by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-07-19T08:02:37.299381Z
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@a1ba @stux Yeah, reminds me of some annoying laptops where it's thrown in the sound card…
(DIR) Post #AwHsvZR0KB8UNCoCzw by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-07-19T08:04:30.394393Z
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@a1ba @stux And now most don't even have beep-boops anymore, making it a pain to debug POST issues… (and of course no serial/UART port either)
(DIR) Post #AwHsva8FjNjMXL2kPQ by phnt@fluffytail.org
2025-07-19T08:55:34.262551Z
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@lanodan @stux @a1ba Recently built a new PC in an old case with non-windowed side panels. I find the lack of 7-segment displays for debug POST info very infuriating. The 4 LEDs MSI boards aren't usually enough. No header for a PC speaker on the motherboard either.
(DIR) Post #AzDjyuW80AOZSMjHQu by jgg@qoto.org
2025-07-18T16:57:57Z
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@stux Umm.So that's why some people hates electric cars.