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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm okay with appliance making cute little dings or buzzes but if they chime out a full song it creeps me right out. I'm gonna get the clothes out of the wash you don't have to scream "Mary had a Little Lamb" at me.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Fun fact: back in the 90s, some motherboards would start playing "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" through the internal speaker if the CPU fan was failing. So if you started hearing that, that meant your computer was about to fry itself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I miss those lil internal speakers, games sounded so fun when made up of variations of a high pitched beep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They're still there.

My mom gets a scam page on her browser like once a week. It jams full screen and she cant remember F10 or winkey to get it to where she can kill it (#retirees). So it'll play "you have a virus. Call the number on the screen" through her internal speaker and USB headphones looping the same minute-long speech for days until she calls me to fix it.

I can only imagine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

HAL 9000 vibes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So that's why my Furby started screaming Feliz Navidad before its battery exploded

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Do you have any idea how weird that was the first time someone brought one of those in? We absolutely refused to believe him - we were an ISP that only did a little PC work - until we had it on the bench and it really was doing it.