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.

  • BodilessGazeEnglish
    28·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • DeceptichumEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

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

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        5 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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      5 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.