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i dont know about you guys but i kinda like the clicking noise from my keyboard, and like heels and stuff its pretty epic
The harddrive staying silent even though you were mashing keys like crazy was a sure way to tell that your PC had given up on life.
Yeah hitting "save file" and not actually hearing the sound of the file being written to disk was enough to give you a chill
For me it was installing games. The installer was still active, but the drive stayed silent? The installer was lying.
Not nearly as bad as hearing "click...click....click" from the HDD. The PTSD is still strong...
Thanks I can hear this and I hate it.
At least you knew; now when an SSD fails it just…. dies.
Literally shuddering. RIP The epic Doom megawad I was working on for two years 😥
The fans revving for 20 seconds and the program opening it's loading screen: "Nice".
The fans revving for 5 seconds and the program is sitting at 0% CPU after 1 full minute: "fuck this bullshit." But you hold onto hope and wait another 5 minutes, and as your confirming to restart the PC the program starts loading, and you have to watch it load entirely before it's killed by the restart, and the restart takes even longer because the program actually opened.
Or,
You browser is loading homestarrunner.com and the loading bar stops at 10% like it should for 5 minutes, but the 5 minutes passes by, and you click the clock on the task bar only to see your mouse turn into an hourglass.
Still does that on my machine... I can hear some high hissing sounds when moving the cursor on my ThinkPad (running Manjaro)
i hear that too when ive got vr running on linux, isnt that coil whine? or are you referring to something else?
In the olden days, when a computer used its voice to tell you it was working, we had the hard drive activity indicator. Now that that information would actually be useful, manufacturers cheap out on a fucking light.
Assholes.
hey i have one on my ps3 🤭 and i just listen to know if my only hard drive is working, because its louder than the whole pc lol
Tbf my RGB do act as an emergency warning system and flash all red if the system is overheating
Old computers seem so much more functional. Like they are real equipment. Modern stuff, especially when running windows, just feels like a blown up iPad. Ads everywhere, fun icons to click on and always pretending that everything is working the way it's supposed to
I think Apple is mostly to blame. Microsoft is trying to be more like Apple with windows 11 layout and they tried the whole tablet and pc compatibility thing with windows 8. If Apple wasn't so profitable I think windows might have tried to find their own style, but Apple does incredibly well with their marketing and people flock to Mac and iOS. Of course windows is rlstill the most commonly used OS, but Apple is slowly making their way to catching up. The only thing truly holding Apple back is their high price to make their product seem higher quality than it really is.
I think Apple is mostly to blame. Microsoft is trying to be more like Apple
When they are not stealing features from KDE.
Very true. Felt weird when I saw some features on school PCs which were on KDE for years...
this is why i use linux, and free open source software. most of the time it doesnt have random bullshit and just works, because the devs are actually passionate about their work and dont want to make a profit
Almost like they WANT to make software instead of money.
Are those ads everywhere in a room with us right now?
Seriously though, I haven't seen a single ad ever since activating an adblocker when I first used a computer. And macOS has just as many ads on websites when not using an adblocker.
I too don't see ads anymore since switching to Debian (GNU/Linux) but Windows is FULL of ads for Xbox, candy crush and Microsoft's office. I've heard that iPhones and apples devices in general come preinstalled with an apple store app for specifically purchasing walled garden devices... I would say that counts as ads.
Well they were built like a fucking brick. I respect it.
Somebody should tell him decibels go into the negative numbers
In this case, if it's dBSPL they don't*. When measuring dBs in digital they are negative because 0dB is the loudest value the signal can take. In summary, dBs aren't made equal and they're a confusing unit.
*0dBSPL is the auditory threshold, so you can't hear negative dBSPL but it is a valid measure.
dB are a relative unit, and as a relative unit they are all equal (keeping in mind subtleties of amplitude vs. power). They can be used as an absolute unit only when referenced to some value (dBm, dBV...).
Keeping these two things top of mind helps me, at any rate.
Logarithmic scales ftw!
Plus, having -∞ as the lowest on a volume knob is just badass.
For me, I find barely perceptible sounds vastly more annoying than easily noticeable ones. Something about being just out of comfortable listening reach is extremely unnerving to me. So with that in mind, yeah, I often find a lot of modern "silent" tech to be way more annoying than their much louder earlier cousins. 🤷♂️
Just crank your fans to 100% haha
Had to deal with it then because it was the only option, and until my late teens the only pc in the house was in the home office and it was never just left running.
Now that near silent machines are easy to achieve though, and my pc is right by my bed and on nearly 24/7, I see no need to suffer like I used to (it's also at least partly a sensory processing disorder thing, because I hear components most people never notice).
I miss loud harddrive sounds. Sometimes you thought the pc crashed, and suddenly it would rev up and you'd go:"heck yeah, tubular."
Nothing's keeping you from throwing a complete of old disks in your tower and through the power of zfs making an awesome raid for backups
you made me nostalgic for the floppy tray check sound from my old PC ;;
Deeeeeeng de dunk!
I still listen to the noises. The cpu makes a unique whine when I highlight text.
Does it have the spacebar heating feature too?
Lol, this isn't part of my workflow! I just happened to notice it one day and was intrigued.
I always like the soft clicks it made when communicating on the internet, after the screaming noise, when it settled down. Soft hum of the computer and little clicks as I read a forum post.
I remember the school computer lab. They bought all the computers in 2002 and didn't replace them until 2011. It was like stepping into a wind tunnel the fans were all so loud
I mean, I'm still running basically the same PC I built in '14 so I can't say shit lol
I need my keys to sound like I'm using a typewriter, the pc is not a problem
Get a unicomp model M. They are the continued production of the IBM model M that came with their PS/2 personal computers. They use the same machinery that made the originals thus the modern ones are still "original", which is a fun fact.
But yes, very clacky and noisy. Also very well made and durable for the price.
Gives me flashbacks to going online at night in the 90s hoping that the noise of the modem connecting wouldn't wake my parents 😄
The joys of having a 75% deaf mother, and a father that couldn't find work in the same state that we lived in. I didn't have to worry about noise, I did have to worry about light, but that's much easier to deal with.
Hehe this made me chuckle. Made me remeber the dread of old after an update or fucking with the registry and rebooting waiting for the sounds of the startup knowing all is well. Silence was a death blow!
Kids these days get worried about computer noises???
I slept for years with my Linux desktop/server next to my bed, running 24/7, with a hard disk drive and cheap-end cpu/case fans. The only time I was bothered when the original case fan went bonkers and started making hell of a racket.
(I don't use that thing any more, because it got way too obsolete, but I still have a NAS box with a fan and hard drive and it's not bothering me at all.)
I'm said "kid", and for me, no. I sometimes fall asleep with mine on no problem. the problem is more so the electricity waste, and the stupid rgb ram I can't turn off even in sleep mode