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canjobear
on July 18, 2021
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An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan a...
Hearing the disk going used to be an auditory cue too, which is now gone thanks to solid state drives.
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Yes, I miss that calming crackle telling me that my PC didn't lock up and it's just chugging along. And the floppy boot sound. Objectively worse but still nostalgic.
FredPret
on July 19, 2021
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Like the demonic scream of a dot matrix printer
ianlevesque
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Occasionally with catastrophic results
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/239268-spotify-may-kil...
That said, I don’t miss the noise or slowness.
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