cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31104421
xkcd #3100: Alert Sound
Title text:
With a good battery, the device can easily last for 5 or 10 years, although the walls probably won't.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3100/
I forget where I heard the idea from, but I remember someone coming up with a similar idea, just way more sinister. Basically you get a bunch of these really cheap, battery operated speakers like they mention in the comic, but you put sounds on them like creepy children laughing or ghostly noises that are juuuuust loud enough to hear. Set them to have very long timers at random intervals, and scatter them inside someone's air vents
Alternatives: Discord DM sound, Microsoft Teams notification sound
ThinkGeek used to have the annoyatron that would do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z1I1grocF0
You monster.
c/foundsatan
this can be easily avoided by using linux.
The alert sound of a USB device connecting
Is this a Windows thing or something?
EDIT: On Linux, if you somehow knew that some USB device had been connected, but didn't know what, I'd run sudo journalctl -krb
I believe that the kernel will always log a message when a new device is connected. Also, lsusb -t would show the layout of the USB tree and what devices are where on it.
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