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With a good battery, the device can easily last for 5 or 10 years, although the walls probably won’t.
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Source: xkcd.com/3100/
You joke, but I’ve actually done something very similar, back when Woot was worth something (before Amazon destro-- I mean, bought them).
ThinkGeek used to have the annoyatron that would do that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z1I1grocF0
God I miss the OG ThinkGeek so much.
this can be easily avoided by using linux.
How can Linux help you secure your walls?
You monster.
c/foundsatan
It’s real!
The alert sound of a USB device connecting
Is this a Windows thing or something?
KDE Plasma has a USB connected and disconnected sound, I’m sure may other mainstream DEs do too.
On Windows, if you wanted to confirm the sound was from your computer, device manager usually flickers every time a new device is plugged in. New devices should also be logged in the Event Logs.
mr_account@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Back when they were cool ThinkGeek would sell the Annoy-o-tron, which just randomly made a loud beep.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They also had one that made creepy sounds. I had one set to a child laughing in the air vents in a creepy hallway with flickering lights in an old church building.
It was awesome.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
what happened to thinkgeek?
asqapro@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
I rented a room from my boss in college and he pulled this prank on me. First he hid it in the office and convinced all my coworkers to pretend not to hear it. It would switch between a creepy child’s laugh to a man groaning to other random noises. I was pretty sure it was a noisemaker, but I couldn’t get anyone else to admit that they could hear it so I couldn’t confirm.
Then he moved it into the air vents of his house that I was renting a room in. I started to think I was developing schizophrenia since my mom suffered from it and after I confided as much in my roommate / coworker, he finally came clean and showed me where our boss hid it.
All of this to say, it’s a very effective prank.
tal@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Fallout 76 has a location, Alpine Cabins, which is rigged up to have random screams and suchlike play, along with some other rigged things, like doors randomly opening and closing.
I remember the first time I ran across them and was like “what the hell?”
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
A cricket sound, on a random interval going up to an hour between.
Zikeji@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Sounds like AnnoyingPCB