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Add a dialup modem and a dot matrix printer and you have a symphony.

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You’re gonna absolutely love this

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCximsD7EJ38jzCNgfP_YTmA

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This is so awesome! Thanks for sharing

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My pleasure

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For the extra lazy here’s the top two songs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE Imperial March

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ph5OW9p-GHM Bohemian Rhapsody

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://m.piped.video/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE

https://m.piped.video/watch?v=ph5OW9p-GHM

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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2 points

I didn’t open the link, but Flopotron?

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The two emergency stop buttons had me laughing hard.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://m.piped.video/channel/UCximsD7EJ38jzCNgfP_YTmA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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13 points

I could listen to that as white noise and drift off to sleep any day.

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Reeeeeee bbeeroorp grreREEEEE

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Don’t get any… big ideas… they’re not… gonna happen.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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42 points

Internet used to be so slow that you had a tv next to the computer so you could keep yourself entertained until the funny picture loaded.

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I remember downloading an mp3 took about as much time as listening to it.

KazAa…

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Youngin. I remember downloading a song took an hour. Want to download an album? Better clear out your weekend and hope no one else needed the phone

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I think my first modem was a 14400. It was so slow, but somehow I was so patient. If I was getting 3KB a second, I was happy.

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Downloadlng kinky pictures, you’d better have a kink for hairstyles or eyebrows, because it’ll be a while before anything else displays.

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Bitmaps loaded from the bottom up! Tomorrow.

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You could literally hear the bytes passing through your modem if you wanted.

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What’d you use? I’m moving into a new place and my bedroom shares a wall with my roommates and I’m curious about mute the, uh, fan noises.

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If your fan noises 😉 are really loud you should install a wall made of acoustic drywall in front of that shared wall and fill the gap with acoustic foam. Acoustic foam alone won’t help with loud noise. Since that mostly reduces the reflection of sound. Sound can still pass trough the foam and then trough the wall.

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The acoustic dry wall is a good shout, but I don’t think my boyfriend would take too kindly to me shrinking our room and the shared wall has closets for both bedrooms. I’m hoping those closets will do something to help, and the foam wall paneling is a good shout, but I’m trying to think of ways to do it in a way that’ll please his aesthetic desires. He doesn’t want it to look like a “streamer’s bedroom”. I joke with him and say change one letter and it’s more accurate, so maybe he’ll considered some colored ones mounted at angles to create a more visually appealing surface. That, or try to mount a rug on the wall 😅

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That’s called a data center. If you get to the point that you need sound protection it is no longer a homelab, it is a home data center.

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Jesus! What are you running that makes that much noise? I have two HP DL360p gen8’s (older 1u units with LOUD fans when they get going) and a custom built gaming server in a rack at the end of my bed. Together they’re sometimes a bit annoyingly loud when they’re hard at work, but with the door closed you can barely hear them. I can’t imagine a single server so loud that neighbors could hear it from a basement. You got a supercomputer in there or something?

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Ahhhh. Okay, I thought you meant a single unit was creating all that noise.

We store several hundred terabyte of data for “personal” (i won’t go into the contents as its not for public, nothing illigal either) usage.

Got it - it’s all Linux ISOs.

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older 1u units with LOUD fans when they get going)

1U servers tend to have loud fans regardless of age. Small fans that spin very quickly (to get decent airflow) will do that. They’re also designed for use in data centers where noise is less of a concern.

Sometimes you can replace server fans with Noctua fans, but the small Noctua fans generally have less airflow than the stock ones (usually made by Delta) so you’d have to check they’d be sufficient for your use case.

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Oh, I know it. Thankfully the noise is only bad during initial boot (which seldom happens) or if they’re really kicked into high gear.

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Related LGR video on the HDD Clicker that adds mechanical hard disk sounds to SSDs.

https://youtu.be/IZKttBr2Y8g?si=fY8euvAaDpj8ON4r

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/IZKttBr2Y8g?si=fY8euvAaDpj8ON4r

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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That was a fun video and you introduced me to a new youtube channel! Thanks 😁

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No worries. The 8-Bit Guy, Michael MJD, Action Retro, and Cathode Ray Dude are all YouTubers in a similar vein in my opinion that I would recommend.

That’s also LGR’s second channel by the way. His main channel is LGR.

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Macintosh Performa models had downright adorable little bwip… bwip… bwip noises.

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Hearing all the noises in the right sequence was how you knew everything was working on startup

I bet I could close my eyes and still tell you what each of those sounds meant and in what order from my family’s first computer (a 386!) if you played a recording of it today

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Sensible chuckle.jpg

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