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An electric lighter does this to my mouse when I zap specific objects with it, such as a screwdriver. I tried distances up to about 1.5 meters away from the mou
by lucb1e 4y ago
An electric lighter does this to my mouse when I zap specific objects with it, such as a screwdriver. I tried distances up to about 1.5 meters away from the mouse. The only reason I initially noticed is because I saw the red light turn off that was coming faintly through the holes I drilled in the top to let a heating element that I had built in heat my hand better. (Spoiler: the holes didn't do anything, but I did notice that 5W below an exposed extremity go a long way when given 30+ minutes!)
I also enjoyed the two random occasions where I shot lightning from my hands through the plastic cover of a keyboard and got the electronics into some error state, requiring it to be replugged before it would work again. It was a... power...ful feeling.
This and screaming routers are some of my favorite oddities. An old cisco router that was sitting next to my desk would occasionally "scream" at me. I couldn't describe it any other way, though it was rather faint and you wouldn't hear it with music on. It took some time for ~15-year-old me to figure out that it happened with high rates of small network packets. Could be reproduced with some ping command (I would say with sudo and either a low -i or even -f, but I was a Windows user back then and forgot the relevant flags, or maybe I used hping3.)
- tambourine_man 4y agoYou have to scream back at them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
- lucb1e 4y agomentally calls hard drive in datacenter video - clicks - did not disappoint :) I tried this but could not reproduce it by the way.
- bentcorner 4y ago> It took some time for ~15-year-old me to figure out that it happened with high rates of small network packets I honestly think that there's a hidden potential with instrumenting programs with different noises, and being able to listen to them could give you a broad understanding of program behavior without needing to profile or watch logs.
- lucb1e 4y agoI always took out my earphones or turned down/off speakers while doing computer modifications. I want to hear things like that fans are spinning, how busy the hard drive is if the screen is not yet working... in a computer repair shop I noticed others didn't do the same and that's when I realized that I was subconsciously doing this in the first place. Nowadays I do less of that messing around, but also there's SSDs and quiet laptops. Either way, yeah I totally get you. Relevant / you might enjoy: ping -a
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoI used to write code for a certain machine that ran long, complex sets of instructions. We could tell what sequence it was running by listening to the "tune" the motors played as it ran. Was also easy to tell when there was a bug or some other problem: the sound would be "off" and sure enough, a few seconds later there'd be an error message on the display.