Agree. But this also reminds me fondly of the days where the sounds of my computer so intimately indicated what’s going on.

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dannyw a day ago | parent | next [-]

I really love the coil whine of my GPU (a 5090 FE) when it’s doing LLM stuff. I can hear the different stages, like prefill and decode, and the sounds actually make me reminisce about dial up.

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mwcz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Amiga floppy disk sounds are the deepest of sense memories.

	▲	aitchnyu 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Also the rotating sound of my 8.4 GB HD. Apparently noisy HDs are damaged HDs.
	▲	Kimitri a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And the sound looping with the filter cycling on and off when things went sideways. Good times...