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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Back when optical disks were more common mediums for video games

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[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's not as common now, but lots of desktop computers used to have little piezoelectric speakers that would beep to indicate error codes or catastrophic failure.

They're called speakers but they're only good for buzzing at different frequencies instead of accurately replicating source audio. Interestingly, the more advanced ones can be used quite effectively to make ultrasound signals.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well I knew about that, but how does it mess with people any better than the default audio sink?

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

Only because the average user would have no clue how to find and disconnect the piezo speaker, assuming they even know about it. And, of course, it's a lot more distracting than sound coming though someone headphones or whatnot.