[teekert]

So true. Although I often prefer silence, the sounds my devices make can be really nice. For example I open my Nextcloud app on my phone and the drives in my server start rattling. I find it soothing.

Reminds me of Picard lecturing a young engineer on how in the old days they “were trained to detect some warp core misalignment of .2 micron” (or something).

I understand that some astronomers listen to radio telescope outputs and my car mechanic can often hear what’s wrong in a heartbeat.

[stavros]

Back when HDDs were noisy, I could tell when my computer was stressed, or about to crash, or hung, etc just from the drive noise.

Similarly now with when my 3D printer is leveling, or about to finish the print, or which part it's printing.