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by Waterluvian 22 days ago
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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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.
Amiga floppy disk sounds are the deepest of sense memories.
And the sound looping with the filter cycling on and off when things went sideways. Good times...
Also the rotating sound of my 8.4 GB HD. Apparently noisy HDs are damaged HDs.