Title text:
With a good battery, the device can easily last for 5 or 10 years, although the walls probably won’t.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3100/
Alternatives: Discord DM sound, Microsoft Teams notification sound
Skype or ICQ for extra mindfuck.
o-oh!
Facebook messenger notification. Everyone I know who uses it has a Pavlovian reaction to that.
I forget where I heard the idea from, but I remember someone coming up with a similar idea, just way more sinister. Basically you get a bunch of these really cheap, battery operated speakers like they mention in the comic, but you put sounds on them like creepy children laughing or ghostly noises that are juuuuust loud enough to hear. Set them to have very long timers at random intervals, and scatter them inside someone’s air vents
Back when they were cool ThinkGeek would sell the Annoy-o-tron, which just randomly made a loud beep.
They also had one that made creepy sounds. I had one set to a child laughing in the air vents in a creepy hallway with flickering lights in an old church building.
It was awesome.
Pretty sure I have one of these kicking around somewhere
what happened to thinkgeek?
They were bought and basically no longer exist. Hot Topic was going to buy them but then GameStop came in with a higher offer. For a while they launched ThinkGeek retail stores in shopping malls but eventually shut them all down and now they basically only exist as some tchotchkes in GameStop stores. Even the website just seems to redirect to the main GameStop page now, not their “store” within the GameStop webstore.
Enshittification.
A cricket sound, on a random interval going up to an hour between.
Edit: FOUND IT! https://lemmy.ca/post/41987749
Sounds like AnnoyingPCB
ThinkGeek used to have the annoyatron that would do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z1I1grocF0
I got so much mileage out of my annoy-o-tron and the second version that had a few “spooky” sounds added as options. The fact that it had a magnet on the back made it so easy to hide in an office because it could stick to the backs of so many things. The most successful were the backs of (or bottom of if on wheels) filing cabinets,
God I miss the OG ThinkGeek so much.
You joke, but I’ve actually done something very similar, back when Woot was worth something (before Amazon destro-- I mean, bought them).
this can be easily avoided by using linux.
How can Linux help you secure your walls?
You monster.
c/foundsatan
