Do you want your computer to sound like an 80s #scifi device with lots of bleeps and bloops and swoops?

[tomasino@tilde.zone]

Do you want your computer to sound like an 80s #scifi device with lots of bleeps and bloops and swoops? Are you running #linux?

GitHub - jamestomasino/beep: beep is inspired by nullsoft beep and attempts to recreate that magic in Ada

beep is inspired by nullsoft beep and attempts to recreate that magic in Ada - jamestomasino/beep

GitHub (github.com)

This is my recreation of an old program from nullsoft called 'beep' that does just that. The more stuff your computer is doing (cpu, mem, network, etc) the more it beeps and boops. Enjoy!

[snowblind2005@social.vivaldi.net]

@tomasino

Users are forgetting the mechanical noises that computers used to make. It was weird going from mechanical hard drives to SSD. SILENCE. Or the old school floppy disk noises. Or the dot matrix printers. At least you knew it was doing something. Now we sit there wondering if it's 'doing something'.

[tomasino@tilde.zone]

@SnowBlind2005 yes! exactly. i want feedback. let the vivaldi offices run amok with beeps

[ephzero@masto.snoozetown.org]

@tomasino Of course we do!

[monospace@floss.social]

@tomasino Beepboop++ Ada++ 🥰

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@SnowBlind2005 @tomasino i don't wonder, i make it do something. i was blown away when quieter fans started coming out. i had never heard such a quiet computer since Atari 8-bit, which required no fans.

[d2718@hachyderm.io]

@tomasino

Combined with my mechanical keyboard, this can help make me _truly_ insufferable at work!