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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by Dylan16807 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @08:21PM (#18126771)
The task at hand is waiting. People love to be distracted from waiting without any evidence of progress. Isn't that why they put speakers into so many dial-up modems?
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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by ansible on Friday October 12, 2018 @07:37PM (#18205453)
Speaking as a user of dial up modems in the past, no.

The speaker was vital to inform the user as to what was happening. If the phone line was in user, if there was a dialing problem, if you called the wrong number, etc. And it also gave you an indication of the connection speed and line quality.

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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by FullyFunctional on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:05PM (#18126923)
I'd assume they the speaker was for diagnosis, eg. if you could hear an "Ahoy?" then you should probably start over.
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