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Re:The Web MiniDisc App (2020) by grishka on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:52AM (#26751280)
There is something soothing about these noises. They reassure you that the device is doing something. I've never seen a MiniDisc player in person, but I remember PSP with an optical drive that made similar noise while your game loaded.
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Re:The Web MiniDisc App (2020) by bombcar on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:09PM (#26753895)
Hard drive seeks used to be the way I'd tell if the Windows 98 SE machines were doing something or just hung - if you didn't hear the hard drive seeking it was probably time to reboot.
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Re:The Web MiniDisc App (2020) by 1-6 on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:40AM (#26751953)
The Windows Task Manager does that for me. I like staring at graphs to reassure me the computer has not stopped.
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