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Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by alias_neo on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @05:23AM (#44949761)
Yeah, in that case, this sounds like a horrific idea.

I could hear a neighbours smoke alarm beeping periodically due to low battery the other night and went around to replace the battery for them the next day.

Also, I wasn't aware of the showdead setting (and had no idea about the answer that had been hidden), thanks for the tip.

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Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by SV_BubbleTime on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @10:42AM (#44952106)
chrip

There’s a growing discovery on YouTube and TikTok videos, that some people just live like this.

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Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by extraduder_ire on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:50PM (#44954893)
Your brain will completely tune the beeping sound out after a certain point, if it's a thing you notice at all. Similar reason to reversing truck beepers being replaced with ones that produce white (or other coloured) noise, so you don't lose your ability to hear where they are.

It's hard to believe until it happens to you.

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Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by mwigdahl on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:57PM (#44956202)
Still hasn't happened to me; beeping smoke alarms drive me crazy.
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