982
Cupholder.exe (lemmy.zip)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 4 months ago

Hm. Well if the motherboard can play a song it can blast " Error" during startup to be infinitely more helpful.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 22 points 4 months ago

I don't think those speakers are capable of voice. They can handle a few different beep tones and that's about it. The song was not like listening to Spotify, it was played using beep tones.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I had an Athlon motherboard with voice POST messages… one night I woke up to it saying “your CPU has a problem!” over and over and was freaked out until I was completely awake and figure out what was wrong.

It wasn’t high quality coming through the piezo speaker, but it was good enough.

[-] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I definitely remember short 2 or 3 second clips of relatively high quality music being played through our family's IBM XT's motherboard speaker at one point using a demo we got from a BBS or the Public Domain Software site in the mid-80s. It wasn't easy but some madman made a proof-of-concept that did it and it was incredible at the time.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

"my shits fucked yo"

[-] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Would any of your tech-handicapped relatives actually pay it any attention, though?

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago
[-] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago
[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

Tip: be passive aggressive and sarcastic when helping them. It both teaches them the solution in a memorable way, makes them not want to get help from you again, AND makes them think twice before doing so.

this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
982 points (98.2% liked)

Programmer Humor

19443 readers
500 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS