Mastodawn

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

https://github.com/jamestomasino/beep

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!

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

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tomasino 1d ago

Are you on macOS? I've tried to create a port for homebrew. I don't have a mac to verify if this worked well, but you can give this a try:

brew tap jamestomasino/beep
brew install jamestomasino/beep/beep

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SnowBlind2005 1d ago

@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'.

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tomasino 1d ago

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

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