Posted on 04/02/2020 8:42:29 PM PDT by dangus
Oh, sure I hate people who design packages like the inner cereal bag you can't open without using your teeth. Or the tiny little necks on ketchup bottles. Or the erupting juice boxes (why can't I peel off the seal? Why make me apply pressure with the ideal conduit for juice to squirt at my new shirt?)
But no-one deserves to be stuck on a car trip with the Eagles' Love Will Keep Us Alive on endless loop like the bastards who made *every* *single* *appliance* *I* *own* attempt to tell me something with the same high-pitched beep that goes off too frequently to catch naps in between but far too infrequently to be hunted down with any human sense of auditory direction.
Is it my dishwasher? My microwave? My can-opener? My refrigerator?
Seriously, if my fire detector batteries are going bad, I need to know that I might die if I don't replace. I am NOT going to die because I left 13 seconds on the timer on my microwave, unless my lack of sleep causes me to drive my car into a bus filled with 50 innocent school children on their way back from visiting the old folks' home.
After unplugging every device in my house, the beep continues. And kitchen appliances aren't easy to unplug; I had to simply hit the circuit breaker to turn off my stove. WTF!!! Someone designed an internal battery to stay on when the power is off just to remind me that my popcorn finished popping 13 seconds faster than I expected? Or was my dishwasher reminding me that I decided to wait until my wife was finished showering before finishing the dishes? Can't you design a dishwasher that says, "The dishes are not finished being washed." I can even look up what "Shokkiarai ga owatte imasen" means if it comes to that. Where do I look up what "beep ... [nine minutes of silence] ... beep" means?
I need someone to decode these beeps! I finally figured out what was making the beep, after finishing my letter to the Maytag repairman that my washing machine didn't come with a pet bat enclosed. (Is that how everyone else knows what the beeps mean? You all have pet bats or something? Was I not allowed one after the ASPCA found out I was playing a Mariah Carey album so I could laugh at the bats crashing into my shed when ever she hit a high note?)
See, when I bought my house, it came with a security system. I don't have a subscription, but it does tell me whenever someone comes into the house. Yeah, that's right, it tells me "Front door is open" whenever I come home. But six weeks after moving in, it decides to beep to tell me that my subscription ran out six months ago. THE THING LITERALLY COULD SAY "My subscription ran out, you cheap bastard!" And instead, it uses the EXACT SAME NOISE my dishwasher uses to tell me, "Hey idiot... the wife is out of the shower and the rice is starting to fuse to your breakfast bowl."
Electronics engineers, know this. I will find you. I have an old car, an auto-looping cassette player, and a cassette single of Dream Lover. You will pay.
I don't run PowerPanel on the computers connected to the UPSes. I just keep it on a Windows laptop and connect to the UPS as needed.
Used that way, PowerPanel seems OK.
God bless you, my kindred spirit!
our ice maker made a very little beep every few seconds....there was an ice cube stuck in there and when I dislodged it, the beep stopped...
They tend to do that because they’re often badly written or contain a lot of useless stuff. PowerPanel is the worst offender, but some of APC’s PowerChute versions in the past have been almost as bad. TrippLite’s software’s pretty good, I’ve never had it misbehave except when Windows itself needed a reinstall.
ROTFLMAO!
THAT post REALLY made me grin! You KNOW!
Because you absolutely need to be told by your ice-maker that there’s an ice cube in your ice-maker. No-one should be able to sleep with that threat to civilization!!!
Seriously, the only “communication” an ice-maker should make is that thunderous crash in the middle of the night that says, “I’m done with THAT batch of ice!!!”
Exactly. Now, I know and understand people who love vinyl, but...when I heard a CD for the first time around 1980, I think...I went full bore into that.
The sound of a scratchy vinyl record makes my skin crawl, and I put up with it for so long!
Heheh...and the records that would get stuck where one small part would keep playing over and over again until you went up and smacked the record player on the side to get it past the part...
Ah, the old days!!!
Remember putting coins on the needle arm so the record wouldn’t get stuck?
What is your opinion of nut or apcupsd?
I had one of those. After the initial version with the Japanese lady, they hired a North American lady to do the recording. It went over better, but unfortunately the domestic makes poisoned that well with the stupid “Your. Door. Is. A. Jar.” crap that turned everyone off.
One of the first gen versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJBko3-oV4 - Note that this one has three different voice actresses, all of which were used in the US market.
The second gen ones were all digital and much clearer, featuring just one voice actress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SCGhc4AC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45fXHSwa0T0
Related: The voice of the F/A-18 flight control system recently retired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnMfnyJ_k4Y
Nah, I had that one on my K-Tel Hit Collection cassette tape. But if you don’t remember whether it was Foghat or Journey, it’s gotta be “Slow Ride” by Foghat. You’re just not sure it was Foghat because you can’t quite believe you actually bought a Foghat album.... and if that’s it, you know where the CLACK *has* to happen... there just aren’t that many different lyrics!
Is your alarm ADT?
You can find lots of obscure answers on the internet if you keep digging and refine your search.
99% of the searches will give you the same wrong answer ('Did you check your smoke/CO2 detector?') but if you keep refining search terms and scroll through all the same wrong answers you just might stumble across the answer you're looking for.
I have the exact same alarm “Alert: Front Door” or “Alert: First Den Window”... but I thought it was just to let me know which direction to shoot.
Once at 3 am the wired smoke alarm started to chirp. Loud. Like a fire alarm should. Every 60 seconds. But it was mounted very high on a vaulted ceiling. I had to go the garage, get the extending ladder, take it up the stairs, extend it, prop it up against the wall and climb up such a way that if I fell I would fall over the banister and onto the staircase about 12 feet below. So before climbing the ladder I DID go grab a bat, the one that has “bust yo head” carved in it, climbed up the ladder and smashed the damn thing off the wall.
Both are kind of out of date, honestly. Haven’t been updated in several years, but if you’re running Linux they can be your only game in town.
>> Is your alarm ADT? <<
I’m not sure. I think it was a Honeywell. I took it out into a field and beat it with a shovel until it cried for mercy. I’d like to think that’s what that final beep was for, anyway. I’m frankly a little worried that I still hear “*beep* *beep* front door” whenever I come in.
Yep. A house shouldn’t sound like a fast food joint.
Necessary PITAs. Yep.
Excellent post!
I lived in my little house for a whole year and a half with a strange, infrequent (every half hour or so) weak little beep. But, my house is little, so it sounded BIG! Only one smoke detector (little house), and I just took the damn battery out...and still the beeping continued.
One of my sons finally got sick of hearing it (phone call: “Hi Mom, how’s it going? *beep* Did you find *beep* where that’s *beep* coming from?”
Me: “Nope, I’ve decided to just *beep* call it a bird noise *beep* and live with it *beep*)
Son comes to visit, finds CO2 detector that I didn’t even know I had...it needed a new battery. He replaced the battery, and I threw the damn thing in the garbage after he left!
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