• zebidiah@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    GTA4 coded this into the game, the radio will play interference just before your phone goes off…

    First time i noticed it, i heard the static, picked up my IRL phone, and then the game phone started ringing. 10/10 immersion and bamboozle

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    6 days ago

    A co worker called me into their office yesterday because their computer was making a weird noise every now and then and they couldn’t figure it out. After his hilarious attempts to make the noise I tried calling him on his cell phone and sure enough that was the sound. Damn kids.

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      6 days ago

      Why is your coworker still using an old 2G GSM phone? The only way this could happen in 2025 is if the phone is connected to a really old network for some reason. (Do you live in a remote area with poor coverage?)

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    7 days ago

    My old Sony Dream Machine alarm clock can tell me when my cell phone pings a cell phone tower or is about to get a text when it is sitting next to it. The unshielded wires on the speakers make them go pppbbbpppbbbschzzzzzz… pppbbbpppbbbbschzzzzz…

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    6 days ago

    Memory unlocked! My brother used to have this sound as his ring tone. Threw me off the first few times it rang!

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      7 days ago

      This has to do with the speakers picking up signals from your mobile phone. Before a mobile phone rings, if it is close to the speakers, somehow the signal would make the speakers go “dudud dudud dudududu”.

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        7 days ago

        No, my dial up modem in my desktop pc. Some. Pcs use the external speaker, some used the motherboard speaker and my dial up modem had its own speaker. God forbid someone picked up a phone to dial.

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          The meme is about incoming phone calls and its effects on the speakers. It has nothing to do with the modem.

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            6 days ago

            Dial up modems, like the ones the poster mentioned, could receive incoming phone calls as part of their normal function

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              The “dudud dudud dudududu” sound in the meme is completely different to the dial-up modem handshake sound “skreeee-chirrup-buzzzzwheee-krkkrkkrk-shhhhh”.

              The “dudud dudud dudududu” sound happens BEFORE an incoming mobile phone call. The “skreeee-chirrup-buzzzzwheee-krkkrkkrk-shhhhh” sound happens after an incoming land-line call is picked up.

              Source: I used to host a BBS with a Hayes 2400 bps modem.