Almost any feedback noise. How is it that phone keyboards make noise by default? Fake camera shutter too needs to be turned off immediately on every phone.
I bought a washing machine recently - it beeped four times whenever the setting dial on the front moved even one place. I heard the guy who installed it testing it out and nearly sent it back before finding I could turn it off.
Why do Foley artists do noises whenever a computer does something? If my pc had a sound every time a window opened, a loading bar appeared, or some text appeared on screen, I would not be the perennially online misfit I am today.
I learned how to solder purely to remove unnecessary beepers and LEDs from appliances
What drives me bonkers are the unnecessarily intensely piercing-bright white LEDs, TWO of them, in the UPC scanners at Goodwill, that somehow need to be on a stupid stand so the LEDs shine EXACTLY into people standing in line. Why the hell do you need such obnoxiously bright LEDs to read a barcode? And why do they need to be always on?
And yet, the stupid “modern look” air conditioner I’m saddled with has stupid 7 segment displays that shine through the white plastic shell, and THOSE stupid LEDs have lost 95% of their brightness (in uneven spots) in less than two years…
Random douchebags roaring through the streets in their modded cars, especially after lights out. Don’t even get me started on the folks who do that and crank up their stereos all the way blasting music.
I feel we should be allowed to catch these drivers, strap them to a chair at ear level of their idiotic car and have it run full throttle in their ear until the gas runs out.
That along with obnoxiously loud motorcycles tops the list for me.
Should be confiscated on sight (sound?) and tossed into a portable metal crusher.
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I am not autistic, but I have pretty severe misophonia. Sand paper is the worst. Just thinking about it is uncomfortable.
Yeah, sandpaper is rough
Gadamyu.
Reluctantly upvoted.
Polystyrene. Everything about it is terrible, it makes a horrible squeaking noise.
most high pitched squeals
When people run their nails over a velvety surface. I have no idea why, but it makes my tongue itch. It’s specifically the back of bus seats that bother me for some reason. I haven’t ridden on a bus in years, and it still bothers me. I have no idea why.
Coil whine. Especially if it ends up triggering an acute tinnitus flare up, which is like coil whine times a million
Idk, maybe nails on a chalkboard, or someone blowing a raspberry.
Nothing drives me crazier than a loud bird making the same obnoxious sounds over and over again for attention. Parrots, cockatiels, and mockingbirds are especially infuriating. I love birds but never want to own one ever again.
OK since nobody has said it yet. How everything has a goddamn LED in it to show its on or off or disconnected or whatever.
I hate how I have to put eletrical tape over all my device lights so I can get some peace at night.
Edit: shit this thread is specifically about noises, not general annoyances. I do not retract my statement however.
I hate how I have to put eletrical tape over all my device lights so I can get some peace at night.
This was at its worst when blue LEDs were new. Everybody wanted to show how cool they were and used a blue LED, but they were the brightest lights imaginable.
Like, just a hint, if your indicator light actually casts shadows on my wall at night, it’s too bright.
I’m kinda the opposite—I miss functional LEDs on things. I miss disk activity light the most, but there’s many things that have no indication as to whether they’re even on or connected. Overly bright LEDs are a problem tho
YES, especially when they’re overly bright for their intended purpose. Notify bright, ok. Pin hole sized LED bright enough to light up an entire room at night, NOT OK.
Count your lucky stars you cannot hear LED’s.
I can. My hearing is extremely sensitive.
I’ve gone through the effort to set up smart plugs for most of my devices, to turn off automatically, for no other reason than eliminating the buzz.
Oof. I hear cheap charging blocks, LEDs would suck
Charging is hit or miss for me, my USB-A > USB-C outlets are silent, but I can hear the buzz from USB-C > USB-C
That is actually pretty interesting! Are you sure it is the LEDs that you can hear? I would probably lean towards the mains 50Hz buzz being heard by you due to internal transformers
Depends; I’m a lot older now and deaf (but have tinnitus, yay) in one ear, but I could hear the flyback whine of old TVs. I can hear the odd switching regulator still, but most these days are switching waaaaay above even the best human hearing range.
50/60Hz buzz should be fairly rare these days except for some high power cases or some really poorly designed electronics.
I could hear the flyback whine of old TVs
Man, I hated that sound. A lot of computer monitors had it too before they switched to LED/LCD displays.
It’s without a doubt the LED’s themselves. Moving closer to the exact location of the LED confirms it.
For some cheap products, I’ve physically cut one side of the LED pin to shut it up, and the buzzing stops.
Though technically it could be the sound of a capacitor charging/discharging or the resistors, not exactly sure on the exact mechanism, but it’s at the very least something on the LED circuit.
Encouragement to do a double blind test on this one; box up some LED’s with a power strip, one on and one off, have the person who set them randomize which are on and then you guess which (neither, R, L, both). Repeat a few times.
I know similar experiences aren’t predictive, the sound is a kind of synesthesia with the concept of running electronics (which is itself pretty cool/interesting!).
A double blind would mean no results are discovered lol.
A single blind test would be fine.
And yes, I’ve done this. I’ve turned away from a device, and my partner either toggled a switch powering thw device, or a switch which wasn’t connected to anything.Perfect accuracy.
Edit: I replied when i first woke up. I didn’t read carefully.
Neat experiment idea but I don’t have a tools for that lol.
If I ever do, I’ll pin this message and reply to it :p
Literally the only good thing about my hearing loss is I don’t have to deal with this sort of thing anymore. I used to be able to hear myself blink if the room was quiet enough. I used to get my hearing tested regularly to make sure my meds weren’t damaging it and I could hear both higher and significantly lower sounds than humans are supposed to hear. Now that one ear is basically shot they don’t care anymore about testing
…wow, you just reminded me that i used to hear LEDs, too: i’d totally forgotten about that…anyway, i can vouch that commuting a couple of hours every day in a top-down roadster for twenty years makes the problem go away; heck, the tinnitus even drowns out a lot of electronic-feedback clicks and beeps which are supposed to be audible…
I have an air purifier and one of the amazing things about it that they haven’t actually advertised is that there is a button you can press to make all the LEDs go off. I just bought the best one in my price range, but if they put that feature on the box I’d have gone right for it.
Blue LEDs are the absolute worst. I have to keep my bedroom door shut to sleep at night because the LED clock display on my stove is so goddamn bright it lights up the whole house.
I was part of a “focus group” just some random people that my friend and his team asked questions to about some humidifier or something, I genuinely don’t remember and he was shocked when I said I didn’t want ANY LED lights on the product and he’s like “how will you know it’s on??” On a product that would absolutely make noise while running. We compromised and I told him a completely hidden LED under the product, as long as it had no light leaks would be acceptable.
Most annoying noise is my phone alarm in the morning.
Why did we build a society where we must wake up and drive away from our homes full of love and beauty at the maximum legal speed every day?
I like it when my cat beeps and makes noises.
Don’t put it in reverse then.
Honestly…the discord notification or my phone vibrating.
When you’re busy with something but the crew starts a back and forth in the group chat and it just keeps going off.
There should be a setting that only sends a notification once from the same channel over a set period of time.
I find I simultaneously want them to stfu but also know everything they’re saying.
Its not the notification sound mind you. Its the sound of the phone vibrating against whatever its resting on.
The key for me is, set notifications for DMs and @s only.
Don’t need to be getting pinged for channel messages.
I have a super low tolerance for distracting noises so I deadass turned discord message sound off.
Phone goes brrr
For the past several months, in my neighborhood, there is a periodic very low frequency thumping sound. Imagine a chopper motorcycle idling, but lower frequency and very distant. It comes, lasts about 20 minutes, and then stops. I’ve only heard from one other person in the neighborhood who has noticed it.
Closing the windows does nothing because it’s such a low frequency. Also, because it’s a low frequency, it sounds the same whether inside or outside, and it’s impossible to figure out which direction it’s coming from. I usually miss it during the day, but at night, if I hear it I can’t get to sleep until it stops.
