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[torkell]

You never realise just how loud your desktop is, until you sit and use the laptop instead. Without the sound of all the fans and whine of failing hard disk bearings, you can hear other sounds...

The wind in the trees outside, the rain lashing against the window.
The low buzz/rumble of the kitchen extractor fan resonating slightly, varying up and down in pitch.
The gentle airy whirr of the laptop hard disk, with the odd click as it talks to itself.
The reliable tick...tick...tick...tick... of a small clock.
The 'tock' of a relay and the hum of a pump as the boiler preheats the heat exchanger.

What do you hear right now?

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[pewterfish.livejournal.com]

I hear fan-whine, since Chimaera only very rarely actually powers off. Tone changes very slightly every so often, as the fan controller picks up on temperature variation.

Of course, the clicky-clicky of my battered old warhorse keyboard, now I'm bothering to listen while replying.

My housemate's girlfriend, sighing through the over-thin wall.

The rain on the windows, and the periodic sounds of digestion as my computer flushes buffers to disk.

That's outside. Within, between the ears, I hear other things, but they matter less to the world.