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Fun fact: back in the 90s, some motherboards would start playing "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" through the internal speaker if the CPU fan was failing. So if you started hearing that, that meant your computer was about to fry itself.
I miss those lil internal speakers, games sounded so fun when made up of variations of a high pitched beep.
They're still there.
My mom gets a scam page on her browser like once a week. It jams full screen and she cant remember F10 or winkey to get it to where she can kill it (#retirees). So it'll play "you have a virus. Call the number on the screen" through her internal speaker and USB headphones looping the same minute-long speech for days until she calls me to fix it.
I can only imagine.
HAL 9000 vibes
So that's why my Furby started screaming Feliz Navidad before its battery exploded
Do you have any idea how weird that was the first time someone brought one of those in? We absolutely refused to believe him - we were an ISP that only did a little PC work - until we had it on the bench and it really was doing it.