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xkcd #3100: Alert Sound

Title text:

With a good battery, the device can easily last for 5 or 10 years, although the walls probably won't.

Transcript:

[A loud sound appears out of nowhere in the upper left part of the panel, around the word are many small lines going away from it and before the word there is a warning emoji. In the lower right corner Cueball is sitting in an office chair at his desk in front of his computer. He is holding his hands to his head and begins by shouting and then talking.]
⚠ Boop!
Cueball: Aaaaa!
Cueball: I heard it again!
Cueball: Where is that coming from!?
[Caption below the panel:]
It turns out living well is only the second best revenge. The best revenge is making a tiny hole in someone's wall and dropping in a battery-powered capsule that, every 6-12 hours, plays the alert sound of a USB device connecting.

Source: https://xkcd.com/3100/

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

They were bought and basically no longer exist. Hot Topic was going to buy them but then GameStop came in with a higher offer. For a while they launched ThinkGeek retail stores in shopping malls but eventually shut them all down and now they basically only exist as some tchotchkes in GameStop stores. Even the website just seems to redirect to the main GameStop page now, not their “store” within the GameStop webstore.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Enshittification.