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/

explainxkcd for #3100

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Fallout 76 has a location, Alpine River Cabins, which is rigged up to have random screams and suchlike play, along with some other rigged things, like doors randomly opening and closing.

    I remember the first time I ran across them, walking by the road that ran near the cabins, and was like “what the hell?”