Re: git: 225639e7db68 - main - vt: Disable bell by default
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:14:26 UTC
Shawn Webb wrote in <20211022134229.jrkkgahnu6bz2aec@mutt-hbsd>: ... |Tangentially related for curious minds: | |Tom Scott did a video in 2014 about how the types of trucks that beep |when reversing are changing from the traditional beep to a white noise |type of beep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8 Oh! This terrible sound, how i hated when German producers adding this!!! And i always asked myself, why didn't they use something more mindful, say Beethoven ta-ta-ta-taam, or something? American trucks could have used something like Dylan's A Hard Rain's gonna fall, or what do i know from American songbook. The thrill is gone maybe, though with that Baldwin accident maybe not so good. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)