zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.ml · 5 days agoAn amazing directory: /proclemmy.mlimagemessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1957arrow-down13
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minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·4 days agoYou used to be able to sudo cat /proc/kcore > /dev/dsp and listen to your ram
minus-squaremuusemuuse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoWouldn’t that just sound like gibberish? I feel like Mike Lindell would come out of the speakers.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoit rotated in between white noise, strobing sirens, digital corruption and silence.
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoThat sounds really interesting! I couldn’t find anything else on this. Is this like pre-systemd?
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoIt was before OSS was taken over by ALSA (and other things) for sound. OSS let you play loose and fast and was very forgiving. I just tried using pulseaudio to do it and barely got a burble of static out of it.
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 day agoThat is super rad. I wonder how hard it would be to replicate today. We could have a “RAMcore” subgenre. I wonder how running different processes affects the sound? Imagine if the German underground scene discovered RAM noises. . .damn, RAMmstein is already taken. XD All seriousness though…I now wanna know what my RAM sounds like. Lol
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoStand up an old VM that still has OSS. I screwed around with current drivers and didn’t get anything cool sounding.
You used to be able to sudo cat /proc/kcore > /dev/dsp and listen to your ram
The RAM whisperer.
Wouldn’t that just sound like gibberish? I feel like Mike Lindell would come out of the speakers.
it rotated in between white noise, strobing sirens, digital corruption and silence.
That sounds really interesting! I couldn’t find anything else on this. Is this like pre-systemd?
It was before OSS was taken over by ALSA (and other things) for sound. OSS let you play loose and fast and was very forgiving. I just tried using pulseaudio to do it and barely got a burble of static out of it.
That is super rad. I wonder how hard it would be to replicate today.
We could have a “RAMcore” subgenre. I wonder how running different processes affects the sound?
Imagine if the German underground scene discovered RAM noises. . .damn, RAMmstein is already taken. XD
All seriousness though…I now wanna know what my RAM sounds like. Lol
Stand up an old VM that still has OSS. I screwed around with current drivers and didn’t get anything cool sounding.