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    4 days ago

    You used to be able to sudo cat /proc/kcore > /dev/dsp and listen to your ram

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        3 days ago

        it rotated in between white noise, strobing sirens, digital corruption and silence.

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        3 days ago

        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.

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          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

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            Stand up an old VM that still has OSS. I screwed around with current drivers and didn’t get anything cool sounding.