• OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The second a smoke alarm starts the low battery beeping in my house, I’m wide awake. I don’t know how someone can sleep through it.

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    1 year ago

    On US Navy ships, one of the first indications of a casualty is that ventilation stops, either via loss of electrical power or on purpose to prevent the spread of smoke. I now have an acute response when any fans suddenly turn off.

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        1 year ago

        I’m so used to the noise of cars that I can barely sleep without it, due to my bed standing literally five meters away from the main road as a kid.
        Now it’s also impossible to sleep without the sound of the fan of my PI rumouring because it’s probably dusted inside the mechanism, like the Servers fans. And if I don’t hear those HDDs spinning up at 4 am for the nightly backup, sleep can wait.

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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure this is a thing, I sleep with a fan so my girlfriend does too, I often get up a lot in the middle of the night and she hardly wakes, and we even sleep with the TV on sometimes though i don’t like it. One time though I accidentally unplugged the fan and our white noise was gone and she shot straight up super startled like I had set off fireworks

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      1 year ago

      Put some pieces of soft wood like fir around your place, cats like sharpening their claws on it and it will likely save your carpets and furniture.

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    1 year ago

    LOL I have a fan that automatically stop if it run for too long, I have it for 1.5 years to this day I still don’t know why

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    1 year ago

    Lately, I’ve been really into self hosting. My first thought was server fan, not air conditioning haha🫠

    • Carl@sh.itjust.works
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      Almost me, except I had to get up and check the window, when it sounded like my cat clawing at it. It wasn’t my cat. It was a middle aged woman who was cutting my bedroom screen open. After opening my curtains she ran away, so nothing happened. But I had to get my screen fixed. And I was scared to sleep in my bedroom for a month, and with lights on.

  • ijeff@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    There’s an opportunity here somewhere for AC/fan/heaters with alarm integration 🤔.