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Drug Dealer |
I do. I can stand auditory ads; visual ones are bad enough but ignorable. So the sound stays off unless I wanna hear something. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | ||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Yup - I have some blockers to stop auto play things, but sometimes they get past the goalie. | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
I have a pair of wireless Sennheiser headphones that I use with the computer. They are turned off and hanging on the base unit unless I'm intentionally listening to something. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
I always have sound on because I'm either listening to music, watching videos, or playing a video game. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
My work laptop has the sound turned off. Damn autoplay ads and videos were the reason. For example, I was in a meeting and this buzzword bandit was droning on and on saying absolutely nothing so I decided to multitask and check the airline's website to see what my options were for changing flights home. Damn autoplay video pops up with a loud advertisement for the airline. Whole room turned and looked at me.This message has been edited. Last edited by: tatortodd, Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Yes! You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Off 99.9% of the time. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Oh yes, without a doubt. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Giftedly Outspoken |
I turn it off (the speaker control) when I go to bed, otherwise it is down low unless I need it. Sometimes, you gotta roll the hard six | |||
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Age Quod Agis |
Yes! All the time. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Living my life my way |
My sound is turned off unless I need it. | |||
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OFF | |||
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| Member |
Yes, always turned off. | |||
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Ammoholic |
Sound always on, running through 5.1 system. Sucks when someone is working late and my work email makes the loud inbox sound at 11:30 at night. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Off? I sure do... well, when the wifey is home  Collecting dust. | |||
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| Evil Asian Member |
No, I like sound. I wish data popping up on screen was like in the movies where every digit or data line made a blip sound as it popped up. Or like in old '70s - '90s military thrillers where there would be a CRT green font on screen with a cursor showing where the action was taking place and it would make a beeping sound as it printed out to make everything seem really serious and official, like: San Francisco California - United States: 0830 hours... I want my computer to sound like that! | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
I always have music streaming when the computer is on, and usually with headphones plugged in if Im actually at the desk. I rarely get ads that chime in unless I'm on Youtube. There was a time that I would turn the audio completely off, but either I have tinnitus, or I can't stand the dead silence, and drives me crazy, so now I have to have something playing in the background at all times. | |||
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Unless I need it (like, say, a You Tube video) it's always muted. ________________________ "Television is called a medium because nothing on it is well done." -- Fred Allen | |||
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