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
May 21, 2018, 04:36 PM
RHINOWSO
Yup - I have some blockers to stop auto play things, but sometimes they get past the goalie.
May 21, 2018, 05:53 PM
PHPaul
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.
May 21, 2018, 06:49 PM
Orguss
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"
May 21, 2018, 07:20 PM
tatortodd
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, May 21, 2018 10:58 PM
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity
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May 21, 2018, 09:09 PM
Georgeair
Yes!
You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02
May 21, 2018, 09:27 PM
mcrimm
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
May 21, 2018, 09:34 PM
LS1 GTO
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...
May 21, 2018, 09:36 PM
sigarms229
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
May 21, 2018, 09:57 PM
ArtieS
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.
May 22, 2018, 09:28 AM
molachi
My sound is turned off unless I need it.
May 22, 2018, 12:17 PM
selogic
OFF
May 22, 2018, 04:44 PM
MPB
Yes, always turned off.
May 22, 2018, 05:24 PM
Skins2881
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
May 22, 2018, 08:59 PM
cparktd
Off? I sure do... well, when the wifey is home
Endeavor to persevere.
May 22, 2018, 10:33 PM
LastCubScout
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!
May 22, 2018, 10:42 PM
Nismo
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.
May 23, 2018, 12:20 AM
BrianC
Unless I need it (like, say, a You Tube video) it's always muted.
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