What causes a computer to sound like a sad ghost?

I cannot find any other way to describe this sound accurately than "a sad whining ghost sound" (which i admit sounds insane). Its not whining as in coil whine (as its not a "constant high pitch noise"), nor does it sound like a "plane engine taking off", which i keep encountering every time i searched for this in the last few years

I've had this PC for around 9 years and its always sounded like this, so i don't think its any kind of issue, but it hit me that i have absolutely no idea what causes this noise. Is it the fans? Is it storage? The liquid cooling?

This is the sound it makes while completely idle btw, no apps or games open. It just sounds like that. I don't think the noise even increases under load, as i never noticed a difference when doing heavy tasks (such as running beat saber on linux with OBS).

Specs, if it helps:

  • Amd Ryzen 5
  • rtx 4060 (previously RX 570)
  • 16gb ram
  • cobra240 water cooling
  • 2 SSDs (SATA and Adata)
  • p650b gigabyte psu

For some reason its kinda quiet in the video but the sound is very audible irl, its around 45db (if i measured it right)

If i need to share some other aspect for clarity, let me know!

u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 1 day ago

Help by find "Blacktears" by an unknown artist (Genre: Ambient)

I have this MP3 from 2018 (the song may be from 1-2 years prior) thats just called "Original Blacktears". From what i remember, its "Original - Blacktears", as in, not a remix or cover. The image was the cover art of the MP3, and the thumbnail/image from the video i downloaded it from (i think it changed colors as the song progressed?)

I know i downloaded it from youtube, though searching youtube up and down yielded no results, im pretty confident it was deleted from there. Also didnt find anything on soundcloud but i dont know how to use it much, maybe its there? No "music recognizer" worked either

Song here: https://voca.ro/154SDCfY06jW (note: has a pretty loud part around 1:55 and 3:30)

Sorry if this isnt a usual request (as i technically already know the name), but i cannot find anything online about it, and really want to know who created it.

u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 7 days ago

Trying to find more info on "Jack o Lanturn"

I saved an image of this character from one of the taiko RPG games, but i CANNOT find any info on them anymore, even reverse image search failed me. I forgot which game he belongs to aswell :(

I remember they were a random enemy you could encounter, but one of them had a change of heart and could join your team. The name of the file i had saved was "STA_Jack_O_Lanturn" if that helps

Does anyone have any more info? I love their design

u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 8 days ago
▲ 182 r/youtube

Youtube will add any random UI change instead of actually improving customer experience

Note: The playback bar's head changed to fit the topic

u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 8 days ago

[TOMT] [2000s] 3d animated children series with animal characters living on an island

I give up on trying to find this on my own. I've been searching for this for the better part of a decade and still cannot find anything about it. Starting to genuinely think i just dreamt this up as a kid.

I watched an episode around the late 2000s, very probably around the same time shows like backyardigans and mechanimals

I dont remember much, but:

  • There were 3 animal "families" on the island, and the 3 kids from those families played toghether
  • The island was slightly raised off of the sea, it kinda just looked like a cylinder of earth slightly rising out of the water
  • The houses for each of the families had this glass dome around it (like sandy from spongebob), though i dont think there was any explanation for that

The episode i watched had one of the kids' grandpa show them how to fish, he brought them to this lower part of the island, where there was a small indent/cave they had never seen before that was full of fishing gear. They then all got into a rowboat and the grandpa sailed slightly away from the island so they could fish.

I dont remember anything else, i dont know the intro, what the animals the characters were, or what actually went down during the fishing. I feel like i used to remember at least one of the animals species (bear? otter?) but the amount of times i tried to recall this might have messed if up :(

If it helps, im brazilian. Though all of the cartoons at the time that looked like that (3d rendered, i mean) were american, so it probably was as well.

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 10 days ago

Use steam deck/controller gyro in RPCS3?

I'm playing through a game that requires the gyro to progress (doki-doki universe). The steam deck already has a gyro, but i cant figure out how to use it, seems to be unsupported?

I could not get the "emulate gyro with mouse" working either (by using the "gyro to mouse" on the controller settings), so that i could at least get through that section

I dont need a fully working gyro, just enough to get past this section of the game, it can be clunky! What i need is to be able to "rumble by shaking the controller repeatedly, then tilting so that characters fall down"

Could anyone help?

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 11 days ago
▲ 12 r/cachyos

PC *still* completely freezes up if browser is using hardware acceleration?

So, I had this problem for months when i first switched to CachyOS, daily computer freezes (sometimes multiple times a day) where i cant move the mouse, i cant input anything, etc. The screen showed the second it froze and stayed like that until it got turned off by the manual power button (which is probably bad for the PC, but i had no choice).

It took me months to figure this out, as there are always no logs related to the freeze during that time, but it seemed like it was an interaction with nvidia and linux (known to be unstable from what i read), so i removed hardware acceleration from browser i was mainly using, brave.

Just like that, poof, never froze again. Months passed, no issues. But recently ive been joining game jams again and you straight up cannot play (or in my case, playtest) any games without hardware acceleration. A few other websites are also broken, such as minecraft seed viewers, so its not just games that are affected buy not having this setting.

Its been more than a year since ive encoutered this issue originally and i wanted to know, is there truly no other way to fix this issue than live without hardware acceleration?

Sorry if this seems ranty, im just confused on how i cant seem to find a solution to this issue more than a year after i encountered it. Is there something im missing?

Edit: Sorry, i forgot the specs
cpu: ryzen 5 1600
gpu: RTX 4060
16gb ram ddr4

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 1 month ago
▲ 3 r/vita3k

Doki-Doki Universe says "Playable" but interacting with anything crashes the game?

So, the EUR version cant even get to the main menu (graphical glitches and crashes after the company logo) and running with Vulkan is straight up a no-go. I get that.

But on the website, it says "Playable" with the USA version using OpenGL, but thats not the case. After getting control of the character (aka right after the intro cutscene), interacting with any NPC (required to progress) just crashes the game (and the desktop it seems).

Is there some other setting im missing? The github issue doesnt mention anything else, but the game is listed as "playable"... This is the only vita game i want to play :(

Im using the vita3k binary on the steam deck (installed through es-de, if thats relevant)

u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 1 month ago

What's the name of the action where you tap your fingers from pinky to index?

You tap them in a rhythm, on a table or similar surface. Usually signifies boredom, but can indicate thinking as well.

I like the noise, wanted to know if it has a name

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 1 month ago

Does anyone have any alternatives to fangamer's shipping cost?

https://preview.redd.it/wsfj7yneyi6h1.png?width=466&format=png&auto=webp&s=a52e2c59ac722a274435764ab4a557e2ae8cb3fe

This is a beautiful vinyl, that i really wanted to buy, but not for that price, yeesh... And that possibly doesnt even include the import costs from what the website implies, so another 50% when it lands in Brazil.

More than half of a monthly minimum wage feels absurd for a vinyl, even if i want it a lot.

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 2 months ago

Is there something similar to the MX lily58, but without the number row (46 keys)?

I saw there is a Hillside 46 (which would be perfect!!), but i cannot find the cherry MX version for it, only the low-profile choc version shows up

The corne v4 comes close too, but i want a keyboard with the PCB separate from the controller.

Has to be open source

Sorry if this is a dumb question, i couldn't find an easy way to search which keyboard layouts exist

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 2 months ago

Sound tags getting corrupt randomly?

Im on android, using musicolet. about 1500 songs

Occasionally i will check my music library to find 1-3 songs have a corrupted title/artist/genre.

Its not due to "weird characters" as they all used ascii characters, nor were they like this when i tagged them manually

This bothers me since the song usually becomes un-findable, but i usually can see which ones corrupted when i sort by name

Songs in image were previously called: Children of infinite hell, Pink Sand (artist name also corrupted here), Bad end Theater

Does anyone know what causes this?

u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 2 months ago

Game with a lot of resource collection that never gets automated?

Weird request, but basically a grindy game where you chop a lot of wood or mine a lot, and you can progressively get better tools, but it never gets automated. You would still need to go out and gather the resource.

Im NOT looking for sandbox or survival games, I want RPG mechanics and not much depth, just getting resources mostly for number go up.

The only one i can think of (for some reason) is a roblox game i played when i was younger called lumber tycoon 2. I really dont want to interact with roblox if possible, though.

Aside from wanting it to be on PC, it can by any playtime lengh, any style, can be 3d or 2d, etc.

Edit: When i say resource collection, i mean hitting a tree with and axe or hitting rocks with pickaxes, not "receiving resources as rewards for other actions". Sorry for not clarifying.

Also, please don't recommend games where you can technically choose to not automate, when that means just grinding more and was clearly not the intended way to play.

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 2 months ago

Is it possible to change the seed of a world for only new chunks?

Basically, Im curious if its possible to have a frankenstein world, wonky chunk borders and all

For example, i would take a world created with seedA, somehow change the seed to seedB, then go into un-explored chunks to see seedB while keeping the explored chunks from seedA unchanged.

For some reason, searching for this only shows "how to change your server seed" (where all chunks will be regenerated), but i want to do this with my local singleplayer world without altering existing chunks.

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 2 months ago

Is it possible to read the Alice Selezneva series in english?

I saw that the book Alice: The Girl from Earth exists, but nothing else beyond it, is that right? Im talking about the books published by Kir Bulychev (Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko)

From what i can tell, Alice: The Girl from Earth adapts the first four books in the series, up to Alice's Birthday. But thats only 4 out of 50 (?) books an short stories including Alice and the retrofuturistic world.

The main one i wanted to get to is One Hundred Years Ahead, which is the one they adapted as Guest From The Future (the miniseries from 1985). It seems to be the 5th book in the Alice series.

I dont understand russian, so reading the originals is not something im able to do, unfortunately... I know how to read cyrillic for a quick search but not much else.

Im not asking for a book recommendation btw, this is a question about whether the series was ever translated or not. It doesnt need to be "official" either

u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 2 months ago

What video game songs in 7/4 (or 7/8) do you like?

Surprised i couldn't find any results on this... I love how this time signature sounds but the only examples i have are these:

- Haggstrom (from Minecraft)

- SevenFour.ogg (from Deltarune Chapter 4)

- Mother Brain Boss (from Super Metroid)

- PULSE / Third Wave Flip Flop (from A Dance of Fire and Ice)

Can be songs you like, or just any that you know, since it seems there are very few songs that fit the bill from (what i could find). Give me recommendations!

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u/Competitive_Cow4534 — 3 months ago