A few weeks ago, I had trouble getting the Mike on my work headset into the right position, so I reached out to our asmin sec. Then discovered that I had it on backwards...I've been there almost 38 years and they know I'm not tech savvy.
This works for me if I catch a spell early enough:
1. Press palms over ears with fingers facing back
2. Drum on the back of my head with my palms still covering my ears
3. After 10-15 seconds, uncover my ears
IDK why but some redditor said it worked and they were right.
I rang my pc shop one morning with my unbootable machine. When they answered they said, we can hear it, take your book off your keyboard Jerry. I hadn’t even told them the problem yet!
Mine was trying to figure out why your new build won't power on and checking everything 3 times and making sure the switch is on and then finally realizing you didn't have the surge protector turned on after 4 days of freaking out 😐
When I first got Meniers disease, I had days of "How many times is my neighbor gonna mow his f-ing lawn" and "Why are there always helicopters in my neighborhood?" It's settled down a lot, but still sometimes the sounds seem real.
I had this thing with always saying that either TV or something is buzzing/ringing and always wonder if it's just my ear or it really is. Whenever I ask Mom she always says "I don't hear anything" but I just know something is buzzing. <.<
For weeks I thought I had a hard drive or fan failing because of a weird noise whenever the pc turned on… it was the xbox controller vibrating on some papers
My tinnitus changes tone and in very rare case will sound like dentist drill, it has been really long time since i had it change into that, usually i do not hear it if i do not pay attention to it, wish i could get rid of it but that is probably not possible.
My new favourite I got the other day was "nearly tear apart my whole cable setup before realising that some crickets can make a sound a lot like an electrical arc."
I actually have a spectrum analyser app on my phone specifically for me to test "Is that annoying noise a real problem, or is is my sensory system playing funny buggers again".
Last time I used it I figured that, yes, the toaster oven at the hotel cafe was indeed faulty and creating a high squeal.
My boyfriend who was a tech at the time had replaced the fans in his gaming pc. While on Discord his friends said I thought you replaced your fans. He said he did so they asked, “well then what is that noise?” It was my dog. She liked to sleep behind him on the hardwood and she snored very loudly.
one of my greatest media troubleshoots of all time was on a commercial that kept getting sent back because it had one of those tones in it that only people under 35 can hear, which ruled out all the upper managment who kept trying to pass it
Hubby was a motor pool mechanic. Jeep brought in with "rattling noise" during acceleration and deceleration. Replicated problem during test drive but nothing mechanically wrong. Fixed when the loose soda pop bottle under the seat was removed.
That's a good one. My favourite is phantom fan grinding on something. You hear a fan grinding on something, then it stops, and never comes back. Self clearancing, phantom noise, or ptsd? You'll never know
Well my ex had a problem like that once wgere every 5 min there was a buzzing sound we found out it was her little brother who had screwed a device to her desk that simulated a controller vibrating
My weirdest troubleshoot was trying to diagnose why a laptop was glitching out, seemingly randomly and only when the user was undocked. Turned out the user was wearing on of those magnetic bracelets and only sometimes it would rest on the laptop causing mayhem.
If a distant car alarm goes off sometimes you continue to hear it after it is gone and for that same reason you cant really hear your ear ringing unless something happens to disrupt the illusion.
I had one that I could only hear when my head was in a specific position in the kitchen, where the interference was constructive.
Turned out to be a faulty GU10 lightbulb.
Yes, that's my world as well.
Though I have given up asking my better half if there's crickets chirping outside - There never is but I always hear them anyway.
I thought an alarm sound was coming from my cable modem and went so far as to exchange it. I finally discovered my Brother printer is a ventriloquist and was asking if it could install a firmware update.
I thought my PC was making a weird vibration sound every time I turned it on. Took me weeks to realize it was the Xbox controller that I kept plugged in. 😅
Guy said his furnace was making a weird noise.
Same frequency as the mosquitos in my ears.
I played "Can you hear it now?" while adjusting his gas valve until it went away.
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turns out it was my cat who sat her fat ass down on top my PC a few times and it caused a fanblade to touch a tag somewhere
1. Press palms over ears with fingers facing back
2. Drum on the back of my head with my palms still covering my ears
3. After 10-15 seconds, uncover my ears
IDK why but some redditor said it worked and they were right.
Turns out, there’s a party in my head
EEEEEeeeeeEeeEeeEEEEEE
😂😂😂
Limiting your GPU to try and combat coil whine.
In the end the solution was stop listening to music so god damn loud
#sameHere
Last time I used it I figured that, yes, the toaster oven at the hotel cafe was indeed faulty and creating a high squeal.
Any window on screen scrolled up/down produced a high pitched whistle.
Changing the resolution and display frequency fixed it.
Turned out to be a faulty GU10 lightbulb.
Though I have given up asking my better half if there's crickets chirping outside - There never is but I always hear them anyway.
Rule #1
Never talk about tinnitus.
#onthedaily
Just realised that an irritating high pitch whining noise is partly down to tinnitus and not all emanating from Reform UK politicians!
Same frequency as the mosquitos in my ears.
I played "Can you hear it now?" while adjusting his gas valve until it went away.