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Re: Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

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Post by kirb » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 11:33 PM UTC

Note: This appears to be a fork of Sam Henri Gold’s recent lid-angle sensor project, with the wav file changed. The readme does give credit, though the license has been changed from Apache to MIT for some reason.

Original: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Demos (no farts, sorry): https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159295473019599 https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159854830332329

Re: Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

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Post by Tade0 » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 11:36 PM UTC

What a glorious homage to fartscroll.js:

https://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/

Coincidentally the number of stars this library had over the years was a decent predictor whether a new frontend library/framework was mature enough for adoption.

In other words: if something is less popular than a joke library that makes fart sounds, can it really be considered as having the momentum to go mainstream? For instance, ReasonML struggled for years to beat fartscroll.js. Where is it now?

Re: Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

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Post by idiomat9000 » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 11:37 PM UTC

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Re: Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

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Post by vunderba » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

What you really want is two slightly different "NOM NOM" noshing sounds on open and close so you can feed it some flash drives and instantly wear out the hinge as you rapidly make your laptop mimic an eating motion.

I'm sure the fine details of the Apple warranty covers cookie monster roleplaying.

Re: Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 11:50 PM UTC

But does it change tune depending on the angle ( how tight is the opening )?

edit: clicked link. ofcourse it does

Re: Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

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Post by DonHopkins » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 11:50 PM UTC

vunderba wrote: post #14

What you really want is two slightly different "NOM NOM" noshing sounds on open and close so you can feed it some flash drives and instantly wear out the hinge as you rapidly make your laptop mimic an eating motion. I'm sure the fine details of the Apple warranty covers cookie monster roleplaying.

As long as we're testing the warrantee, how about a Farty Bird game where you flap by opening and closing your MacBook screen really fast!

Re: Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

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Post by lotsofpulp » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 11:52 PM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #5

andersco wrote: post #2

For this to truly be funny, it needs to be installed on on an unsuspecting user’s laptop, preferably some C-level type about to join an in-person board meeting.

I don't have a C-level to hand. My daughter's university laptop, however is just here...