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

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

#34
I already think the power-on noise sounds like an obnoxious fart. I can never remember how to suppress it so I refuse to turn a macbook on around other people.

I may as well install this to reaffirm that yes, this is an Apple product (in case you fail to see the prominent logo) and yes, I am better than everyone else for owning one (/sarc).

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

#36

I don't know why this reminded me of a really scumbag troll thing we would do on AIM/AOL. I guess because it involves sound and open/close. If you remember using AOL or AIM(AOL Instant Messenger) there were sound effects for various "events" like "Welcome" or "You've got mail" when you got a new email. AOL and AIM had "buddy lists" and there were sound effects when they came online or offline. Like a knocking sound a…

That reminds me of the Hook Flash in telephony for getting an operator's attention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_flash#History

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

#37
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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.

We had a classmate would would wander off with his laptop unlocked so one day we set all his system sounds to fart noises and cranked up the volume. He came back to class minimized a window and the whole class heard the noise and cracked up. We also got good mileage out of adding a wireless mouse on another occasion and zipping his cursor around the screen for probably a good ten minutes.

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

#38
Back in the days of OS7/OS8 there was a system extension called MacSniff. Your MacIntosh would randomly sniff like it had a runny nose and clear its throat. I put it on one of our group machines and within 24 hours someone turned it off with a note: machine sounds sick

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

#40

Fantastic, my kids are going to love this. Seconding the call for a video. Also the instructions to remove the quarantine attr don't work. xattr -cr ~/Downloads/FartScrollLid.app 11:12:20 option -r not recognized edit: that should be `xattr -d FartScrollLid.app`

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