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What is something you can sense that few-if-any people you know can sense? Literal answers only.

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[-] lucg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I definitely can't hear high frequencies (I'm assuming due to ear infections as a child, feels mildly unfair that other people my age get to hear and understand conversations better but oh well) but coil whine is a thing for me as well.

Had a router once that would whine depending on the network packet rate. My computer screen makes a noise when displaying large grids like a screen full of terminal text or a mostly blank spreadsheet. The led lights in my bathroom make a noise and I often turn them off while transacting my business. My Bluetooth headphones make similar noises depending on the connection state but that one is probably interference and not coil whine

It happens at all frequencies. Although you don't need to be able to hear special frequencies for it, of course you'll hear it in more places if you have superlucg hearing ^^

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