Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:08:17 +0200 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071ime$3qrld$2@dont-email.me> <10721bg$3uf46$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1073tgu$empg$6@dont-email.me> <689722de$0$28075$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <107gib4$3j56j$7@dont-email.me> <107hhhe$3pitk$1@dont-email.me> <4N6cnRbbIKoU0AD1nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tI2A4UTdfoSJ3GqsqNoU4waTu4jiuP+CQj4GzhQOklTlNq9jXo Cancel-Lock: sha1:qjveEK7gDbjGeItmKUG4xTJuBQ0= sha256:mGQSCteArWljfIoEsp9pKIRc2s28xTe4BhCJ8F0tqg0= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: <4N6cnRbbIKoU0AD1nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71018 alt.comp.os.windows-11:22083 On 2025-08-14 04:44, c186282 wrote: > On 8/13/25 4:14 AM, Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2025-08-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:36:40 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>> >>>> Even having a script beep or boop at you is not easy. You can echo a >>>> ctrl-G, but that's about it. Doesn't always work, either. Not in a >>>> script running in cron, for instance. >>> >>> If there is a GUI session logged in under the same user, it should be >>> possible to detect that from a cron job running under that user, and >>> communicate back through the session notification mechanism. >> >> That is going to be not only more complicated but also specific to a few >> graphical environments and configurations. >> >> This in no way compares to being able to just beep the PC speaker. > >   Basically everything now uses a 'sound chip'. It's >   not really the same as the old PC speaker beeps. > >   Now if you want to literally tweak the kernel you >   could redirect to some port/pin hardwired to a >   little speaker - send it pulses from the pin. The old speaker hardware is there exactly as it was. If they put a chip, it handles exactly the same, maybe with more features. But in Linux you don't have access to it from userland. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.