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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 3100<br />
| date = June 9, 2025<br />
| title = Alert Sound<br />
| image = alert_sound_2x.png<br />
| imagesize = 393x455px<br />
| noexpand = true<br />
| titletext = With a good battery, the device can easily last for 5 or 10 years, although the walls probably won't.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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"Living well is the best revenge" is a [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11089-living-well-is-the-best-revenge quote] attributed to George Herbert.<br />
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Most computers play sounds to notify users of various events, such as a device being connected.<br />
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Randall proposes placing a small noise making device in the wall of a room that a computer is typically used in. Because the noisemaker is programmed to periodically play a "device connected" sound, this would cause concern for the occupant of the room.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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[Cueball is sitting at his desk with a computer, surprised by a "Boop!" sound in the upper left part of the panel]<br />
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Cueball: AAAAA!<br />
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Cueball: I heard it again!<br />
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Cueball: Where is that coming from!?<br />
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[Caption below the panel:]<br />
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It turns out living well is only the second best revenge. The best revenge is making a tiny hole in someone's wall and dropping in a battery-powered capsule that, every 6-12 hours, plays the alert sound of a USB device connecting<br />
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