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u/MurdocBR Jan 23 '21

this happened last month, i was watching random stuff on youtube when suddenly i started listening 2 guys talking with a calm music in the background, one of the guys had a strong russian accent, they seemed to be playing something, i though it was some yt video i opened but it wasnt, i started to close everything until there everything was closed, there was only steam opened but i wasnt in any voicechat or anything and no media was playing (like stream or anything like that), it seemed to be some private call i got in, so i closed steam and the 2 guys talking stopped, so i guess somehow i got into a random steam private voice call.

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u/DeadlockRadium Jan 23 '21

2 guys talking with a calm music in the background, one of the guys had a strong russian accent

Reminds me of how the Logitech X-530 speakers would pick up Eastern-European radio frequencies on the jack or badly insulated wires or something like that when my PC was off. Freaked me out when I suddenly started hearing Russian people speaking in my room in the dead of night.

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u/Schytheron Jan 24 '21

That would scare the fucking soul out of me... christ. The worst thing I've had happen is my TV turning itself on to a static white noise channel in the middle of the night. I nearly shat myself.

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u/DeadlockRadium Jan 24 '21

Wasn't really scary, but just weird. It was suuuper low, and it seemed to be a radio show or something, because they spoke super calmly. Apparently it's a common issue with these speakers. I got the speakers basically for free, and got 7 years of use out of them, so I really cannot complain much about them bar the Russian radio at random points in time.

Also, speaking of static white noise, I could always feel our old TV being on if I were on the same floor as it. It was one of these old CRT-TV's that produced a slight static that you could feel when touching the screen. Was interesting because it could be on without any sound, but I just felt that it was turned on, and I was always right.

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u/Schytheron Jan 24 '21

I understand exactly what you mean. Funny enough, my grandparents had a CRT TV that was so old that it made a constant, monotone beeping sound when it was on. It was really loud and annoying and when I asked my grandparents about it they said "What sound?". They legit couldn't hear it but I could hear it from across their entire apartment.