I thought my laptop had issues, [it] turns out I'm simply a fool

By LeftFooted | bitcoinea | 2 Nov 2025


For about a week now, my laptop, which is a two-year-old MacBook Air, has been producing a chiming sound that I didn't recognise.


There seemed to be no rhyme or reason at first, but then I realised the chiming happened sort of regularly.


I couldn't pinpoint - every 10, 20, 50, 500 minutes? No idea - but it was clear that it wasn't exactly random.


So I started googling "random chiming sound macbook", and the answers I got were varied, but google did give results, which I assumed meant it wasn't in my imagination and it could be the result of an issue with Mac.


I don't know if you're on Mac, but if you are, you know that when you've got an open tab, there's a little speaker-looking animation fo every tab that plays audio in the background.


One day, the speaker animation went on, randomly, in the tab where I keep my FaucetCrypto page open - the only faucet I still use.


FaucetCrypto recently changed the UI of its site, and apparently they added a chiming sound for when the base faucet resets, every 20 minutes.


There are several ways to earn with FaucetCrypto, but one of them is a faucet which resets every 20 minutes.


And apparently it produces a chiming sound.


And why didn't I realise it earlier?


Because I always keep the faucet tab open, but I obviously can't always press the button every 20 minutes, sometimes I'm just busy.


I turned off the sound now, it's quite annoying.

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