I am once again setting up for a customer a new PC that didn't come with a manual, required assembly with no assembly instructions, & started talking during the out-of-box experience (OOBE). There was a speaker icon, but clicking on it did nothing but make the icon's "click me" border disappear.

I get that computers need to talk for blind & low-vision users, but come on, not at the expense of making your new users deaf as well!

@arielmt we revived a very cheap very shitty android tablet a few days ago by replacing the battery and the moment it turned on the boot noise sounded like it was about to blow out the speakers

in fact once we got into the system proper anything above the very lowest non-mute volume setting was deafening