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What was the device?
Sounds like an annoyatron or a clone. A tiny device that randomly beeps with a time interval just long enough to be hard to find and annoying. They've been around for a couple decades.
Once upon a time I wired up a tiny little audio mux and attached it to my boss’s speakers, along with a bluetooth receiver. I was able to use my phone to inject random Mario sound effects into his music stream all day.
He was convinced he had a virus so he unplugged his audio from the computer, and to his surprise the speakers kept playing sounds sporadically.
The good ones don’t even use the same time interval each time. They’re all over a minute or two, but sometimes like 5 or 6 minutes. They’re truly diabolical.
I've seen ones that also have a photosensor so you can set it to only make noise if the lights are out.
No the elders of the Internet would never trust him with it. It's too risky
Probably this, going off of the price and description in the article.
Going by price and that the only description was beeping: https://www.amazon.com/Funny-Pranks-Annoying-Noise-Maker/dp/B08KG6XHN1/ref=asc_df_B08KG6XHN1?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80814222102183&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584413749420277&psc=1
Probably right because they said it sounded like a cricket.