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On not wearing headphones in public places (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] aeiou@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

My neighbor has the same five country songs on blast eight hours a day, seven days a week, rain or shine

I now have to pick between my sanity and fresh air.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I wonder how well sound cancelling techniques would work here. Basically, identify the song, play the inverse, and you should only have to deal with a couple seconds of that nonsense.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FCC be damned; I'd be looking for any and all electronic devices that would interfere with theirs.

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

Sometimes I idly fantasize about building one of those ultrasonic projectors to remotely turn their windows into speakers and loop their own music back at them

but unfortunately I'm not enough of a jerk to actually do it