Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor’s music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers::Roni Bandini is using a Raspberry Pi to power his AI-driven assault against his neighbor’s regular 9am reggaeton music.

  • Hexagon@feddit.it
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    148
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    10 months ago

    From my experience, people this noisy are unlikely to be cooperative about it. Or anything else

    • motorwerks@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      77
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      10 months ago

      This has been my experience too. A random party w/ friends that rages until the next morning after 2 months of silence? Sorry, didn’t mean to be that loud. We’ll keep it down next time, let you know in advance, & even extend an invite. An every 3rd day blasting of music at whatever hour? Fuck you, I pay rent, I don’t care if it bothers you.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      44
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      I’ve found the opposite.

      A lot of people don’t understand just how paperthin those walls are or they come from an environment of “there will be noise”. If someone actually, politely, asks them to keep it down during reasonable hours, then people usually will.

      The issue is when people pound on the door as though the noise maker is the greatest asshole ever. That triggers spite. Same with unreasonable demands.

      Like, if someone asks me to keep it down at 10 PM? I will apologize like hell and turn it down. You ask me to keep it down at 9 am? I will probably tell you to go fuck yourself and explain that you live in an apartment building and there is going to be noise.


      Fun story time! One of my exes was very much “the loud neighbor”. Clomping around in heavy slippers at all hours of the night, playing loud music, turning up her tv, having a subwoofer in an apartment, etc. After I realized and felt bad I had an awkward talk like “hey… have any of your neighbors ever complained? Because if this were my apartment they would hear this god awful lawyer show from the lobby”. She didn’t believe me so I told her to just step out into the hallway and then she was MORTIFIED. Immediately turned down everything and unplugged the sub. Even wrote up a nice letter that she taped on all her neighbors’ doors to apologize.

      Within a week there had been a complaint filed against her for “vandalizing” someone’s door… by taping an apology note on there.

      Good times.

      • ABCDE@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        22
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        10 months ago

        You ask me to keep it down at 9 am? I will probably tell you to go fuck yourself

        Ah yes, YTA then.

      • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        Within a week there had been a complaint filed against her for “vandalizing” someone’s door… by taping an apology note on there.

        I’ve seen tape rip paint off when it’s removed. The door has to be removed, sanded back (the entire door, not just where the tape was… because door paint fades and you can’t match the color). A door needs three coats of hard wearing slow drying paint - has to dry overnight between coats… making it a four day job.

        Worst of all, the door has to be horizontal while the paint dries - so that’s four days with no front door. Not an option. They will usually just replace the door and that can cost thousands (but at least it won’t leave you without a front door for days).

        If you want to leave a note for someone - use the letterbox.

        Good times.

        Yeah see that shit just isn’t worth it. I had a neighbour threaten to pour milk into a work colleague’s car door once. Car doors are full of noise insulation material that would have soaked up the milk and gone mouldy/started to stink. Costs a fortune to fix that.

        Best thing to do in my opinion is call the police, anonymously. If it’s not worth a formal complaint then it’s not worth complaining at all.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          10 months ago

          Car doors are hollow mate.

          How do you expect all the mechanisms for door locking/unlocking/opening and windows to fit in there?

          Might be some rubber sound deading mat stuck to one side on a really high in car, but theres nothing absorptive inside the door.

      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        I put a note on a neighbors door about her dog that was scratching at the door, and making the door wobble, which made the whole building shake. She put a note taped to her own door rambling about abuse and how she would call the police, etc.

        When she was eventually evicted, they had to tear up the entire place, leaving the windows open to air out for over a month before they could rent it again.

      • z3r0@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        Maybe who complained for the apology note prefers a good shotgun to solve his/her neighborhood matters

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      24
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      Might be. Wouldn’t know until you try, though.

      I have a schizophrenic alcoholic 60y troll of a woman (like troll, physically) living upstairs. Always banging, screaming, listening to shitty drinking songs on a loop.

      But I went over. Several times.

      Now I just wear earplugs, take benzos and occasionally think about picking up my hammer and going for another “talk”. I thought about milder options as well. Superglue in her keyhole? Then she’d have to call a locksmith, and she’s not capable of holding a conversation long enough to convey she needs one.

      Wish she had bt speakers I could hack, but that’d probably just make her scream more.

      And the landlord won’t do shit after years of me sending videos of this loony.

      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        10 months ago

        Get your own speakers. Point them up. Play the Doom OST.

        This can be everyone’s problem, not just yours.

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          10 months ago

          Oh I have them. I don’t think she’s ever heard them over the sound of her drinking songs, screeching and the demons screeching in her head.

          I thought if some official person ever saw her, she’d fly out. So that’s why I thought glue in the keyhole, so she has to call a locksmith (which I’m sure she won’t manage) and then that person will see into her apartment. Where I don’t know what the shit she does, bangs and drills and jumps all day. It’s like she’s woodworking or something every wednesday.

          Landlord doesn’t give a shit. I’ve sent videos and doesn’t even go check her.

          I’d love to get my subwoofer screwed tightly to the roof and then just turn that on for lulz when she gets crazy. Which is pretty much everyday. But then when will I have peace?

          Haven’t read a single book while living in this apartment.