Another reason why drones should be banned from residential and public areas.
That seems like quite a leap. Drones are far from the worse source of noise. They can’t even stay in the air that long.
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#12Whoever decided to make cars beep when you lock or unlock them did humanity a disservice in my view. I don't think the small benefit of helping the driver locate their vehicle outweighs the shear number of times that has woken people up.
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#13For anyone looking for what the article is (mainly) about before reading it all: chiller whine for large datacenters/complexes between 630-1000 Hertz. Ironically at no point in the story did anyone actually find out how loud the noise was.
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#14I suffer from misophonia, I can’t live in an apartment or work from an office. It’s really difficult to deal with.
Everyone is used to loud noises and nobody cares, but I get seriously annoyed.
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#15Whoever decided to make cars beep when you lock or unlock them did humanity a disservice in my view. I don't think the small benefit of helping the driver locate their vehicle outweighs the shear number of times that has woken people up.
I don't usually find the lock beeping to be noticeable, certainly not louder than people's cars starting or that one asshole with the "loud and proud" engine that likes to idle it for heat in the morning.
What gets me are the people that have car alarms. I've never seen one do anything useful and people still get them. One in particular goes off weekly to the point I'm amazed it hasn't gone off due to someone putting a crowbar through the windshield. I just can't imagine having one of these go off weekly and 1) not disable it after the third time 2) not have "this must drive everyone bonkers" come across my mind.
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#16the worst are
* bells from catholic churches (when they play early Sunday morning they just invite you to blaspheme)
* muezzin shouting from the mosque (aggravated from the fact that they talk Arabic, were in many countries, e.g. Turkey, nobody talks arabic, so nobody understand!)
and the worst of the worst is that in both cases sound comes from tapes (no live at all, and very bad taped).
Any national new legislation must face this issue: as to say it will be very hard deal with, without touching religions' susceptibility.
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#17I suffer from misophonia, I can’t live in an apartment or work from an office. It’s really difficult to deal with. Everyone is used to loud noises and nobody cares, but I get seriously annoyed.
So how do you deal with it?
Are there any federal rules / regulations currently in the pipeline to help such sufferers?
Do other countries - perhaps Scandinavian - have standardized noise norms that you cannot exceed or are they pretty much non-existent everywhere?
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#18In last few months I've travelled to the US a few times. In all 3 hotels I've stayed in, I've had to switch rooms (in one hotel even 3 times in the course of a week) due to low frequency noise of ACs of neighbouring rooms and/or general ventilation system. Ear plugs simply don't cut it anymore these days.
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#19I have 3M PELTOR X5A Ear Muffs. I use them all the time, from getting a snooze while my car charges, to working in louder than necessary cafes, to getting decent if slightly uncomfortable sleep in a hotel. They're $31 delivered from Amazon. It amused the hell out of me that I had to click through an agreement saying I was a profession. I am a professional.
Since these are 31db ear muffs, they're heavier than something with less protection. These are over the head model and I may get the X5B behind the neck model. Harder to get though. Not on Amazon.
I tried noise cancelling headphones. When they work, they're great. But anything unusual and I'd get feedback. Dumb ear muffs work all the time plus they're super ugly and so people leave you alone.
I don't understand why noise cancelling doesn't recognize it's in feedback.
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#20For me the trigger is TVs. I've been renting a flat in a poorer area for over a year now. The walls are a lot thinner than in other places. There are a lot of people today (mostly 50+ year-olds) who cannot fall to sleep without the TV on. My neighbor is one of them. And the thing with TVs is that the most irritating sound frequency they emit is the one that is barely audible when you're in the same room, but when you…
I use Howard Leight’s Max every night during sleep to keep my sanity.