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Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by nkrisc »

throw20251220 wrote: post #67
nkrisc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who smoke on the balconies of multi-unit buildings are awful people. It’d be a beautiful day but I can’t keep my windows open because there’s always somebody smoking to make my unit smell disgusting if I just want to enjoy a cool breeze going through. Thank goodness smoking is becoming rarer here and is no banned pretty much everywhere indoors and near entrances. I don’t mind if people have a vice (I’ve got mi…

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No, because the noise of people just living life is not comparable to cigarette smoke. You can also use earplugs if you’re that sensitive to regular noises of people living around you. That kind of sensitivity is not normal though.

I can’t stop cigarette smoke from seeping in to everything in my home if I leave the windows open. Also, smoking is not a necessary part of life. You can’t live silently.

It’s not the same.

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Post by PunchyHamster »

jakedata wrote: post #23

There was a Windows 2000 bug that would allow the computer to be crashed via a malformed IrDA packet. Of course someone crafted a Palm Pilot app to zonk all the vulnerable PCs in the vicinity. It worked on servers as well. Endless fun for a little while.

why would there be irda on server ?

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by RobotCaleb »

throw20251220 wrote: post #67
nkrisc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who smoke on the balconies of multi-unit buildings are awful people. It’d be a beautiful day but I can’t keep my windows open because there’s always somebody smoking to make my unit smell disgusting if I just want to enjoy a cool breeze going through. Thank goodness smoking is becoming rarer here and is no banned pretty much everywhere indoors and near entrances. I don’t mind if people have a vice (I’ve got mi…

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Did we find the smoker?

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by PunchyHamster »

smeej wrote: post #12

The HTC One smartphone came with a programmable IR port. All you had to do was determine the TV brand (easy if you can see it), then point the top of the phone at the TV pushing the "power" button until it went off. Then you knew you had the right configuration. I mostly used it for turning volume down in waiting rooms or at bars, but a bar was also where I figured out most of their TVs tend to be set to the same con…

My work Samsung phone also came with IR port and an app.

Third party app. Un-uninstallable

That Samsung apparently didn't pay enough coz after 3 years I had taskbar ads from that app that couldn't be removed.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by IanCal »

throw20251220 wrote: post #67
nkrisc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who smoke on the balconies of multi-unit buildings are awful people. It’d be a beautiful day but I can’t keep my windows open because there’s always somebody smoking to make my unit smell disgusting if I just want to enjoy a cool breeze going through. Thank goodness smoking is becoming rarer here and is no banned pretty much everywhere indoors and near entrances. I don’t mind if people have a vice (I’ve got mi…

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If you smoke you might not realise just how absolutely awful it smells and how it sticks to material. Sounds of children don’t.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by LightBug1 »

binaryturtle wrote: post #14
zh3 wrote: post #3

In a similar vein, many years ago I helped someone with a similar problem with a neighbour who had the volume too loud. As the aerial cable was accessible, I suggested he stick a pin through the neighbour's cable whenever the volume got too loud, and pull it out when the volume went down. Sure enough, after a while the neighbour learnt their TV only worked if they kept the volume down in the evening.

I wish there was an easy solution like this for smoking "neighbours". Some sort of detection device that instantly closes my windows automatically and then "explodes" a nasty "stinking bomb" outside (e.g. automatic opening of a container with butyric acid or similar), so it smells worse than their smoke. Eventually their brains would connect smoking with nasty stinking and stop doing it. But I wouldn't know where to…

I had this problem ... a smoker who would religiously sit on their patio and smoke so much that it would smoke us out of our house.

After speaking with them didn't help ... my next response was to religiously water the garden at the same time with my jet spray ...

I have amusing videos (from our CCTV) of our neighbour regularly diving for cover from an "accidental" spray of water.

"Sorry. I'm just watering our plants, sorry about that".

I wish I could say this solved it ... but the subtlety of the point that their smoking was impacting the enjoyment of our home, in the same way as my water spray was impacting his enjoyment of his garden was lost on them ...

We eventually settled it the old fashioned way. Not with pistols or swords ... but an old-fashioned chat after reporting them to the local council.

Luckily the problem is resolved ... but largely due to the threat of the Council taking action against their landlord.

The only solution is leverage ...

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by jmward01 »

throw20251220 wrote: post #67
nkrisc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who smoke on the balconies of multi-unit buildings are awful people. It’d be a beautiful day but I can’t keep my windows open because there’s always somebody smoking to make my unit smell disgusting if I just want to enjoy a cool breeze going through. Thank goodness smoking is becoming rarer here and is no banned pretty much everywhere indoors and near entrances. I don’t mind if people have a vice (I’ve got mi…

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Society needs kids and has a collective responsibility to raise them. It has no such obligation to cigarette smoke.

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Post by appreciatorBus »

throw20251220 wrote: post #67
nkrisc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who smoke on the balconies of multi-unit buildings are awful people. It’d be a beautiful day but I can’t keep my windows open because there’s always somebody smoking to make my unit smell disgusting if I just want to enjoy a cool breeze going through. Thank goodness smoking is becoming rarer here and is no banned pretty much everywhere indoors and near entrances. I don’t mind if people have a vice (I’ve got mi…

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No, it doesn’t work that way.

The sound of children playing is a normal part of human life, inseparable in fact from life.

The smell of cigarette smoke is neither.

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Post by 725686 »

throw20251220 wrote: post #67
nkrisc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who smoke on the balconies of multi-unit buildings are awful people. It’d be a beautiful day but I can’t keep my windows open because there’s always somebody smoking to make my unit smell disgusting if I just want to enjoy a cool breeze going through. Thank goodness smoking is becoming rarer here and is no banned pretty much everywhere indoors and near entrances. I don’t mind if people have a vice (I’ve got mi…

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You must be a very congenial neighbor.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by evgpbfhnr »

phantom784 wrote: post #29
unglaublich wrote: post #11

My, that sums up apartment living quite well. I'm all for densifying popular urban areas, but man, add some fucking sound isolation cheap landlords.

Noise from neighbors is the biggest thing that drove me to move to a single-family home.

Ironically it was quiet enough in our previous apartment, but moving to a house we now have the neighbor using their awfully loud snow-spitting machine before 6AM after snowy nights... (And it snows a lot)
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