Idk maybe go over and knock on the door and have a conversation about it?
Seems easier.
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Idk maybe go over and knock on the door and have a conversation about it?
Seems easier.
From my experience, people this noisy are unlikely to be cooperative about it. Or anything else
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.
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.
You ask me to keep it down at 9 am? I will probably tell you to go fuck yourself
Ah yes, YTA then.
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.
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.
Get your own speakers. Point them up. Play the Doom OST.
This can be everyone's problem, not just yours.
Dude in my apartment complex was murdered for asking his neighbor to turn their music down. The civil option doesn't work when the other party isn't civil, unfortunately.
I tried this, once.
There was 3 gunshots from what sounded like inside the place before my knuckles hit the door, and I turned around and ran the fuck back home.
This isnt the 1950s. Asking assholes to have some consideration, no matter how polite, is a good way to get dead.
(for the record,later found out the gunshots were from the back yard, turns out they were also drunk and shooting guns into the air for... reasons?)
People like this can be unstable. I had to live next door to someone like this. After another neighbor demanded that someone to turn down their music. That someone later on started throwing rocks at my house.
The schizophrenic makes so much noise upstairs that my drunken downstairs troll of a neighbour (but like, half-troll, compared to the upstairs one) came banging on my door one night while I was sleeping.
This building sucks but I haven’t the money to move.
Oh and "can be unstable"? No. She is. Very much. I'm not calling her schizophrenic. She is. Like I know that for a fact, I was once in the pharmacy when she got her pills, I know about meds, and you can't really get much stronger schizophrenia medication without being in a hospital.
You'd think so, but the same inconsiderate morons that loudly blast music at all times of the day and night tend not to take constructive criticism very well.
Tried that with my neighbor once. It escalated until I was calling cops on him at 3:30 in the morning. People are shit and don't care until someone finally has enough and retaliates.
You vs a group of drunk, inadequate people, at night. What can go wrong?
hmmm ... what if your intorvert 🙁
What if my introvert?
what if hour introvert!
What if were introverted?
Can't always do that, for example in condo buildings. If they live in another building you may not be able to get into it at all, and often getting to different floors isn't possible.
Something something, part 15 of the FCC rules. Maybe don't do this.
Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
(1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and
(2) this device must accept any interference received
-back of every device, it seemed, in the 90s
Worse: in the 1980s, the FCC was convinced that personal computers were from the Devil and they forced 8-bit computer manufacturers to install these really heavy and bulky metal RF shields around the motherboards...for reasons.
So it only disrupted the speaker when it detected reggaeton?
So it wasn't the loud music early in the morning he objected to, he just thought his neighbor had shitty taste.
What's the legality of jamming wireless signals?
Very much illegal.
You won’t likely get caught doing it once or twice, but repeatedly doing it will get you a hefty fine and potentially even criminal charges.
Not to mention, imagine if your jamming prevents someone making an emergency call. Or if you disrupt emergency services.
Recording yourself doing it is just asking for trouble, like filming yourself going over twice the speed limit.
Yeah it's really bad news.
And chances are it will be investigated pretty quickly... you're likely to cause problems for more than just the next door neighbour's music. A friend of mine is a cellular radio technician and is occasionally tasked with identifying signal problems. Usually it's unintentional - some electronic device that isn't working properly, and they have tools to find the source relatively quickly and and order the owner to turn off and repair/destroy whatever is causing problems.
He said when nobody is home in the building that appears to be broadcasting noise, he will call the utility company and have them shut off power to the building to try to stop whatever is broadcasting.
If it's intentional... cops will be called.
neighbor plugs in aux cord, hack useless.
Next step: EMP!
Then you transition to this: https://lifehacker.com/silence-noisy-neighbors-by-transmitting-your-music-to-t-5852903
Everyone in here debating about the ethics of this situation, and here I am thinking, "What the fuck is 'Raggaeton'?"
One of the lucky 10,000?
Just open YouTube and type "Daddy Yankee". It's music that is pervasive throughout South America, it's very much the Latin American version of Hip Hop and Rap music.
Should have used a 3.5mm cable...
9am seems reasonable. Just hack it to set the max level volume at 20% or whatever is reasonable.
The ol stuxnet approach, if you make it subtle enough you might just get away with it
Not all heroes wear capes
So it’s like evil Shazam.
Beyond petty.
How does something like this actually intially grt reported on—did the neighbor call the police when his BlueTooth™️ wasnt working?
The maker shared his project online, he wasn't "caught". The article even links to the project.