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Developer working on speaker updates has neighbour with soundboks speakers turned up to 11 day and night

> I've been playing tunes to groups of people as the sun goes down

Or is fed up with loud music while trying to enjoy sunset at the beach.

Typical developers, spending months to solve it technically when you could just go over to the person and ask them to lower the volume/turn off the music.

Yeah, but your protocol is typically met with "Request denied, fuck off nerd" response. I said typically because I've had some sporadic success with kindly requesting lowering the volume, but it was sporadic. People who would turn down the music don't typically bother other people in the first place.

Works differently in different places and with different places I guess. In my life, I've probably asked around 30 people to turn down the volume when we've been in nature (parks, wilderness, beaches, mountains) and people played music, only remember once a person who refused to lower it. But this has mostly been in West/South Europe and around in South America, maybe people react differently where you live.

> Works differently in different places and with different places I guess.

Exactly this. It also depends on social skills of the one requesting turning down. Maybe most of the times I skipped even trying to ask because I thought situation was hopeless, someone would actually turn volume down, but in my life I think I didn't even have 30 situations like this. I live in a place where it's rather quiet and poeple just don't push out loud music for long periods. If they do, it's rather sporadic and they try to respect social norms. I also know that I should not be an ass and let other people have fun, that helps too.

Maybe the onus shouldn't be on people to request the music be turned off, but on people not blasting loud music in public nature spaces in the first place?

This is just the kid on the bus/train playing music on his phone speaker. Wear headphones or play the music at a noise/distance that doesn't disturb others.

I agree, everyone should just be perfect and in harmony with everyone else, all the time. That should be the goal at least.

But alas, we live in the real world. Sometimes people act in ways we don't like, and we can (and should) talk to them in that case, worst thing that can happen is that they say "No thank you" and then we either deal with that or leave.

worst case, they shoot you

Lol, yeah, if you're unfortunate enough to live in the US I guess that's possible. Luckily, only 4% of the worlds population live in the US, so the rest of us 96% usually don't go around being worried about getting shot.

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