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My doctor, and old horse, refused to give me beta blockers or other pills. Instead he said "Stop reading newspapers (yes, that was thing then) and drinking coffee. Come back in a couple months."

I did and boy, did it change my life for the better!

Trains, airplanes, helicopters & neighbours are my top 4.

I have tried suppressing sound with more sound over the years but that is not even 20% as efficient (for me). Now may recipe for relaxation is EarPods in, Noice canceling on, a song on repeat and Bob's your uncle! Better than retalin even.

And demos. Get an audience, setup a PI with Kismet, show the audience their phones are permanently broadcasting ALL the SSIDs their phones have ever connected to, enjoy the stunned faces.

Pick one phone's list of SSIDs (make sure you agreed with the "victim" that this is ok) and map the list of SSIDs with Wigle to locations.

No messing with GPSD, no tuning, absolutely nothing just supply power and you are ready to rock.

Additional benefit: you also detect cell towers & bluetooth if you wish to do so.

For extra good results, drive... slow... I use a scooter that allows me to comfortably drive 20km/h (15 in Freedoms) with a plastic case on the back with a handful of phones and can easily get about 80 / 90% of the SSIDs.

I VERY seldomly wiggle, am in the 600 - 700 range.

https://github.com/PurpleVsGreen/beacown

Fine documentation of the process and the (limitations of the) exploit.

Happens to many people who travel a lot.

Cover up, delay, cover up, delay, trickle some info, delay more, wait till people have changed roles, pretend there is no records, fail to remember, the list is endless.

Missing one point: take a couple of business cards from the hotel with you. Whenever you need to get back, it most often makes it easier for people (cab drivers) to get you there without too much discussion and misunderstandings.

Other points: - To be sure you have some clean water in your room, bring a few small water bottles. - Avoid the in house WiFi - Do not order room service - Have a family photo / familiar item on your bed stand, so that if you wake up in a panic, you know you are awake and in "your own room" - Don't invite people into your room - Personally I like to unpack, even it is for a short stay, since it make me feel more comfortable and less "on the run" - Give the cleaning people a decent tip (if they are allowed to accept it) on the first possible occasion and make it clear who you are and what your room number is, and what you expect from them (clean / leave alone etc.) - Use the in hotel services like shoe polishing, tip them well. These people know everything going on - Order cabs via the lobby - If possible, let the lobby pay your taxi when inbound

I do not miss traveling professionally.

For everything else I pick something that randomly comes to mind. Username here, loosely based on Get Shorty (the movie). I was probably watching that while registering at the time.

Location Contact info Identifiers Usage data

But it does looks very nice, so I am on the fence...

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity: Location Browsing History Usage Data Diagnostics

Which implies you want "me" back in the office to satisfy your social desires and NOT because of improved productivity.

You can have what you need, just not with me / your colleagues. But you seem not to want an alternative solution.

You can not seriously suggest that people who can do (and have done the last 2 years) their job remotely and want to keep doing that, come to the office to satisfy these... desires?

Why not get a job that gives that to you, naturally like a sales person or bartender or something.

Of course, if your coder already knows and does this, your last resort will be moving the DB closer to the app (the last 20% of optimisation).

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Many people will be there for the subject AND away from home so they are willing to talk your tech AND have time to spend time with you.

Sooner or later you will find the place that suits your needs, cultural, social and technical.

Pick one song I shazamed and poof, I get to listen to "random" "identical" songs for hours. A gem.

So I buy my tickets as long as possible before the draw, get to fantasise about what if and have a couple of weeks of happy, crazy dreams.

To me that is worth the 10 or so bucks, no matter the odds being so badly stack against me, I guess that is so for many people (who are not addicted to gambling).