I don’t make it a habit to check, but it has been fun to check and call out in precisely two scenarios.

• One user and I deep into a sub thread on a multiple day old post arguing about ettiquette here. Was weird to get multiple downvotes on those sorts of comments. They were using their “abandoned” alts.

• Another thread where I had repeatedly asked someone to share the source for their claim despite them insisting that I just wasn’t googling right. I offered them to edit literally every comment (multiple thousand) on this account to sing their praises. Downvoted with no response.

In moderation. Everyone needs a way to lazily recharge. But make no mistake that even though it’s engaging, it’s only better for you than mindless content consumption by very thin margins.

Lol, wow. You just keep going deeper.

I’m teasing you a little about the clear chip on your shoulder, but I’m completely serious about the fact that you are broadcasting that chip loudly and that it’s a you problem.

You immediately jumping to the conclusion that anyone ever making a complaint about noisy neghbors is in the wrong is ridiculous. Then your further insistence that anyone complaining about it that wants something done has to be calling for eviction or arrest is even more ridiculous.

Most people just want to be able to be in their house without hearing a domestic dispute through the walls, or without being able to make out exactly what songs their neighbor is listening to for multiple hours every day. The goal is to get that to stop, or at least lessen. The solution to achieve that is “whatever it takes, starting with the reasonable options”.

If, after multiple polite conversations, and maybe even some not so polite ones, the neighbor continues or escalates? The loud neighbor has then chosen the severity of the solution by denying the reasonable ones. If you’ve had a neighbor talk to you about your noise repeatedly, then you were the problem, not them.

You can get a sheet of pads to make cabinets and doors more quiet for like $5. You can wear headphones for your music.

Personally, like I said in my last comment, I wouldn’t escalate past talking to them and the landlord. Historically I’ve lived in complexes large enough that a noisy person could be moved to another unit if the landlord had recieved a ton of complaints, which would be my hope from the landlord at the absolute most absurd extreme. If nothing changed, I’d live with it and curse about it a lot. Probably bang on the wall on egregious occasions. Maybe blast something worse back right up against the wall rarely.

Rage? I’m not upset. You seem to be really invested in this though. I was being somewhat flippant in my last comment about the problem likely being you if you’ve somehow been the target of multiple noise complaints or if you’ve somehow known multiple people who would want someone evicted for a basic noise compaint, but this really is coming across as something personal for you.

The only person who mentioned eviction is you. And OP clearly isn’t calling the cops on their neighbors, otherwise the landlord saying they needed a police report wouldn’t be anywhere as much of a problem.

If a polite conversation doesn’t work, and a not so polite conversation doesn’t work, and the landlord stepping in doesn’t work, then we’re all adults and can just be increasingly passive agressive.

That’s cool, because you willfully misinterpreted OP to start with.

The obvious implication with what they’re saying is people doing it egregiously.

“Someone who likes slamming things” doesn’t usually mean people just using their shit reasonably, it’s also not “literally all my neighbors slam things all the time and I have no concept that the cabinets just might be shit in every unit”.

It’s talking about an outlier.

There’s more room to interpret “or who plays loud music” as maybe referring to someone doing a one off thing, but that’s borderline taking OP in bad faith.

There are absolutely people who rant about gnat farts, but if you’ve encountered any significant amount, I’d suggest you’re probably a lot louder than you think you’re being.

You don’t have to store them in intune, as far as I know. I’m not a desktop engineer, but I know at my workplace they historically are stored in AD.

“Made a hobo CEO? You won’t believe what happens next!”

As evidence: How the fuck is a company as big as Microsoft letting their CEO keep making such embarassing public statements? How the fuck has he not been forced into more public speaking training by the board?

This is like the 4th “gaffe” of his since the start of the year!

You don’t usually need “social permission” to do something good. Mentioning that is at best, publicly stating that you think you know what’s best for society (and they don’t). I think the more direct interpretation is that you’re openly admitting you’re doing the type of thing that you should have asked permission for, but didn’t.

This is past the point of open desperation.

Initially connect when the target isn’t home, as a number of speakers make a distinct “startup” noise when a device connects.

After that, bear in mind that most bluetooth speakers have a small delay before they play audio, and this often means that the first second or so of audio will be cut off. Unless you use another app to keep a constant silent noise playing. The silence being sent as audio to play effectively “warms up” the speaker so the cut off portion is during the silence, not the actual noise you want. Some speakers need this silence to be infintessimally quiet static, as they’ll just drop pure silence. Pretty sure there’s an app on F-Droid for this.

You wouldn’t want your friend to only hear part of the chirp after all.

Also, most devices with a screen have a way to display the name of what device is connected. This especially applies to casting to screens. Name your phone something generic for safety.

Was there anything at all that helped?

Sounds frustratingly similar to something I’ve been dealing with.

There have also been a rash recently of newly created accounts making 3-10 posts to comics comms and then bouncing (deleting the account or just not doing anything else).

Last.fm is probably the closest thing functionality-wise to what you’re looking for as far as reccomendations go.

You can “scrobble” or log what you’ve listened to or enjoyed from a metric ton of sources, and reccomendations are based off the user community and tagging. Covers popular to underground and everything in between.

Not sure what the whole “federated” part of this adds to anything.

Anime and Altered Carbon?

You might like Ghost in the Shell. There’s a handful of different movies and timelines, but I think the anime show Stand Alone Complex is a good entry point. For that continuity, after SAC is SAC 2nd Gig, then the movie Solid State Society, and finally the recent Netflix CG show SAC_2045.

Cyberpunk future, although not as gritty as Altered Carbon or Cyberpunk 2077. This trailer gives a good idea of the action scenes, but the show isn’t mainly about that, instead more about the psychological themes. Story follows a cyborg special forces group in the Japanese Government. Lots of side plots about stuff like privacy and being able to trust your senses when hackers can hijack your eyes, what does conciousness and self mean when someone can literally shove their brain in a self sustaining VR box effectively forever, at what point does AI reach personhood, when brains can be fully digitized and be treated as data how do you ensure abscence of tampering, how do you even begin to handle people that opt into a gestalt existence, and more. The idea of self is a core thing repeatedly. Main plot of Stand Alone Complex is some wide reaching thing about corporations and billionaires holding critical medical knowledge hostage from the public and a specific hacker fighting to get the info out.

Speaking of Cyberpunk 2077, go watch Edgerunners if you haven’t yet. The dub is great, but I can’t find that trailer dubbed. If you’re even remotely aware of the videogame or the tabletop you know the kind of thing to expect. Gritty, dark. Starts about a year and a half before the game, ends around half a year before. Holy shit, nothing I could say would do it justice and it’s best to go in blind. Just… be prepared to hurt. There are no happy endings in Night City.

If you’re up for a little less cyberpunk but still heady sci-fi future, give Psycho-Pass a try. Hard to find a good trailer for this one, the dub is fine but I was only able to find a decent subtitled trailer. The world is one of near omnipresent surveillance by “the sybil system” which can analyze a person’s mental state to detect criminal intent before it happens. MC is a fresh graduate who has just started her job as a police detective, and has to adapt quickly to the reality that detective work is no longer true investigation, but mostly using the reports from the system together with using a troop of people flagged as criminals by that system to hunt down the other potential criminals. Of course cracks in the surveillance and the system itself begin to show pretty quickly, even before someone starts fucking with it for fun. First season is the best and works very well as a standalone thing. The movie and other seasons aren’t bad, just not as good.

If you just want some good anime without the cyberpunk elements, Cowboy Bebop is universally considered a classic. Great great stuff. Struggling bounty hunters just trying to make ends meet as their pasts eventually catch up with them through background details episode to episode. Heavy jazz influence and wonderful jazz soundtrack. You’re gonna carry that weight.

If you only pick one, go with Edgerunners, if you pick two, add Bebop. Edgerunners is a short show, I think 12 eps. Bebop is 25 episodes (and a movie technically between I think episode 23 and 24, but it came out years later and isn’t needed for the overall plot).

I don’t get why these lazy one-off text replacement extensions keep making “tech news”. You can do this shit easily with a short userscript, and there are plenty of extensions for practically every browser that let you set your own text replacement settings. No need for individual extensions for each.

• slams -> literally disintegrates the bloodline of
• keyboard -> leopard
• cloud -> butt
• microsoft -> microslop
• 

There’s always plenty of garbage on Steam and itch.io

Lol, Palantir doesn’t care remotely enough to make an excuse like that. They’re openly proud of what they do.

Not feeling any empathy is horrible, but feeling absolutely god awful about things you can’t do shit about isn’t exactly a virtue.

Just like many people already have it.

And there it is. This is a not so thinly veiled post being highly judgemental about people on anti-depressants and the like.

As you’ve identified:

I’m sure that what me caring does to my mental state is far worse than however good is anything it does to anyone else.

So… if it’s not helping anything, and arguably harming yourself, what is the point?

I promise you that it is possible to be aware of these horrible things going on, accepting that you cannot do anything about them, minimizing of the negative impact on your own emotions and mental state… and to be able to move on with your own life and enjoy what there is to enjoy around you. All at once.

That isn’t a “lack of caring”, it sure as hell isn’t fucking ignorance. I honestly take quite a bit of offense at that.

It’s basic acceptance of what you can and cannot change. The relatively recent idea that if you aren’t emotionally distraught about world events then you don’t care is one of the most toxic and damaging to mental health things in recent time.

Some people will call it stoicism, but it’s not even going that far.

This whole idea of “I have to stay aware of all the suffering in the world, and I have to have strong feelings about all of it!” is just “thoughts and prayers” with a whole bunch of extra steps that people often use as justification to look down upon others who don’t stay as up to date, or who don’t get as emotionally invested.

So to answer your question, no. I wouldn’t take pills that work as you describe.

Thankfully, that’s not how anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medication fucking work! (Unless you’re on far too high a dose or perhaps on anti-psychotics instead)

Now that’s what I call shitposting!

That gives me vague ideas for a fun short story: The AI “revolution” has occurred, but due to training data issues it’s all optimizing for some random specific boring schlub. Harold from Oklahoma or something.

Had to argue my case to the transit overseer AI about how me getting to work is vital for Harold’s quality of life again. So fucking demeaning.

Harold posted something to social media 15 years ago about having a bad experience at the restaurant chain I worked at. Overseer shut the while chain down and now we’re all on the run from enforcers that want to kidnap and make us personally apologize to him. I worked on the other side of the country.

Trying to get a new car but all that’s on the market are ridiculous scaled up hotwheels the guy liked as a kid, a shitbox he made teenage memories in, or some generic suburbanite thing that lasted him the longest.

New fashion trend: White t-shirt and green plaid boxers are out, jeans and a grey t-shirt are in!