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.

Oh shit lol, didn’t even catch that myself.

I’m not who you asked for context.

You even took the time to edit this comment and didn’t check who you were replying to?

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.

Man, I love the internet.

“I’m going to place your statement in a clearly uninetended context, extrapolate further hypothetical events from there, and then admonish you for your statement no longer being reasonable in that completely hypothetical situation!”

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.

ELITE? Really, of all the things to name it?

Well I guess they know who they’re marketing to.

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.

Anyone have any reccomendations for a decently priced IR camera that isn’t dependent on a phone app? Don’t want something that will just stop working because the manufacturer can’t be bothered to keep updating the app later on.

Similarly, Jerboa tries to make @indie-ver.se in the post body into a link to a user profile and also stops at the hyphen.

Everyone knows the warnings on paint thinner is because the illuminati doesn’t want us to know how to open our fourth eye.

Sponsorblock does a good job skipping in video sponsored segments.

It’s been more than fice years since I touched it, but it didm’t work too great for me.

My problem with it is that it requires you to set it all up. The tasks, frequency, chains, point values, etc. I was always second guessing my settings, and it’s very easy to make it too easy.

You have to want it to work, and not want to metagame the gamification of your todo list. That gets harder when you look at the social aspects of it and see all the people with high scores and such who absolutely are metagaming the system instead of just using it as a habit aid.

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.

Was there anything at all that helped?

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

there is then zero switching cost outside

Tell me again how you’ve never supported an email service migration. I’m delighted that you haven’t, but it’s obvious.

Also, I love when people pull a “draw the rest of the owl” with tech they’ve never been up in the guts of.

Emails also come in standardized formats that can be downloaded and transferred to a new provider, too.

Oh, you sweet sweet thing. I remember when I believed that technical specs were reliable and things were interoperable because documentation said they were.

I can still see their tears.

Maybe it truly is that easy with other providers to switch from one to another, but Outlook, and especially the Exchange backend underneath (both the effectively discontinued self-hosted server version and the Azure-managed Exchange Online) are a special kind of jank.

There isn’t a special layer or kind of hell for whoever designed it. There isn’t even a specific hell in and of itself.

Whatever exists after death for the designers of Outlook and Exchange is something so much worse than hell that it’s categorically different from anything able to be conceptualized by humans. We don’t have words to even begin to describe the gulf between comprehendable human thought and what awaits for them.

The change to “Microsoft 365” has been the case for years now. I had hoped the context made it clear that this was regarding the claim they had changed the name to Copilot.

Edit: Since there’s nothing that goes together quite like Linux enthusiasts and pedanticness, here’s a correction-

Microsoft split off a subscription based version of their Office suite of programs a number of years ago, calling it Microsoft Office 365. They maintained more standard non-subscription versions for a few years alongside 365, while very clearly trying to push people to the subscription model.

After that, they stopped releasing new standard versions, leaving Microsoft Office 365 (the subscription) as the only option for ongoing support.

After that after that, they renamed Microsoft Office 365 to just Microsoft 365, although the Office branding/tagline/wording is still present in a number of places (just not on office.com itself, apparently).

One of the 365 license options allows for access to only the webapp versions of the suite instead of the native program versions. Apparently they offered a “Microsoft Office App” specifically for users on this license that would simply link to the webapp versions of the suite.

This “Microsoft Office App” that served as a link to the webapps is what has been renamed to Copilot whatever the fuck, not the suite of webapps and native programs themselves. That remains named Microsoft (Office) 365.

Microsoft’s original and horribly misleading blog post that started this shit here.

The Verge’s article laying things out more clearly and featuring direct statements from an M$ exec to The Verge trying to clarify things here.

I sure hope that’s true, but I’ve seen more companies switch to lower cost licenses with restrictions like only being able to use the webapp than I have seen switch to LibreOffice.

As long as Microsoft keeps offering ways to easily disable the shit nobody asked for in corporare environments/deployments I’m afraid the stranglehold will persist.

I would have hoped the context made it clear that I’m talking about the claim they renamed it to Copilot.

Nothing “half right” about it, but thanks for the pedanticness I guess.

Edit: Since there’s nothing that goes together quite like Linux enthusiasts and pedanticness, here’s a correction-

Microsoft split off a subscription based version of their Office suite of programs a number of years ago, calling it Microsoft Office 365. They maintained more standard non-subscription versions for a few years alongside 365, while very clearly trying to push people to the subscription model.

After that, they stopped releasing new standard versions, leaving Microsoft Office 365 (the subscription) as the only option for ongoing support.

After that after that, they renamed Microsoft Office 365 to just Microsoft 365, although the Office branding/tagline/wording is still present in a number of places (just not on office.com itself, apparently).

One of the 365 license options allows for access to only the webapp versions of the suite instead of the native program versions. Apparently they offered a “Microsoft Office App” specifically for users on this license that would simply link to the webapp versions of the suite.

This “Microsoft Office App” that served as a link to the webapps is what has been renamed to Copilot whatever the fuck, not the suite of webapps and native programs themselves. That remains named Microsoft (Office) 365.

Microsoft’s original and horribly misleading blog post that started this shit here.

The Verge’s article laying things out more clearly and featuring direct statements from an M$ exec to The Verge trying to clarify things here.

That was horrendously misleading clickbait.

The changed the name of some stupid as shit “app” that only exists to open links to the Office programs on the web as webapps, which was apparently called “Microsoft Office App”. They did not change the name of Microsoft Office.

Simultaneously not as bad, but even dumber.

Edit: Since there’s nothing that goes together quite like Linux enthusiasts and pedanticness, here’s a correction-

Microsoft split off a subscription based version of their Office suite of programs a number of years ago, calling it Microsoft Office 365. They maintained more standard non-subscription versions for a few years alongside 365, while very clearly trying to push people to the subscription model.

After that, they stopped releasing new standard versions, leaving Microsoft Office 365 (the subscription) as the only option for ongoing support.

After that after that, they renamed Microsoft Office 365 to just Microsoft 365, although the Office branding/tagline/wording is still present in a number of places (just not on office.com itself, apparently).

One of the 365 license options allows for access to only the webapp versions of the suite instead of the native program versions. Apparently they offered a “Microsoft Office App” specifically for users on this license that would simply link to the webapp versions of the suite.

This “Microsoft Office App” that served as a link to the webapps is what has been renamed to Copilot whatever the fuck, not the suite of webapps and native programs themselves. That remains named Microsoft (Office) 365.

Microsoft’s original and horribly misleading blog post that started this shit here.

The Verge’s article laying things out more clearly and featuring direct statements from an M$ exec to The Verge trying to clarify things here.