[–] 1 point 20 minutes ago

Easy.

If you want to annoy them, tell them you have the most powerful wifi router in existence, exceeding legal emission limits.

If you want to "play nice", tell them you set your wifi to minimum (or even disabled it if you want).

The upside is that you don't have to actually do anything for either to work.

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  • [–] 1 point 29 minutes ago

    So while there is a risk associated with resting your nuts directly on certain very high power radio transmitters, the noise and nausea are something different. Without getting pedantic, electricity and magnesium basically cause each other and sometimes it lines up with resonant frequencies in a device and cause it to physically vibrate in an audible way. This is why electronic devices with no moving parts can hum. This leads into how some sound can mess with people, sometimes even when they can’t hear it (infra sounds from data centers and such). I have experienced this too, most memorably when I went to a restaurant with my then girlfriend and her family. One of the tvs was whistling really loudly but at a pitch so high nobody else could hear it. She and I could clearly hear dog whistles and she was practically crying by the time we convinced her dad to go to a different place. I felt like there was an ice pick getting screwed into my head. People associate the device with the discomfort and don’t recognize the actual mechanism behind it.

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  • [–] 1 point 45 minutes ago

    I'm not a carpenter, just a stupid homeowner. Learning how to bend hinges to fix problem doors was life changing. Especially in an older house that has shifted over time.

    It's tricky to explain. Fortunately there are videos online that show how it works.

    Anyway, I know that's not the same thing as hanging a door. That's much more involved.

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  • There's a house in my neighborhood that doesn't even have stairs leading to the front door. Like, the door is three feet in the air, no way to actually use it for anything except breaking your ankle while drinking at night.

    It is a good way to keep the Jehovah's Witness and the Mormons at bay, to be fair.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Funny story: I built the staircase heading up to my loft, and spent days sourcing the perfect planks for the risers so I'd have exactly 13 steps.

    Forgot to account for the loft's floorboards and beams, now I have a 13.25-step staircase.

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  • No being louder just increases the number of neighbors who's networks you slow not how slow they get. Your old rounter will stop talking for a random interval if it hears anyone else talking so it wouldn't completely jam anyone. Furthermore your immediate neighbors would probably switch to a different channel. If you got lots of routers on all the different channels and a ton of random devices connected to them sending data you could really slow things down. WiFi slows with congestion. Being louder increases the range you congest.

    If it worked the way you described WiFi in apartment buildings strait up wouldn't work. Which admittedly WiFi in appartment buildings doesn't work well.

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