any
even small wrist watches ticking in another side of room, eg when i asleep, everything is silent, THEY TICKING A LOT
any fcking car sound
etc I HATE ALL NOISES especially my parents voices and noises what they making
i am basically 24/7 in sensory overloads, i hate so much bright light, when sunsets, parents fcking turning on main room light, I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE ssososoososo much
OK since nobody has said it yet. How everything has a goddamn LED in it to show its on or off or disconnected or whatever.
I hate how I have to put eletrical tape over all my device lights so I can get some peace at night.
Edit: shit this thread is specifically about noises, not general annoyances. I do not retract my statement however.
Count your lucky stars you cannot hear LED’s.
I can. My hearing is extremely sensitive.
I’ve gone through the effort to set up smart plugs for most of my devices, to turn off automatically, for no other reason than eliminating the buzz.
That is actually pretty interesting! Are you sure it is the LEDs that you can hear? I would probably lean towards the mains 50Hz buzz being heard by you due to internal transformers
Depends; I’m a lot older now and deaf (but have tinnitus, yay) in one ear, but I could hear the flyback whine of old TVs. I can hear the odd switching regulator still, but most these days are switching waaaaay above even the best human hearing range.
50/60Hz buzz should be fairly rare these days except for some high power cases or some really poorly designed electronics.
I could hear the flyback whine of old TVs
Man, I hated that sound. A lot of computer monitors had it too before they switched to LED/LCD displays.
It’s without a doubt the LED’s themselves. Moving closer to the exact location of the LED confirms it.
For some cheap products, I’ve physically cut one side of the LED pin to shut it up, and the buzzing stops.
Though technically it could be the sound of a capacitor charging/discharging or the resistors, not exactly sure on the exact mechanism, but it’s at the very least something on the LED circuit.
Encouragement to do a double blind test on this one; box up some LED’s with a power strip, one on and one off, have the person who set them randomize which are on and then you guess which (neither, R, L, both). Repeat a few times.
I know similar experiences aren’t predictive, the sound is a kind of synesthesia with the concept of running electronics (which is itself pretty cool/interesting!).
A double blind would mean no results are discovered lol.
A single blind test would be fine.
And yes, I’ve done this. I’ve turned away from a device, and my partner either toggled a switch powering thw device, or a switch which wasn’t connected to anything.Perfect accuracy.
Edit: I replied when i first woke up. I didn’t read carefully.
Neat experiment idea but I don’t have a tools for that lol.
If I ever do, I’ll pin this message and reply to it :p
Oof. I hear cheap charging blocks, LEDs would suck
Charging is hit or miss for me, my USB-A > USB-C outlets are silent, but I can hear the buzz from USB-C > USB-C
…wow, you just reminded me that i used to hear LEDs, too: i’d totally forgotten about that…anyway, i can vouch that commuting a couple of hours every day in a top-down roadster for twenty years makes the problem go away; heck, the tinnitus even drowns out a lot of electronic-feedback clicks and beeps which are supposed to be audible…
Literally the only good thing about my hearing loss is I don’t have to deal with this sort of thing anymore. I used to be able to hear myself blink if the room was quiet enough. I used to get my hearing tested regularly to make sure my meds weren’t damaging it and I could hear both higher and significantly lower sounds than humans are supposed to hear. Now that one ear is basically shot they don’t care anymore about testing
I’m kinda the opposite—I miss functional LEDs on things. I miss disk activity light the most, but there’s many things that have no indication as to whether they’re even on or connected. Overly bright LEDs are a problem tho
Blue LEDs are the absolute worst. I have to keep my bedroom door shut to sleep at night because the LED clock display on my stove is so goddamn bright it lights up the whole house.
I hate how I have to put eletrical tape over all my device lights so I can get some peace at night.
This was at its worst when blue LEDs were new. Everybody wanted to show how cool they were and used a blue LED, but they were the brightest lights imaginable.
Like, just a hint, if your indicator light actually casts shadows on my wall at night, it’s too bright.
YES, especially when they’re overly bright for their intended purpose. Notify bright, ok. Pin hole sized LED bright enough to light up an entire room at night, NOT OK.
I was part of a “focus group” just some random people that my friend and his team asked questions to about some humidifier or something, I genuinely don’t remember and he was shocked when I said I didn’t want ANY LED lights on the product and he’s like “how will you know it’s on??” On a product that would absolutely make noise while running. We compromised and I told him a completely hidden LED under the product, as long as it had no light leaks would be acceptable.
I have an air purifier and one of the amazing things about it that they haven’t actually advertised is that there is a button you can press to make all the LEDs go off. I just bought the best one in my price range, but if they put that feature on the box I’d have gone right for it.
hitting the upvote so hard and then seeing the community
hmmmmm
Welcome
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link aggregators ideally do it in the other way around… Upvotes are supposed to reflect how well the content fits the community, acting as democratic curation. i’m well aware how idealistic this is.
(the word aggregator sounds it like should be an animal, like a distant cousin of an alligator)
Easily the assholes on motorbikes who go out of their way to be as noisy as possible and cause a whole row of houses to vibrate tangibly.
At my last place I used to wake up 2-3 times a night from this.
Oof, phuck!
A couple years ago, we had a downstairs apartment neighbor with a fast and very loud motorcycle, that he would literally park inside his apartment, and he’d make a point to rev it up right when he returned or left from his front door…
I confronted him, from a slight distance from our front balcony (he stayed on ground level). Anyways, I kinda lied to him, but not very rude, but I firmly spoke…
“Sir, we’d appreciate if you wouldn’t rev your motorcycle up like that, it’s scaring our dog.”
That motherfucker had the nerve to threaten me, but I stood behind my words, with witnesses around no less. The lie, for whatever reason, the sound actually didn’t scare our dog, but that was my lie, and I was sticking to it.
Well guess what? Within less than a month, apparently one of the other neighbors had that asshole evicted… 👍
I’ll never understand this. Motorcycles are fantastic vehicles (fossil fuel issues aside) – they’re agile, fast, and exhilarating. But none of that enjoyment comes from the noise they make; removing your muffler is purely a selfish, “look at me!” exercise.
There’s a saying in the motorcycle community: “loud pipes save lives”. In other words, cars only notice motorcycles when they can hear them.
Personally, I think that was often used as an excuse for having an obnoxiously loud motorcycle. But, I’ve also seen first-hand how oblivious drivers are. I think Harleys are stupid. They’re a way to get middle-aged dentists to part with their money and to make them feel bad-ass. But, I think that annoying sound does mean that they get noticed, which probably helps keep them alive. I’m convinced that there are riders who have died on electric motorcycles because a car turned into them because the driver never looked to see if there was anything there.
I think you’re on the money here, both in that “loud pipes save lives” is a poor excuse for unreasonably loud bikes – since it’s the use of the throttle as a kind of soft horn in traffic that achieves this effect, and that’s possible with virtually any ICE motorcycle – and that this isn’t possible with electric bikes, which adds a risk. In either case, it doesn’t serve as a defense for increasing the volume of regular motorcycles.
I think the argument is that it acts as a sort of “passive horn”. That merely by being near a car you’ll be noticed if you have a motorcycle with loud pipes.
It’s somewhat true of all ICE motorcycles. They’re not silent. But, are they loud enough to wake a driver up out of a daze and cause them to notice the bike?
An electric motorcycle won’t be noticed at all through the noise it makes. It might not be that different from a properly silenced ICE bike.
In any case, it’s sad that we’re in a situation where a driver whose brain isn’t engaged with what’s going on around him can kill a motorcyclist through inattention.
Changing my motorcycle exhaust was purely for performance for me. I hate how loud it is but the stock one was so corked up the engine was choking
I hate that microwaves have to beep like R2-D2 everytime you push a fucking button. I was in a crappy hotel room once, and in that room was a microwave from the '90s. That thing had an analog timer and dials and physical buttons and shit. No crappy capacitive touch sensors. It was amazing. Every microwave should be like that. Oh, and when the food was done you heard a ding (LIKE A FUCKING BELL!) and that was the only sound it made aside from the ooooooooooooo sound of the thing. It was amazing. I still long for a microwave like that one.
I’ve seen a few newer models that have a silence mode. If you have a newer microwave you may want to look into it.
Yeah, but nothing will beat that old fossil. It truly was the perfect microwave.
I’ve silenced my microwave and I’ve never looked back!!
I haven’t had a microwave in a decade and have zero regrets. Every now and then it would be handy, but it’s really not a necessity.
Random douchebags roaring through the streets in their modded cars, especially after lights out. Don’t even get me started on the folks who do that and crank up their stereos all the way blasting music.
As a random douchebag who cranks their stereo and roars through the street in my modded car, I apologize. I can’t help it, I’m 37 but I still love loud music and driving fast.
That said, I’m not an inconsiderate random douchebag; I turn down the subwoofer and stay out of redline in residential areas. I also didn’t cheap out on the exhaust. I got me a proper resonated catback, not a $200 fart can that drones on at 95dB even when idling. If you drive normally it purrs softly like a kitty cat. You’ll only hear me is I want you to. And once again I apologize for all the random douchebags who do burnouts in cul-de-sacs and crank the shittiest hip hop in existence at 3AM while you try to sleep.
I feel we should be allowed to catch these drivers, strap them to a chair at ear level of their idiotic car and have it run full throttle in their ear until the gas runs out.
That along with obnoxiously loud motorcycles tops the list for me.
Should be confiscated on sight (sound?) and tossed into a portable metal crusher.
Any noise that I don’t know is an immediate problem for me. If I don’t know what it is and I can hear it, I absolutely have to stop what I’m doing and find out. I can’t convince myself to stop this because it’s actually led me to detecting leaky pipes in my house twice now, right as they broke.
Also the sound of cotton balls rubbing together. Horrendous. And coil whine of electronics, that’s awful too. As is just the sound of electricity in general, like fluorescent lights make an awful noise. I’m gonna stop here before this becomes a novel.
You sound like me. Recently my girlfriend and I moved. One day while packing, my girlfriend came downstairs and I heard a loud-ish hissing upstairs. She had no idea what I was talking about and didn’t notice it at all. I ran upstairs to check on it and it turns out she had packed some things tightly on top of some cleaning supplies. If it were up to her, the entire bottle of Lysol would’ve sprayed out and destroyed a lot of things in that box. I prevented that. So yeah I’m totally with you, noticing sounds that don’t make immediate sense can save you trouble and it could also save your life, so as maddening as it can be it’s also very useful and I won’t try to stop noticing these sounds.
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I feel the same way. I’m always “overreacting” no matter how much trouble or risk I avoid by reacting. It’s pretty exhausting.
Umm, the sound of cotton balls rubbing together bothers you?
Do you live in a soundproof chamber? What is the frequency range of your hearing?
I literally just tried exactly that, and I can’t hear a damn thing unless the cotton balls are like 2 inches or less from my ear, and even then it’s rather quiet and not bothersome…
It’s almost like people on the autism spectrum have different sensory experiences or something.
One of my sensory tortures is the feeling of cotton balls being torn apart. I think my brain registers it as a sound, but as you’ve said, there doesn’t seem to be a sound. thinkymeat is so dumb.
Never had my hearing tested but I can say anecdotally that many times I have been at work listening to music from my computer and had people walk up to me to talk to, which leads to me saying “let me pause my music” and them to respond “what music?” I often have the volume on everything that has controllable volume as low as I can possibly set it.
I very often hear things no one else does, to the point people think I’m insane because I’m absolutely hearing it but no one else can so they don’t believe me.
My wife is the same way with cotton balls and cotton pads. She will not touch them or be near anyone using them. She recently bought reusable makeup remover cotton rounds thinghy things which made makeup removal much easier for her.
She’s always been like that, and we only recently discovered she most likely have autism.
My partner got me a GPU a while back (oh my god I looked it up and it was ten years ago aaaaaaaaa) that was an incredible deal for its power, but had a TON of reports of coil whine. I was delighted to hear nothing from it the first few days of playing! Then it promptly died. To death. To shreds, even. ah well, it happens, better now than out of return period. I sent it back for a replacement and got another one, TERRIFIED its replacement would be an auditory nightmare after being lucky the first time.
I got lucky the second time, and it still works to this day!
I feel you on that one. Cotton balls don’t bother me, but I know that’s a nightmare for my mum. That and just the idea of
The Idea that some might not wanna think about
chewing tin foil
(I’m sorry to put that in anyone’s head if that bothers them oh god lemme spoiler that just in case) bothers her a ton but doesn’t really hit for me.
Electronic sounds can be a nightmare. I love CRTs but I can’t be around many of them because they hit my brain in The Bad Spot. One tiny benefit to my tinnitus is I’ve found a few CRTs that seem to have a similar/the same frequency so I can be around them when they’re on!
Babies or toddlers crying is one of the big reasons I won’t be a parent. My reaction to the noise is incredibly intense and I pretty much lose all sense of thought past getting away from the noise any way possible. People most of my life be like “nobody likes it get over yourself / you get used to it / it’s worth it”. No Susan you don’t understand how badly I’d neglect a child to get away from that noise, it’ll create a feedback loop, and I refuse to do that to a kid. Thankfully in my thirties now and people have for the most part finally stopped trying to convince me otherwise
Its not just the crying for me, its those random shrieks of delight that also get me, especially in supermarkets with all that noise and light reflecting surfaces
There are many reasons I never had children, but the crying would have been a special kind of torture
Yeah, big same. Most noises I can tolerate even though they bother me, but baby cries elicit a similar visceral reaction as what you’re describing. Part of why I hate public transport.
I don’t like kids so I can relate
Most annoying noise is my phone alarm in the morning.
Why did we build a society where we must wake up and drive away from our homes full of love and beauty at the maximum legal speed every day?
I am not autistic, but I have pretty severe misophonia. Sand paper is the worst. Just thinking about it is uncomfortable.
Yeah, sandpaper is rough
Gadamyu.
Reluctantly upvoted.
Polystyrene. Everything about it is terrible, it makes a horrible squeaking noise.
most high pitched squeals
For the past several months, in my neighborhood, there is a periodic very low frequency thumping sound. Imagine a chopper motorcycle idling, but lower frequency and very distant. It comes, lasts about 20 minutes, and then stops. I’ve only heard from one other person in the neighborhood who has noticed it.
Closing the windows does nothing because it’s such a low frequency. Also, because it’s a low frequency, it sounds the same whether inside or outside, and it’s impossible to figure out which direction it’s coming from. I usually miss it during the day, but at night, if I hear it I can’t get to sleep until it stops.
I like it when my cat beeps and makes noises.
Don’t put it in reverse then.
Honestly…the discord notification or my phone vibrating.
When you’re busy with something but the crew starts a back and forth in the group chat and it just keeps going off.
There should be a setting that only sends a notification once from the same channel over a set period of time.
I find I simultaneously want them to stfu but also know everything they’re saying.
Its not the notification sound mind you. Its the sound of the phone vibrating against whatever its resting on.
The key for me is, set notifications for DMs and @s only.
Don’t need to be getting pinged for channel messages.
I have a super low tolerance for distracting noises so I deadass turned discord message sound off.
Phone goes brrr
Everything annoys me, notifications, kids making noises, my own kids making noises, the sound of an extractor fan whilst im trying to shit in peace… getting older is mad. Explains all the grumpy old men.
I don’t have kids so this might not work for you, but for me getting a nice pair of noise cancelling headphones has been a real godsend. They were a little pricey but being able to just have a silent bubble you can turn on whenever you want is great. They also completely cancel out the background sound of being on a plane.
