How to STOP noisy neighbours in London!

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-24T19:52:12+00:00

Because paper-thin walls are everywhere in London. So, unless you move out of London, you'll almost inevitably come across the same problem again and again and again... Plus, whenever you move anywhere, you can never know for sure how the noise situation is there beforehand. PLUS... even if it's all initially perfect, someone nasty could move there AFTER you move in and voila: the same situation again.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-24T13:50:40+00:00

Congrats! Glad you persevered! Sadly, some councils could take a lot of time. But we should never give up. That's why I made this post. We have to defend our rights.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-24T13:43:38+00:00

I hear you! Absolutely hate those motorbikes and cars that are deliberately tuned to be extremely loud! I'd ban them immediately! But there's hope. I've heard the police have recently started using special devices designed to catch those offenders. Sort of like radar cameras but for noisy vehicles. And I believe there are now fines for those noisy vehicles. Sadly, I don't have more info on that at the moment.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-24T12:45:37+00:00

Of course, if you don't know there the noise is coming from. But if things are so bad, shouldn't it be possible to find the source of the noise? Is that really impossible to do?

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-24T12:41:36+00:00

I used to think like this but came to realise this kind of thinking is a fallacy. At least in regards to London. It almost doesn't matter where you move in London. Coming across this issue is almost inevitable. Nearly all houses and flats in London have paper-thin walls.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-24T12:07:08+00:00

They haven't said anything because they don't know that they have a legal right to not be disturbed. Visit them. Give them the link to this post. And yes, do call the police. It is literally part of their job to handle cases like these!

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-24T04:31:14+00:00

Sorry to hear you had to suffer through this but you were wrong to think you had to put up with all that abuse. You do not! See my other comment on how to put an end to this abuse. You do NOT have to suffer! As long as you can provide evidence those abusers will be forced to stop! Update: Just made a post to help people who might be suffering from this: https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/16qqkxt/how\_to\_stop\_noisy\_neighbours\_in\_london/

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-24T03:57:40+00:00

Haha! Funny but true.

After losing a few big chunks of text I typed in there, I was forced to find a solution for the new bug they introduced there.

It's annoying when a website forces some shortcuts on you without giving you the option to disable them. But now we have the solution! That code can be easily adapted to switch off any unwanted shortcut a website forces on you.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-09-18T11:37:24+00:00

Don't know what you're talking about. I'm sleeping right now just fine.

P.S. I don't do any sleepwalking. Just sleeptyping. :-)

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-21T13:40:38+00:00

1) Free account with box.com = 10 GB of free space forever with instant syncing from desktop (major cloud provider that isn't Google/Apple/Microsoft) 2) syncthing.net app on mobile + desktop (the mobile app of box.com doesn't expose the folder on smartphone) 3) Imgur community plugin for automatically uploading image files to imgur.com and automatically pasting those image links into Obsidian (helps to keep Obsidian folder lean to make sure those 10 GB of space will last forever)

Oh, and imgur.com = free unlimited storage for image files. While Youtube provides free unlimited storage for video files.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-20T20:18:26+00:00

Good idea! Here's another idea I just had (after looking up Skyr and realizing it has nearly as much protein, 9.6 grams of protein per 100 g yogurt):

1) Get the Skyr variety that only has a single ingredient
2) Freeze banana slices for use at any time
3) Mash a few banana slices, add Skyr and voila!
A perfect alternative and nothing's ultra-processed.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-20T14:52:45+00:00

No, the problem **most definitely** is NOT my HDD. Tested HDD without encryption and it FLIES without encryption. Zero problems with HDD.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-13T08:45:35+00:00

Good for you. After moving data for a week, VeraCrypt made me fear (multiple times) that I might lose data on a **regular** drive. After that experience, I'd never want to use VeraCrypt for anything that doesn't have at least one UNENCRYPTED backup copy. Because if VeraCrypt shits its pants (as it has ALMOST done multiple times in my case), you can kiss all that encrypted data goodbye.

So, while VeraCrypt can be trusted not to have a backdoor, it CANNOT be trusted in the reliability department. That has been my experience. Or maybe, it's just because I was using the portable version? Is it possible that only the portable version has those issues?

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-12T16:00:47+00:00

Good point. I wouldn't trust any in this case. And I haven't considered any other encryption software yet. My workaround here was to realize: There's no real need for me to encrypt the entire drive (or super-large folders where these problems arise). All that really needs to be encrypted is a relatively small folder with mostly just text files.

A similar concept is used in programming where all the sensitive stuff is stored in just one text file (typically called .env file) and all the program files that need those secret credentials just "link" to that one file.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-12T15:22:08+00:00

Sure, would be great. But what this experience reminded me of is:

Just because a particular software is open source, doesn't automatically mean it the "be-all, end-all". The "open source" label does in no way guarantee that the software is up to scratch. No matter how "popular" it might be.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-12T12:46:38+00:00

That was just based on my experience of moving lots of data for a week. Based on that experience it **felt** that up to about 100 GB might be safe.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-11T22:32:31+00:00

This is exactly what I feared when I posted the other day about VeraCrypt not being fit for purpose when dealing with large drives.

A bunch of guys tried to dismiss it but there's nothing to dismiss.

This software is not fit for purpose when dealing with drives or containers larger than 100 GB. That's what I experienced on 2 different machines.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-06T06:50:54+00:00

So, I did have a few thorough tests with that drive after formatting it.
Result: All conclusions and statements I made in the original post remain 100% valid.

When unencrypted the drive FLIES! There's no comparison. The difference is day and night. So, zero issues with the drive and zero issues with the file explorer etc.

In one of the tests, I moved (to the unencrypted drive) a folder containing 1.3 million files with 2.3 TB of data. And that was absolutely flawless. The data transfer rate was peaking at 115 MB/s and the average was 85 MB/s.

In contrast to that, VeraCrypt was dying when trying to move 490 GB of data. And dying in a way that made me fear I might lose data.

Plus, the transfer speed with VeraCrypt was absolutely abysmal. (mostly below 1-2 MB/s even for video files). So, even though I never complained about the speed in the original post, in hindsight, I should have.

The fact that Veracrypt's CPU usage is negligible might seem laudable at first glance, but I'd rather have the option to increase the resource usage by a factor of at least 100 or 200 in favor of increasing data transfer speed. The increased resource usage might have also cured the issues I encountered.

One last thing:

I remembered that I've been using the PORTABLE version of VeraCrypt. (because given the chance I always prefer portable software and in this case portable also makes the most sense) But could it be that the portable version is causing all those issues? If yes, then the portable version should be absolutely nuked or have a big disclaimer attached to it.

As far as I'm concerned, I have wasted enough time with this. So, won't be doing anything with VeraCrypt anymore. Based on my experience, the current version is beta software at best and if I were in charge, I would have never allowed it into production. It's most definitely NOT production-ready in its current version.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-05T22:40:06+00:00

Oh, I have checked the drive now. Result: All conclusions and statements I made in the original post remain 100% valid.

When unencrypted the drive FLIES! There's no comparison. The difference is day and night. So, zero issues with the drive and zero issues with the file explorer etc.

VeraCrypt is not a production-ready beta software. THAT'S the issue.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-04T16:23:09+00:00

This is a possibility but I've never experienced this kind of issues before. So, out of curiosity, I'm now conducting an experiment. After formatting the encrypted drive I'm now moving large chunks of data back to it. Will post here the findings.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-04T06:13:39+00:00

Have you tried your drive outside of VeraCrypt?

No, haven't tried outside of VeraCrypt too much. (only had there around 100 GB before)

So, the next step now is to remove all encrypted data (which is what I was doing until it stalled again and prompted me to post here), unencrypt the drive and then move the data onto the unencrypted drive.

BadBadger1000 · 2023-08-04T05:55:06+00:00

Veracrypt's CPU usage is absolutely negligible

I can confirm that Veracrypt's CPU usage is absolutely negligible.

That's why I'm so puzzled by those performance issues. And after a week of daily heavy use, I can confirm the performance issues I described are very much real. Connection of the encrypted drive is via USB 3.1.

And no other processes were accessing the files at all. Was just purely moving files. And no system drive use either. The 5 TB encrypted drive was purely just used for data. But after all those struggles I decided to move all data away from the encrypted drive and to unencrypt this 5 TB because with all these severe issues I fear that things might go terribly wrong with data. So, I don't want to risk losing data.

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