I despise snap. Primarily because it mounts a new volume for every package.

I tore it out a couple times. I’m switching to another distro entirely. In part because the last time I tried to remove it I either didn’t remember how or the old way doesn’t work anymore.

I would recommend choosing a distro that doesn’t use it.

Active noise cancellation of a known sound pattern is actually pretty easy (technologically). The inverse of the sound wave collides with the sound waves and cancels them out.

I’d do it with an arduino, use a microphone to listen for the specific sound and trigger the opposite sound (which you’ll have prepared ahead of time and saved). Arduino programming is pretty straightforward. And now with AI you could probably just prompt one of the top five ai products for the code.

Then it’s a question of getting the sound projected in the right direction. You’ll probably want a speaker array pointed towards the source of the sound. I think a soundbar might be a good start.

In the short term headphones with active noise cancellation work great. I use earbuds under comfortable hearing protection.

I also like the wire cutters idea. I hate those alarms.

Is this the one that requires an unbelievable amount of energy and destroys the destination solar system? Because that one isn’t going to work for me.

I continually fantasize about doing something that doesn’t require a computer to design, manufacture, distribute, or sell. Let me know if you think of anything. Much as I hate them I do actually have a good time when things work out. Unfortunately when things work out you’ve solved some problem and the reward for solving a problem is more problems to solve.

Electric car buyers prefer a product out of China with an unknown track record over the devil they know.

I expect Tesla sales in Europe will never recover.

“Outperforms” but struggles with visual interfaces, generates false alarms and hallucinates successfully breaches. Sounds like it will need a minder so it doesn’t actually replace a security engineer, it simply gives them a turbocharged tool. And a lot of extra work digging through slop. So about like other ai tools. Faster, but of limited use due to the normal problems with ai tooling.