The technology for this has existed for 20+ years and is actually fairly common. It's often referred to as dynamic range compression. I think the chief complaint here is that it needs to be more accessible. Pre-applying it would mess up too many use cases.
Yeah no kidding, this guy uses decibel scale but doesn't understand decibel scale. I fucking hate leaf blowers but 55dB seems like a reasonable starting point to me. It won't even barely reach your yard from a neighbor's.
I love a lot of the ideas in this thread but a ton of them are actually consequential.
Having a conversation with a voice assistant in public should be a minor felony.
At some point you'd hope they'd notice that these "workarounds" are more blatantly obvious than the thing they're embarrassed by.
All of them if you try hard enough
I miss the larry craig days when a wide stance in the public bathroom would get them to resign in shame
Is there a dollar tree variant of grindr that we could use to enhance these references further
Imagine the possibilities when AI gets involved and can't distinguish between killing children (programming) vs IRL.
Isn't yours?
I used to see threads like this on reddit where people would defend the act by claiming it keeps people employed. Anyone who has worked in retail knows otherwise, but it doesn't stop these neanderthals from existing and making their bullshit toxic arguments.