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    11pm. Early enough that they can’t just ignore it until morning and will have to search the entire house, unable to sleep until the find it.

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    Start it at night when his bedroom light goes off for him to sleep. Let it go for approximately 30 seconds after his light turns on so he gets up to check then cut it off. Repeat until you’re tired enough that’s it’s no longer worth the joy. You can also raise the volume slowly when he decides he’s going to sleep through it and deal with it tomorrow

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      I must say, playlist on shuffle of 1-30 minutes of silence and one single chirp seems equally devious while also not requiring you to stay up. Loop the playlist over the course of an hour, let the shuffle adjust how long between chirps each one is

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      If you’re monitoring his movements, I’d go with a dripping tap sound. Just enough irregularity in the timing to keep it interesting. Silence it every time he gets out of bed.

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      I’d use the sound of a cricket or some kind of insect. Make him paranoid and spend all his time hunting for an imaginary bug

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    I once discovered that the waffle house jukebox is accessible online. Me and some friends were drinking and played all star for 4 hours straight. Someone tried at one point to insert other songs, but there was an option to give your song priority.

    The jukebox went dead around 3am.

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      The local bars near me have that, and I can reach them from my house.

      My playlists always begin and end with Photograph by Nickleback, and in between is… interesting. I like to ease in with a few weird-for-a-bar but not bad (My Heart Will Go On, some Babymetal, etc) and work my way toward the really weird (showtunes, especially from Avenue Q), ending with the bad (like the 30 minute Sufjan Stevens song). Then Nickleback again, and back to your country music.

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        Local bars here have the same thing.

        The app won’t let you play the same song twice in a row. But, if it’s the same song on a different album, no worries.

        My go to is 5 or 6 sweet home Alabamas in a row. I’ve only done 2 or 3 times, much to my friends chagrin.

        These days I get side eyes from the very first sweet home Alabama. Heck, I’ll be sitting home on my couch and get texts from buddies, “are you screwing with me? Are you playing sweet home Alabama right now?!”

        Usually it wasn’t me. Usually. 🤫

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    Initially connect when the target isn’t home, as a number of speakers make a distinct “startup” noise when a device connects.

    After that, bear in mind that most bluetooth speakers have a small delay before they play audio, and this often means that the first second or so of audio will be cut off. Unless you use another app to keep a constant silent noise playing. The silence being sent as audio to play effectively “warms up” the speaker so the cut off portion is during the silence, not the actual noise you want. Some speakers need this silence to be infintessimally quiet static, as they’ll just drop pure silence. Pretty sure there’s an app on F-Droid for this.

    You wouldn’t want your friend to only hear part of the chirp after all.

    Also, most devices with a screen have a way to display the name of what device is connected. This especially applies to casting to screens. Name your phone something generic for safety.

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    Brad had this coming. He’s such a cunt.

    But besides that, play water dripping and pouring late at night when he definitely sleeps and enjoy the thought of him waking up in a pissed bed.

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    I hate speakers with open bluetooth. I’d rather have to press a button than let anyone in range potentially have control, partially for shit like this, partially just because someone looking to connect to their own device might pick mine on the list if theirs isn’t showing up.

    My soundbar is very good at always showing up on that bluetooth device list and I have had neighbours randomly connect to it. I’ll usually turn the bt off at that point, but it’s usually on because I use it sometimes. Just wish it had some sort of security instead of being designed for people who might have enough trouble getting the power on.

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    Seems like a perfect opportunity to ram ranch him, but the smoke alarm chirps are solid and potentially longer lasting

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      The great things about the chirps is that you can space them randomly quite far apart from each other so that he can never get quite enough data to locate them.

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        This is exactly why it’s so nefarious. Without a constant sound he won’t be able to locate where it’s coming from, and so you can keep the chirps going for days or weeks on end while the guy tears his house apart looking for a smoke alarm that doesn’t exist