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Nottheface1337 t1_iuxu49i wrote

Zoom should have background noise cancellation. So. Shouldn’t be an issue for those that are listening to you. Gas blowers are annoying and polluting so I agree with you there. I do use one though so I’m part of the problem. We also live in a heavily wooded area so if you dont do them regularly (a couple times a week) it becomes a whole day affair or an unmanageable task to clear them. It’s also expensive to have people take care of them for you. It’s also more difficult when you have neighbors who dont take care of their leaves and let them blow onto your property then forcing you to continue to solve the problem of clearing all the neighbors leaves. Not saying that’s the case as I have no idea if you have trees, or are in an apartment etc) You are not the problem here. This is a temporary problem thankfully. And isn’t an un-winnable war. You could always cut down all the trees…shrugs…Winter is coming friend. I guess welcome to the suburbs.

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chairmanm30w OP t1_iuyzojz wrote

All of my neighbors use the same team of two elderly men who ride around on giant mowers while holding the leaf blowers. They're definitely not the fastest crew you've ever seen. Usually it takes them about an hour and half per yard. So, I have three neighbors who all hire these two same guys every 2-3 days. Then there is this other guy who is nice, but I genuinely think might be mentally ill, because he's out there blowing EVERY DAY for hours on end.

Like I said, I'm not the type to get worked up about this kind of thing. But they're so inefficient, and it's gone on so long, it's starting to really bum me out.

And to answer your question, we do get a TON of leaves ourselves. But we mulch them using a battery powered mower, which is supposed to be good for the soil.

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freecain t1_iuxxqoi wrote

Noise cancelling could, in theory, be done by zoom, but it takes a lot of coordination between speakers and usually a couple of microphones to figure out the distance of the sound and pin point what to cancel out (both in terms of the headphones and the microphone side of noise canceling). This is why Apple was able to get noise canceling microphones on calls faster than android - they only had to deal with one physical phone. Either way - you can purchase noise canceling microphones - though researching it is a pain since "noise canceling" in headphone refers to the playback side of things, and OP would want the microphone side. They do exist though.

Edit: found this article with some suggestions - https://expertworldtravel.com/best-noise-cancelling-microphones/

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