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Re:Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened... by brnt on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @01:35AM (#41431609)
Or neighbourhood. I have neighbours with horror vacui: they just need noise 24x7 and their garden is no exception.

I really do not understand this feature. If I want to listen to music without headphone, I'm going to sit down in front of my stereo where sound is best.

Re:Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened... by justinclift on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @04:10AM (#41443096)
"horror vacui" on wikipedia doesn't really seem to be turning up anything appropriate to explain what you're meaning?
Re:Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened... by kashunstva on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:27AM (#41443608)
“horror vacui” (Latin) - “dread of the void”

I suppose the neighbours are of the sort, like many seemingly, who cannot tolerate silence.

Re:Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened... by tengwar2 on Thursday September 05, 2024 @01:09PM (#41458557)
You might know it as "Nature abhors a vacuum". Originally it was a statement of Cartesian physics: the idea was that "action at a distance" was impossible, and since distant objects did clearly interact (through gravity and light), all of space has to be completely filled with particulate matter (assumed to be in vortex motion). From this and "cogito ergo sum" it was possible to build a model of physics which extended to the ethics of how you should treat your dog.

However here it is used as a simple figure of speech rather than literally: the neighbours don't like to lrave anything unfilled with sound.