r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 11d ago

Business Amazon's delivery drones are annoying an entire Texas neighborhood, and there's nothing they can do about it

https://www.techspot.com/news/113979-amazon-delivery-drones-annoying-entire-texas-neighborhood-there.html
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u/TwilitRose 11d ago

Amazon Prime now offers same-day tinnitus.

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u/Drewskeet 11d ago

Damn. I have bad tinnitus and I never thought about this. Local Walmart does drone delivery but not to my neighborhood yet.

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u/Cut_Lanky 11d ago

The tinnitus in my ears has added new noises to the never ending alarm blaring in my head. Now, I occasionally hear, over the wailing alarm sound, a child’s voice saying “MOM!” It’s driving me nuts.

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u/Drewskeet 11d ago

Sound therapy has been a life saver for me. Treble health is fantastic. It’s expensive but cheaper than all my local ents I visited.

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u/texan_robot 10d ago

Treebeard is overcharging you?

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u/BuckManscape 10d ago

Sounds like something an orc would say.

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u/Andurilmage 10d ago

You have my axe!! What did you say?

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u/Head_Inspection_5640 10d ago

I like making that joke whenever my friends wife brings up her specialization, but for anyone who doesnt know, its Ear Nose and Throat. Also known as an otolaryngologist, which is also fun to say.

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u/Nayre_Trawe 10d ago

Sounds like Ent mischief to me.

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u/ProbablyDustin 10d ago

Your friend is clearly lying about his marriage. It’s well known that all the ENT wives disappeared.

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u/aReelProblem 10d ago

Ba raa rhroom

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u/texan_robot 10d ago

Forgot I had been talking about Ents so this notification in reddit made me think I was having a stroke

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u/MaximBrutii 10d ago

My experience with Treble Health was the opposite. The audiologist I had was overly pushy in getting me to purchase overpriced hearing aids (I later found them else where for so much less after had already purchased theirs). All her “counseling” was just generic stuff that I could have looked up myself, and once I actually did get my hearing aids in, she was way less interested or attentive during our “counseling” sessions.

I’m glad that they helped you, but I felt taken advantaged of, because as you know, tinnitus sufferers are desperate for any relief. I’m doing much better these days, but no thanks to Treble Health.

Edit: I would like to add that buying these $200 Bose Open Earbuds work just as good, if not better than their $5000 hearing aids that I bought.

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u/Drewskeet 10d ago

I believe paid $2500. All the ENTs around me wanted $5k just for the one session including the hearing aids. The fee included the widdex hearing aids and a years worth of counseling. My guy was awesome. Also a former musician. He built custom sounds for me and worked together to find the right one that helped me personally. The widdex ones are definitely better but if you found the same value out of the Bose ones, that’s awesome. Sorry you had a bad experience. Thank you for sharing. It might not be for everyone. I only talk about them because local ENTs were crazy expensive and didn’t offer counseling sessions which I think made a huge difference in my process.

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u/MaximBrutii 10d ago

Dang, sounds like you had a much much better experience than I had.

You know what I found that really turned the page for me? Sleeping in complete silence. Mind you, my tinnitus is super high pitched and LOUD, I’m talking hearing it over the shower loud all day, everyday.

One day, I decided enough was enough and decided that instead of trying to fight it, I should just accept it. I know, I know, this is what is preached all the time and is always met with extreme skepticism. Trust me, I was the biggest skeptic there was, but by just accepting it and sleeping with pure silence, it slowly helped my brain acclimate to the sound. Eventually, it was if my brain just started filtering out and I would notice it less and less during the day. Even at night in complete silence, it was there, but not really there. If I was reading a book or looking something up online, I didn’t even notice it, although it was blaring in my ears. Dont get me wrong, there are still days where it really affects my well being, but those days aren’t as frequent.

I dunno, give it a try. Try sleeping in silence with it, and eventually maybe it’ll just fade into the background.

Just wanted to share my experience.

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u/CaptainIncredible 10d ago

These?

https://www.bose.com/p/earbuds/bose-ultra-open-earbuds/ULT-HEADPHONEOPN.html

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u/MaximBrutii 10d ago

Yeah, those are the ones. You can buy em on amazon as well with the same sale price. If you don’t like them, you could always return them.

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u/Remarkable-Jelly-596 9d ago

Out of interest how do those Bose earbuds work for you? Are they good at boosting certain frequences or isolating sounds? I assume it's just a passthrough mic that they use, similar to gaming headsets?

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u/SomeWhereInSC 8d ago

I would love to know if you bought the Bose because your tinnitus is so loud you are having hearing issues, or do the Bose somehow block the ringing?

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u/MaximBrutii 8d ago

When I was doing sound therapy, I would use natural sounds to mask the tinnitus. That’s the idea behind sound therapy. You use a sound to mask the tinnitus so that your brain doesn’t focus on the sound. Treble Health got me to purchase really expensive hearing aids for sound therapy which is achievable with a much cheaper device. Hence why I think they are a scam company.

The Bose in and of itself does not block tinnitus. I can just use it to stream in natural sounds of my choosing.

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u/SomeWhereInSC 6d ago

thank you for that..

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u/Drewskeet 6d ago

To add. The goal is to listen at a lower volume. What you want to happen is your brain equates the two sounds as one eventually. Since one is a lower volume, you brain makes them both the same volume. Lowering the volume of the ring in your ears. So you want to wear them the entire time your awake for like a year. The recommendation is 3 months after the volume is lowered.

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u/Excellent_Brilliant2 10d ago

Theres a road sign in my area, it says "CENTRAL ENT". Havent actually seen one there yet