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Damn, the fever is down and the cough is easing up, but my nose feels like it’s lined with sandpaper. What to do? Look it up!
Duck Duck Go: dry sinuses
Results:
- (Amazon) Dry Nasal Passage – Deals on Dry Nasal Passage [ad]
- (Thrive Market) Banyan Sinus Nasal Drops – Organic Sinus Remedy [ad]
- (Healthline) Dry Sinuses: Inside Nose, Throat, Symptoms, Headache, and More…
- (Medical News Today) Dry sinuses: Remedies, causes, and how to treat them – Medical…
- (Healthline) 5 Effective Ways to Treat a Dry Nose
Alright, I’ll take the bottom Healthline link, the one that doesn’t look like it had a stroke.
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Duck Duck Go: dry sinuses !g
I’ll just fucking ignore the AI answer before it tells me to eat glue. Oh, the results are the fucking same, but there’s a Mayo Clinic in there. I know from experience that one has also cucked itself from the EU. Fine, I’ll throw the Healthline link to archive.is
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How to treat dry sinuses
Dry sinuses occur when the mucous membranes in your sinuses lack proper moisture. This can lead to dry nasal passages, discomfort, nosebleeds, and similar unpleasant symptoms. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur sagittis eros vitae elit vehicula congue. Curabitur pellentesque risus sit amet ipsum vehicula, nec elementum sem iaculis. Mauris fermentum egestas est non tempus. Aenean urna diam, bibendum ac aliquet id, vulputate ut nunc. Ut luctus leo eu lacus consequat vulputate. In consequat augue at cursus tempor. Aenean tristique felis id fermentum tristique. Maecenas fermentum nunc vitae purus efficitur, id malesuada dui elementum. Etiam lobortis viverra turpis eu eleifend. Integer ac efficitur lacus. Nullam rutrum nisl lacus, bibendum maximus turpis vehicula eu. In at turpis lacus. Etiam libero tellus, imperdiet a fringilla non, tincidunt id ligula. Ut sodales convallis mauris sed semper. Nunc laoreet eros eget nulla mollis consectetur.
What are the symptoms of dry sinuses?
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What causes dry sinuses?
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How are dry sinuses treated?
There are many ways you can treat dry sinuses at home to alleviate discomfort caused by seasonal allergies, irritation from chemicals, or drying from medications or dry air. To get relief, you can:
- place a humidifier in your bedroom at night to keep the air from getting too dry
- stop taking drying medications, such as antihistamines (or ask your doctor or pharmacist to help you choose something with fewer side effects)
- drink plenty of water to stay hydrated get some fresh air if the air in your house is stale or stagnant
- remove as many allergens and irritants from your environment as possible
- irrigate your sinuses with sterile saline using a neti pot or similar product
- use nasal spray to hydrate and lubricate your nasal passages and sinuses
- take a hot shower and inhale the steam
- diffuse essential oils like lavender, peppermint, or lemon for allergies
In some cases, your doctor might need to recommend treatment for your dry sinuses. Make an appointment with your doctor if you:
- have an autoimmune disorder like Sjögren syndrome
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Alright, take it easy with antihistamines and dig out that nasal spray. Thanks, internet. This definitely needed all these steps to solve.
Edit: archive link to the actual article in case it’ll save someone else a couple of minutes
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My elderly mother was advised to purchase a personal EKG/ECG monitor to help investigate occasional atypical heart behavior. She purchased a KardiaMobile 6L. I helped her set it up this weekend - requires a phone app to connect to the device via BT… and, of course, an account with a possibility paid subscription… good lord.
At every turn there are popups for a US $11.99/Month or $99/Year service, required for any use cases that aren’t look at recent records and export a PDF. App closes in the background and opens again… full screen popup next time it opens. Finish an EKG? Popup offering service to have a specialist look at the EKG. Main screen? List of every service not included with the free tier in its own little box with a button to subscribe for each.
So now my mother is supposed to find her instructions on how to navigate around this bullshit, with large text and fingers so dry she struggles to activate the touch screen without a stylus, during an abnormal cardiac event… then navigate around more bullshit to find the record in her history and send her doctor the PDF.
I really wish there was a mandatory interface for consumer medical devices (or just… devices in general) or something so I could just make a solution to bypass the bullshit and get the thing do what it was designed to do. Open the app, big button to record an EKG, prompt to save it or send it after.
Different rant, but why are so many sites so slow? Loading times seem to have gone up, not down.
Please note this is rethorical, dont be like the sites asking me if I want to turn on notifications.
200 MB of Javascript to display a static box of text
Disable third-party frames and scripts (medium blocking mode in ubLock) and most sites do what they’re supposed to: just display the content. The others, enable third-party scripts and use one of the cookie banner lists from uBlock. And one special site, once in a blue moon, needs you to enable third-party frames too.
I didn’t ask for advice, but the painkillers are kicking in so I forgive you. I was browsing the intertubes from my bed on my smart telephone. Marvelous, handy little devices these things. The only problem is they don’t have a proper fucking version of Firefox available on them, only poor imitations that lack such necessities as ublock origin and whatnot.
This rant is about the way search engines have been kneecapped and searching for simple information on the web is now a massive hassle because some suit wearing bottom feeders with the moral backbone of crustacean thought they could squeeze a few more drops of our collective lifeblood on the unholy altar of mammon by poisoning the well and not even having the common decency to peddle a better cure than fucking markov chains. I don’t have anything against content blockers, some of my worst enemies are javascripts, but a client side patch does not solve the problem of every major website (aside from maybe Wikipedia) relying on spyware as a business model, gaming the system to make search engines ignore better sites if there are any, giving a middle finger to regional regulations telling you not to rely on spyware as a business model, and burying whatever useful and relevant information may still be left in droning filler that reads like a middle schooler padding out their essay word count.
As tragically true as it is that intentionally maiming my web browser by disabling web features it’s supposed to support in order to browse the actual website I’m browsing on the web with my web browser whose purpose is browsing websites, that’s only another item on a long list of reasons why and how the web has been ruthlessly defiled into the grotesque monstrosity it is now. Blessed be ad blocker developers, I hope their next move is inventing a time machine and preventing Google from purchasing DoubleClick in 2008. Preferably using violence.
The only problem is they don’t have a proper fucking version of Firefox available on them, only poor imitations that lack such necessities as ublock origin and whatnot.
what kind of smart telephone is that, a blackberry?
You know what, yeah. It’s a Blackberry Mobira Cityman Western Electric Model 500 Nokia 3310 Apple Banana Samsung Galaxy Supernova Explosion iNote Xperia Sidekick N-Gage 3G 4G 5G Pro Max. It’s running whatever happens to be the hippest new privacy focused ROM that you haven’t used. I need this particular model for my work and to access my bank and if I buy a second phone my dog will die.
If I personally justify to you that I’ve jumped through as many hoops on my end as possible, will you stop missing the point and realize the onus should not be on each individual end user to partially deshittify the web back into barely usable state?
no, you’re totally right, but it was just interesting
Alright fair enough. It’s an iPhone. All the browsers on this thing are just Safari reskins (i.e. Chromium reskins). No browser add-ons allowed due to Apple’s policy. I don’t like it and I don’t expect my next phone to be an Apple product. DNS based ad blocking helps a little bit.
yeah I’ve found reasonable success with 1Blocker (and its local VPN proxy thingy, which I happen to have lifetime because early customer), but also
- iOS-Fx does not get the same treatment as Safari does, and it’s fucking whacky
- a lot of sites are aggressively shitty about pushing a particular form of non-blockable/less-blockable on for mobile UAs
- fuck apple so much for driving this shit
I think they brought it back, im on firefox 100.1.2 and have the usual ublock. Unless they removed add-ons again, in which case - lmao
Damn, the fever is down and the cough is easing up, but my nose feels like it’s lined with sandpaper
probably an allergic preaction to what you were about to find
Upvoting for preaction.
I typed it into ddg & got a whole lot of law related sites i.e. pre-action.
I just typed it into my post box
- remove as many allergens and irritants from your environment as possible
Burn the flowers. Burn the grass.
reminded of twisted’s issue 5000
The modern way is to go to duck.ai and type your query there. No popups.
I was going to post a reply similar to this, but as a joke. Fuck you for doing it in earnest instead.
promptfans, killing the vibe since 2021
Wow ai usage does reduce your critical reading skills.
wow, a whole domain and interface for the thing they continually fail to make people use (you can tell based on how desperately and constantly they shove it to the top of results)
you must feel so special! one of their 13 users, getting a custom ui for the turd you love. how rare
You must be new here. Hi!
Please cast your eyes over the archives, paying close attention to the threads where people are enthusing over AI search!
Actually that’s tricky because the people here might generally be described as unenthusiastic about AI, because the technology is fundamentally a fountain of bullshit and bias finely crafted to fool people into thinking it is a valuable and accurate tool.
The popups aren’t the issue, you know.
In this case duck.ai gave me most of the solutions listed in the original post for the query “dry sinuses”. The tool objectively does have value.
The commenter has been directed elsewhere.
Only because normal search isn’t as good as it was a couple of years ago (surprisingly relevant post from here)
I love taking medical advice from a machine that only rarely tells me to eat rocks or glue. The only reason the tool supposedly has value is because the websites are made to be bad on purpose so that they make more money.
The only reason the tool supposedly has value is because the websites are made to be bad on purpose so that they make more money.
Yes, and because, as it appears, AI occasionally ingests content from some of the better websites out there. However, without sources, you’ll be unable to check whether that was the case for your specific query or not. At the same time, it is getting more and more difficult for us to access these better websites ourselves (see above), and sadly, incentives for creators to post this type of high-quality content appear to be decreasing as well.
dingdingding! the infocasino was called a “tool” again! everyone to have a shot!
The popups aren’t the only issue!
Fuck the “modern” way, fuck the duck, fuck all prompt bullshit and fuck the geometric cheetah you rode here.
This would be a fantastic hook for a scifi novel
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TAKE ME BACK
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