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How did people survive before noise cancelling headphones? Like god damn, I would've murdered someone by now if I had no way to suppress all the noise. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sixteen other responses and nobody has said earplugs so far.

We used earplugs. They were uncomfortable and they sucked but it was something.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

For the very basic foam one where you squeeze it and put in your ear before it expand, those one is at least comfortable, and is super cheap for a good medical one. Those with stalk sucked but it's something. There's even more fancy one that's expensive but comfortable and also work well, my friend would vouch for it as it helped my friend sleep well.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

Only bad ones are uncomfortable. They don't suck at all, they rule

[–] ODuffer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I'm 55, I used to wear wax earplugs on the train in my 20s. Now I wear IEMs, often with no music playing!