• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago
    • Alkaline water
    • Smart toothbrushes
    • Chiropractors
    • Yearly bug and pest deterrent spraying around exteriors of buildings
    • Self help books
    • Apps like Nerdwallet
    • Irelephant@lemm.eeOP
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      5 months ago

      Do you remember that influencer that started her day with alkaline water with lemon juice, the lemon juice being acidic neutralises the alkaline and makes it not alkaline water.

      Those self help books just parrot the same things you would find in a wikihow article.

    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Yearly bug and pest deterrent spraying around exteriors of buildings

      No, this actually does something.

      I live in an all-wood house. (Literally a log cabin.) I’ve had issues with carpenter ants. Spraying permethrin around the house, and on their trails when I see them, has largely eliminated the issue. It’s a pretty concentrated solution, about 10:1, and has to be reapplied every few months (it does wash off, eventually), but it def. does the job.

      You can get a less concentrated treatment for clothing if you’re going to be in areas with extremely high levels of mosquitos and ticks.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      I’ve seen this sentiment before, but I’m waiting to switch until I learn how to add the microphone and camera quick toggles included in GrapheneOS to LineageOS. Is there a project for that?

    • FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      So if I understand you correctly, Graphene OS does everything it says it does but overhypes its differences with other forks. That doesn’t sound like snakeoil, only effective marketing.

      Why shouldn’t I use it over the other forks then, particularly because useful features like hardened_malloc are only avalible on Graphene despite being widely ported to linux distros?

      They also do not shill for Big Tech or Google/Apple.

      What’s the story behind this? I’m genuinely curious.

      I will say I strongly dislike how the developer has handled criticism, but that seems to be more a failing of the dev then a problem with the OS.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Blue light filter on glasses. When I got my glasses, the lady said they come with blue light filter for free, and I said, “I don’t want that, my job requires that I see colors accurately, so I can’t have any sort of color filter.” She said don’t worry, it doesn’t filter any colors. Ok, then what the fuck is it exactly?

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Essential oils. Homeopathy. Chiropractic. Reiki. Juice cleanses. Perineum sunning. Internet accelerator software. Iridology. Faith healing. Organic food. Oil pulling. Gold plated digital audio cables.

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Organic food versus GMOs. I think big farma is in on the organic food prices and put false narratives about the dangers of gmo foods.

  • IncognitoMosquito@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    The Mayers Briggs Type Indicator test. It was developed with the same rigor as horoscopes, yet I still hear people I know are smart proudly tell me their four letter personality code.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Quite literal. The Chlorine Dioxide Solution scam came to me through a podologist a year or so ago. What makes this outstanding to me, it’s they succeeded at having some academic backup, though, completely out of context. It’s an absolute rabbit hole, you are warned.