So sick of Nintendo doing stuff like this. Releasing the GBA SP and requiring a dongle to use headphones? What if I need to charge during a session of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance? This will never catch on.
I. Don’t. Say. Please. I. Don’t. Say. Thank you. I. just. Do. What. I. Want. And. If. You. Want. to. Get. With. Me. You. Better. Give. Me. What. I. Want.
Same cadence in this song that this meme has.
See, this might be ok if there were two of them. But now when the battery gets low you are required to stop listening.
Old man yells at sky
I’ve found that bluetooth headphones are about just as cheap as wired ones and being free of the cable makes a big difference.
Washing dishes? Don’t have to worry about your phone being to far away from you.
Laying in bed? Don’t have to worry about headphones getting pulled out of your ears because you rolled over.
Yea it’s a good thing the batteries in them are made of fairy dust that just appears and disappears with no problems whatsoever.
I usually manage to destroy my headphones well before the battery starts turning into a problem.
Maybe I shouldn’t wear them for 10 hours a day.
Old man yells at radio waves.
Then he wears the airpods for the first time and it’s exactly like when maman served that disgusting peasant dish.
For those who are looking, the Sony Xperia line has a number of phones with both an sd card slot and a headphone jack.
They discontinued the 5 while I was waiting for it -.- And “We continue to produce the old version” was missing the “and prolong the software support window”. I think I have to usb or bluetooth dongle with my next phone.
My experience with smartphone headphone jacks is that they break really fast. Not quite sure what I’m doing wrong, but bluetooth did solve that particular issue for me.
I’ve never had that happen all my life. I’ve never even heard from a friend where such a thing would happen.
Did you drop your phone on the jack with a cable inside?
No. If there was such an obvious reason I’d know what I’m doing wrong.
Have you ever cleaned the lint out of the headphone jack?
No. Never noticed any, and I generally keep the headphones plugged in even when I’m not actively using them.
I’ve had it happen too, I assume it’s because I’d fall asleep listening to stuff with headphones and jerk on it weirdly while sleeping
The irony of the meme being that the food critic ends up loving Remy’s ratatouille. Meaning Bluetooth would bring him to a simpler time like the ratatouille did in the movie
i feel like there was a time where wireless audio devices were just too expensive and too low battery to be worth it, but now we’re well past that point and i can buy a pair of true wireless earplugs with ANC for 40 bucks, and that’s pretty good!
really the only real complaint i have is that i do not see the point of “true wireless” when you could just have a wire between them and be able to add more battery capacity while also reducing the risk of them being lost.
Back when he grew up just listening to music rather than being a bitter adult worrying about bitrates.
When I was a kid, I used to drop my CD rips down to a 32,000kHz sample rate to make the WAV files smaller, because I couldn’t figure out MP3s yet. Adult me is horrified by the notion. But back then, sounding good enough was acceptable.
Pretty much exactly that lol
this was my exact experience tbh. I hated the idea of Bluetooth headphones, I had tried some 5ish years ago and they were horrendous, even though they were a relatively high end pair. last year I said fuck it and got another high end pair, and I love them. ldac capable, so it’s 990kbs so I don’t have any complaints at all about the sound, and the probability is great and I don’t have to worry about charging them nearly as much as I assumed I would.
It also implies that him not liking wireless could potentially ruin a small company’s livelihood and drive the owner into his grave, as he has done in the past.
Don’t even get me started on the fact you can’t just replace a fucking battery anymore.
Gotta keep that IP68 rating!
Pretty sure that has almost nothing to do with it.
There are other non-smartphone consumer electronics with IP68 and user replaceable batteries.
Samsung Galaxy XCover series have replacable batteries
Fairphones have them too.
With headphone jacks and SD card slots! I don’t need a streaming service to enjoy my 1TB of onboard media.
What do you mean you can’t? Sure, it takes an unnecessary amount of work, which is fucking stupid, but it is still absolutely doable at home (in most cases)
you need to heat the phone up and mess about with the internals, even as a tech person i don’t want to risk fucking up my phone like that.
We want to hot swap our batteries on the go, you goof.
Most people literally do not have the technical knowledge for that.
Just because I own the tools and can do it myself misses the larger issue of this being anti-consumer in general.
Consumers shouldn’t need to have those kind of skills to change a battery.
My last phone purchase went something like this:
“What phones do you have with a headphone jack?”
“Uh, I don’t think any. Maybe one? I’d have to look.”
“I’ll take that one.”
“But we–”
“Only spec that matters is a headphone jack.”
“There’s bluetoo–”
“Headphone jack.”
Gotta look for either a budget or non-major brand phone. I went with an Asus phone for my last upgrade (previous was an LG V60). Sony Xperia and some of the Chinese ‘gaming’ phones also have them.
Yep a bottom of the barrel phone from a no-name brand will still have an audio jack…
But the fucking Pixel line doesn’t. Pixels are the only real non-dogshit phone if you want a secure OS.
Sometimes you have to choose between two important things.
Sometimes you have to choose between two important things.
i love losing my little tiny dongle with a fragile little cable that I need to take off my phone to charge and need to take off my headphones to use them on other devices ♥️
Yeah it sucks. Though the usb-c converters will actually work on anything with USB-C
I have the slightly bigger green adapter that does charge and 3.5 jack and it’s 32 bit/384khz. And the two tips are magnetic so you can split it. It sounds great with my IEMs
Right? This — and literally nothing but this — is what all the outrage is about. Still, none of my business; everyone can buy whatever phones they want.
Which one did you get? :)
An open box A12 for I think $40. Working fine for almost two years now.
Last time I went to look at phones I told them I want something without any AI. He said you won’t find anything, so I left and bought a pixel online to wipe and run a privacy OS on.
I, unfortunately, switched to a phone without a headphone jack. I hope to be able to switch back in a few years when I need a new one.
Same goes for SD card readers! I don’t want to pay extra for storage I already have!
There’s barely even an excuse for it, as most of these phones have a dual SIM tray and one of those can be a dual SIM/SD slot. It’s just enshittification so they can upsell $25 of storage for a $200 model upgrade.
This. I have an s20FE which is one of the last samsungs to keep the microsd slot. I’m considering very carefully what I should get for my next phone and this is one of my most wanted features, besides 3.5mm aux.
Depending on carrier compatibility and where you live, the Sony Xperia 1 V/VI may be your best bet. I ended up going for an Asus phone, dropping the SD card slot.
Looks good, thanks!
Bluetooth is amazing, don’t get me wrong. But it doesn’t always work and it’s hard to figure out why something won’t connect. Plugging something works every time.
not sure why you have that experience, the only issue i’ve had with bluetooth is not figuring out how to enable pairing mode on some device, which… that’s the device having a shit implementation, it’s like putting a headphone jack under what looks like a screw cover.
Plus most Bluetooth modes have horrendous latency, which is jarring when playing a mobile game.
BT LE audio should help in that regard. It also has some cool features like directly sending audio to individual ear buds rather than having to have one bud relay the audio to the other and “auracast” which allows multiple devices to listen to a single source.
Until the jack takes a hit and you can’t repair it.
oh yeah cause its way easier to repair something that uses bluetooth after it takes a hit
