I need a new phone and I want to cry because it is seeming that the Pixel Pro with Graphene is the best I can do. New phones fucking suck, It’ not about “I need the MAXIMUM PRIVACY 90000” it’s “I want some control, I’m not buying a Samsung ever again due to the mountain of irremovable bloatware”
Not being allowed to uninstall facebook should be a crime.
For real. Samsung’s sheer quantity of bloatware on every phone is ridiculous. It’s the primary reason I’m never buying from them again, aside from just plain old privacy concerns.
I have a Galaxy Note 9 from the days of yore and it’s beginning to show its age, I need to replace it before it completely shits the bed, but like, what am I supposed to replace it with?
I need a headphone jack, I need it to be powerful enough to run modest phone games to the tune of Arknights and similar, and I want to feel like I have a half decent amount of control over it (no apps I can’t remove within reason)
I too was disgruntled with samsung and chose a pixel and grapheneOS. It does not have a headphone jack but I can reluctantly live with that. It has been the best OS i have ever used and I didn’t even have to root it.
Same same
I’m cruising down the freeway in my horse and buggy cursing all the young punks passing me way too fast.
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.
Sadly it’s more profitable to force users to buy more shit
That wasn’t even the reason for that change. There just plain wasn’t much room on the GBA SP for a headphone jack. People have modded them in aftermarket but every single one of the possible positions looks like crap and the GBA was never the pinnacle of audio hardware. In fact, the headphone jack made a triumphant return on every handheld Nintendo has released since the GBASP, including the GBA Micro.
(I am not saying there weren’t good bops on the GBA, most Pokemon tunes are incredible. Just that audio quality was never a priority for design on the GBA.)
im so tired of crappy usb-c dongles that stop working if my phone moves at all and bluetooth earbuds with shit battery i might just get an sd card with massive storage and use my old nintendo ds as a music player
I just bought a €10 mp3 player off aliexpress.
And what do you know, Ego enjoyed a simple meal that finally broke his personal vendetta against the restaurant.
Enjoy your music.
See, this might be ok if there were two of them. But now when the battery gets low you are required to stop listening.
I see your point but, isn’t this more cumbersome than wired earbuds/headphones?
Sure, but what’s the use case at this point anyway?
“My bluetooth headset ran out of battery and my phone ran out of battery and I want to listen to music.” How often does that really happen?
Bluetooth is less cumbersome than all of these choices, but for under a tenner you can solve all these drawbacks. Whack it in a pocket of your travel bag with your earbuds and away you go. I genuinely couldn’t even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones. My bluetooth AKGs actually have a headphone socket, that I’ve used exactly twice. Once to watch an in flight movie on a 480p screen on the back of a headrest, and again to use them with my Switch since for some bonkers reason it didn’t support bluetooth headphones for ages, despite having a BT receiver on board. No idea where the cable is for them now. I doubt I’ll need it again.
I travel 8+ hours by train several times a week, and regularly go a day or two without access to power where I sleep. By all means, I’m not the average consumer, but the situation of “need to change while also wanting to use my headset” comes up often enough.
Now that’s just perverse. 😳
Old man yells at sky
I’m fascinated by this apparently critical sliver of venn diagram between “I value audio latency/marginal improvement in quality highly enough to be inconvenienced by messing with a headphone cable while on the go” vs “a dongle is too inconvenient”.
*Apparently this is a really hot take. My point being the convenience gap between cable vs no cable is so much larger than the gap between dongle vs no dongle that I don’t understand how it’s a dealbreaker.
Using a dongle is in no way a replacement for a real headphone jack. A dongle on a phone is a one way ticket to a broken usb c port. It’s not meant to be pocketed with a dongle attached. Headphone ports are supported and able to better handle the stress (if made properly).
Just give us a phone with the single most common port in use by our species that is standardized across all nations on our planet: 3.5mm audio port. I don’t care if it makes the decice .0000001mm thicker. I don’t care if it adds $.01 to the BOM cost of the phone. Go fuck yourself, manufacturers, I WANT MY GODDAMN HEADPHONE JACK BACK YOU BASTARDS!!!
I just want a pair of headphones that I don’t need to recharge and that won’t inevitably die when the batteries fail.
Old man yells at radio waves.
I swear I can hear them yelling back.
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.
For the same price wired headphones have much better sound quality than wireless ones. They are built with less expensive parts and software.
The tiny batteries in small wireless earbuds makes them disposable, after a few years.
I own have owned lots of different wired and wireless headphones. My two over ear wired headphones need a new ear cushion every couple of years or a new cable per decade, but they last and last. My wireless headphones have either become unusable because of dead batteries or one part of an overengineered device breaking.
My two wired overhear headphones have cost less together than my one nice Bluetooth overhear headphones and have outlasted it by a decade.
For the same price wired headphones have much better sound quality than wireless ones. They are built with less expensive parts and software.
The tiny batteries in small wireless earbuds makes them disposable, after a few years.
I own have owned lots of different wired and wireless headphones. My two over ear wired headphones need a new ear cushion every couple of years or a new cable per decade, but they last and last. My wireless headphones have either become unusable because of dead batteries or one part of an overengineered device breaking.
My two wired overhear headphones have cost less together than my one nice Bluetooth overhear headphones and have outlasted it by a decade.
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 only ever had that problem with AirPods, but the $15 knock-off has been great. I’ve had them for a while now and there is no battery problem yet.
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.
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.
And 2 years of security updates.
They type of person who owns a set of wired headphones or earphones for over a decade doesn’t replace their phone every 2 years.
And these days you really shouldn’t try and keep a device on the internet without updates.
It’s why the fair phone got rightly trashed when they ditched the headphone jack. Battery powered ear buds were completely against their demographics
HMD make decent repairable phones with a headphone jack. They took the Nokia brand for a while but they’re now just HMD and they’re doing some cool modular stuff with cases too.
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.
I don’t untangle cord
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.
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.
I used to download AMVs using YT to MP4 sites, then play back the audio on my phone instead of just downloading the music.
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.
