I just realized my android phone doesn’t have a headphones jack
Haha. Oh, fuck. So do i. 🫥
how long have you had it and how have you been listening to stuff
Bluetooth earbuds. Once I was an adult and started actually taking care of my things, they were straight-up better for me across the board.
oh ok thats understandable
And what do you know, Ego enjoyed a simple meal that finally broke his personal vendetta against the restaurant.
Enjoy your music.
I got a free phone but it didn’t have a headphone jack, after trying them I really like the bluetooth earbuds.
I always yoinked out my headphones when working out with the wired ones.
There’s a bunch of brands that make airpod quality earbuds for like $25
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.
I also find it annoying that there’s no headphone jack by default on most phones, but I just connected a usb-c to 3.5 mm to my headphones and use it them this way if I need to. Yes, it’s a dongle, but it’s small enough that it can just stay connected to my headphones jack and carried with them.
I cannot for the life of me get any of those dongles to work for more than 6 months. It always turns into a glitchy disconnecting mess.
i had a friend that got a new phone and half of the conversations we had was about how much the usbc to jack adaptors break
like he would have to buy then every week and they looked pretty expensive
also he couldnt go back to his old phone cause the screen was so screwed up part of it was black and the rest would be brighter than a lightbulb
I normally use bluetooth headphones so I don’t use the adapters enough to have any that broke yet. I keep a pair of wired headphones as a backup, and sometimes I want to connect my phone to old speakers, so the adapter is useful in those cases.
I guess if you’re using that adapter every day it might indeed break faster.
However where I live you can find them at the dollar store for something like $4.
yeah, since his thing broke basically every week he probably was using it every night. also that is very cheap. i live in brazil so prices are way higher (R$15 is the cheapest i found online, so in a local store or with the shipping cost itd be at least R$25 but probably even higher)
Even the expensive dongles buzz constantly.
That shouldn’t be happening.
let me guess, you’re also an Arch user? 😏
I wish I had the gall to switch off windows 😞
Get some gall then!
Yesterday was the best day to switch but today is fine too!
You’re right! End of this month then!
The only thing stopping me is losing all my photos and music saved to hard drives, I worry about file compatibility.
Photo and music file types should be fully compatible.
I’d recommend though snagging an extra hard-drive to back up your files even if you don’t switch.
If you’ve got your files in only one location you have them in no locations.
You can create a bootable USB stick (so-called “Live USB”, which is the same thing you can later use to install the OS). Then you can test file compatibility and whatever else you want, while booted into that, without committing to the install.
File compatibility wouldn’t really be a problem, just make sure not to nuke any partition. If you’re using ntfs you might need to install the drivers, but it’s pretty straightforward
I’m in the middle of switching to Linux. I’m dual booting so I can still use Windows when I need to or run into issues. If you install something like Mint you’d be surprised how easy it is. Not only that, in a lot of circumstances it runs better than Windows because of all of the bloatware that comes with Windows. If you’re afraid to switch but have enough hard drive space I highly recommend dual booting to test the waters. These days I end up using Linux more than Windows.
Same spot here, switched two weeks ago, dual boot with windows but only use windows for one game that needs an external mod manager to work.
Its easy, it’s fun and it’s customisable. Loving it so far.
Once I installed Linux Mint on my home desktop, I’m pretty sure I never booted into windows again. It was only a few weeks before I made a copy of everything on that windows SSD then formatted it to ext4 to have some additional fast storage for editing stuff.
I find Linux Mint so much nicer to use than windows. It is one of the most full-featured distros yet it moves like lightning in comparison. You can feel the difference you get when decades of development are driven by the desire to make good software rather than 37 different battling priorities within one of the world’s largest corporations.
And being full-featured does not mean it is dumbed down. It is good for experienced users too. I’m a software engineer that works on embedded Linux systems. On my work laptop I’ve been running Mint for over a year and it works beautifully. It’s still Linux, the command line is still there, and you can customize whatever you want to.
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!
Don’t even get me started on the fact you can’t just replace a fucking battery anymore.
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)
We want to hot swap our batteries on the go, you goof.
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.
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.
Gotta keep that IP68 rating!
There are ip68 seals for phone fames so you can open it to replace the battery
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thankfully now there’s MagSafe charging so that frees up the lightning/usb-c for wired headphones
Thankfully now there’s MagSafe charging so that frees up the lightning/usb-c for wired headphones
Shhh, you have to call it “qi2 charging” or you’ll be sent to the Apple User gulag. We need to pretend that qi2 isn’t directly based on MagSafe.
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”
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)
Not being allowed to uninstall facebook should be a crime.
I just bought an A34 for my mom. I was able to remove all the bloat directly from the launcher, except for some Galaxy apps. For the rest, I used ADB.
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.
And no sdcard, which is a real pain in the ass for a lot of people, I think, it’s more of a problem, than just the headphone plug.
Same same
Happy Motorola G 84 user here. The only ding is the camera isn’t the best but for the price this couldn’t be beat.
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.)
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.
Pretty much exactly that lol
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.
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.
Old man yells at radio waves.
I swear I can hear them yelling back.
