Jesus these comments scream basement dweller. You don’t have to like what someone does with their own body to accept it. It doesn’t hurt you so don’t worry about it. God forbid people have some self expression

Things are muddied a bit though because USB 4 has built in support for thunderbolt

Brother, now that thunderbolt 4 has been introduced it’s even more confusing. Some of these labels are already out of date

Apple Earpods are very high quality actually, and are praised as a good cheap option by audiophiles

It just seems like cables bother you more than me. But I also don’t live in a city with a lot of walkability or good public transit. I would use wired headphones on my college campus, when I was done with them, I’d wrap them around my phone, unplug them and then slide the coiled wire loop off my phone and put them in my pocket. I also don’t care if the wires are out while my phone is in my pocket and my headphones are in. I’ve never run the wires through my shirt.

I used to run in highschool, and I just got used to holding my phone while I ran with headphones in. Idk man, maybe I’m just old lol.

Yes

Cabled headphones have gotten a lot better and cheaper, and no it’s a compression thing, here’s an article about it

https://www.soundguys.com/understanding-bluetooth-codecs-15352/

Right but you could better quality and the same quality of speakers for literally less than half the price, and they’ll be more repairable because all you need to do to fix them is solder some wire. I also disagree that they do everything better but that’s really subjective. I can see using wireless headphones at the gym and things, but wired headphones still very much have a place imo.

If you have earbuds with a case, you charge them every time you put them in the case, and to add insult to injury a majority of those batteries are not replaceable when they 100% could be. That’s really my biggest gripe, they’re made to be not only finite, but disposable. It’s just such a waste.

Scheduling issues usually becomes an NPC in my group lol

Yes the expected life span of a lithium ion battery is only 5 years, everything you get after that is just luck of the draw.

1. Bluetooth as an audio standard is factually lower fidelity

2. The average expected life span of a Li ion battery is 5 years

3. I don’t know how you kill headphones so quickly, but you can 100% get quality wired earbuds for a third of the price of wireless earbuds with nice, thick, threaded cable. The YouTuber dankpods has a few videos about this with recs for cheap, good headphones.

Bluetooth is lower fidelity, and I’d rather have tangled cables and ports than batteries that only last 5 years or less.

Jokes on you, de-aired, twisted, twist tied and tucked

That headline was a wild ride start to finish

+1

Used to have this reoccurring nightmare about once a year where my parents had to put me through this “rite of passage” where they would lock me in a cabin for like a week. At night a beast or entity? that looked dog like, but bigger, made of just muscles with sharp teeth would show up in the cabin and I’d have to survive.

The first time I was with an old man who saved me and showed me the ropes. The second time the old man refused to help me but was there to help me and give me hints. The third time it was just me and I had to make it all on my own. Really interesting series honestly.

Something something rule of thirds

I mean, it’s both, like a car, but we call that water cooled