We used to have earbuds that don't need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn't get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k

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[–] 224 points 2 years ago (58 children)

But they did tangle all the time. That was annoying.

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  • [–] 151 points 2 years ago (48 children)

    And the cord would sometimes break inside/connector went bad.

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  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, you'd snag the wire or slightly bend the connector and then you were just playing a game of making sure it stayed plugged into the exact right angle.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (43 children)

    and then you'd just replace them with one of the other three dozen you bought from Wal-Mart for five bucks back in 2016

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (41 children)

    And people wonder how the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and others like it came to be 🤦

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    hey I'll have you know I keep all my broken earbuds in the same box in the garage with all the other cables and assorted dongles I can no longer identify and will likely never use, like any responsible citizen should

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    If you think Bluetooth earphones won't also be in that pile once the batteries stop holding charge after 2 years, you're in for a world of dissapointing sex

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    My AirBudz are over five years old and still play for like five hours before I need to charge them… and I used them 40+ hours daily for all of those years.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I don't think earbuds make up a significant percentage of the patch to be here virtue signaling and shaming people for what they were encouraged to do by corporate greed. Your source says the great majority of the patch comes from agriculture and fishing.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I don't think earbuds make up a significant percentage of the patch

    Cheap and disposable plastics and electronics IS a significant part of the world garbage problem and yes, plastic particles is MOST of the garbage patch specifically.

    be here virtue signaling and shaming people for what they were encouraged to do by corporate greed

    Whoa, dude, hold your horses! I'm in no way blaming consumers. Making consumer electronics cheap crap that breaks easily and everything of decent quality prohibitively expensive is 100% on the greedy corporations, not their victims the consumers.

    Your source says the great majority of the patch comes from agriculture and fishing.

    Ok, admittedly a poor choice of example. Doesn't invalidate my intended point though, however ill-stated heh

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is tough -

    Making consumer electronics cheap crap that breaks easily and everything of decent quality prohibitively expensive is 100% on the greedy corporations, not their victims the consumers.

    (US here) Gets me thinking about dollar store headphones. Consumers could buy decent headphones for about $10 direct from overseas. When that’s equivalent to more than an hour of wages, there’s still demand for the $1 version. Should this need not be met out of a sense of social responsibility?

    (I don’t have a perfect answer myself)

    Econ 101 on my mind here btw:

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The problem is that our economic system has encouraged an environment where reputation is a thing to be immediately cashed out. You can't even know if those $10 earbuds are any better than the $1 version.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    I'm here for the wired headphone -> pacific garbage patch vs lithium battery child labor -> wireless headphone fight 🍿

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Or we could just have quality standards and price controls so that regular people can afford decent headphones that don't break all the time whether they prefer wired or wireless 🤷

    And a worldwide ban on child labor, of course.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Don’t fool yourself. Slave labor of children is not exclusive to batteries. They make most of the world’s textiles, for example.

    https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods-print

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Did I give you the impression I was fooling myself, or were you just speaking to the wider audience?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    You think wireless earbuds are better?? lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Earbuds? Yes.

    Real headphones? Nah

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'd imagine the limited lifespan of their batteries and the fact that they have ones to begin with would be of bigger concern

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s fair. My first pair still works awesome after five years, and I’ve used them for 40+ hours a week for that whole time. I only have a new pair because I needed ANC, but I still use my old pair to sleep.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah! That's why I loved Sennheiser IEMs, they had oval cables that never tangle up, no matter what you do. Still have a pair for my Switch

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Remember when they got stuck somewhere and yanked out of your ears? Somehow my Bluetooth headset don't get that because it has Bluetooth

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You know you don't have to dangle cables about willy-nilly at full length? You can partially wind them up or tie a loose knot so they're effectively shorter, or hold them in place under clothes or a peg or anything. I thought this was self-explanatory?

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