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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Boy I love paying a fuck ton of money for poor audio quality and shitty battery life.

Man I love being forced into technology that isn't better than the old thing and solves no problem (rather creating new ones) for the sake of keeping up with the Joneses because everyone was told this is the cool new thing so eat up piggies or FOMO.

Call me old (I'm not), call me a Luddite (I'm not), I don't care. You're wrong.

Sometimes new things being pushed by the market aren't the next leap in technology. Sometimes they are shit or pointless and should be abandoned, like 3D TVs. NEW DOESN'T ALWAYS EQUAL PROGRESS.

I feel the same about AI or touch screens being bundled into everything. Instead of the products they infect becoming better, they simply waste processing power that could have make the product perform better at the job it was originally designed to do.

A good example of this is when I once house sitted for a wealthy person. Their stovetop was all touch controlled. You want to know what doesn't work well with touch controls? Heat and water. What do kitchens and cooking on stove tops involve a lot of? FUCKING HEAT AND WATER.

So here I am cooking, shit, waters coming to boil. Shit, a tiny droplet of boiling landed on the touch controls and it thinks it's a finger. Shit, it thinks the finger is turning the temperature to max. Shit, it's not responding to my actual finger now until I wipe the water off. Shit, the pasta is now starting to overcook. I could just turn the element off, but shit, the off button is also touch operated. I how have remove the pot off the element. Wipe the control. Wait for it to cool. Hold my finger on the touch controls to readjust it to how I want. And turn this fucking thing off. It's all so slow. Why do this when a physical dial is so much cheaper and gives you instant control over the temperature with none of these problems?

Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this. You know I'm right.

The annoying thing is there is a lot of cool things we could be developing, I actually like the progress of technology when it's done right. But the problem is it's all being developed with impressing the market in mind, not for actually making things better.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

buttons and wires are good i-think-that

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Their stovetop was all touch controlled.

This is apparently normal now. My grandmother had to replace her stove recently and apparently all the budget stoves were those dogshit glasstops with shitty touch control buttons instead of just like cheap exposed coils and physical dials. I don't get it at all, everything about it is awful and so much worse than the cheaper established options it doesn't make any sense.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I like the glass tops because they're easier to clean than exposed coils. With you on the touch controls, however.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this. You know I'm right.

I'm trying but the touchscreen is wet

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Excited for the day my car finally is done for and I'll have to buy a car with a touch screen steering wheel or some shit proletariat

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Wireless earbuds are generally bad and are pushed too much, but they do have usecases.

Touch controls for a stove is pure madness.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Call me old (I'm not), call me a Luddite (I'm not), I don't care.

Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this. You know I'm right.

You are both old and a Luddite, and also are correct, sorry. The tech sector has nothing new to offer, so desperate not to drown it latches onto any trend it can trying to make it the next big thing. Or like any old business, does everything to minimize cost and maximize profit. I wouldn't say this rant is pointless, it's good to vent about this stuff.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this

Your water splattered touch screen oven is doing that for us already

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I used to hold this opinion but my wireless headphones are really good, plus they have a spot for a jack in case I need it. I used to go through cables like every month because they would get twisted and the cable would snap. With my wireless headphones I don't have that problem anymore. I do think that wireless headphones should come with an option for a jack though.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah I think people are forgetting how inconvenient cables of wired heaphones dying really were. Sure wireless headphones have their drawbacks but overall IMO they're an upgrade.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I don't think it's always that so much as remembering how infuriating earlier wireless headphones were, every single pair I used to get in my teens lasted barely a year before something started making them unusable.

And compared to when wired headphones start experiencing problems there was way less of a dying period, when the wireless died it was just the end of the line right away, which sucks if you dont have the money to get another pair right away.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I find it really hard to find good ones, but then most headphones in general are balanced terribly for Early Music. The PXC 550s are decent throwaways, I've found, but yet to find any I'd consider "good". Earbuds proper are pretty much universally trash.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Wireless headphones are great cos they stay on yojr head. Earbuds/earphones are tiny and shitty and fall out :/

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah the new ones are super cool they--*right ear falls out straight into a sewer*

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah but have you tried wireless bone conducting headphones? It's like having a soundtrack for your life!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah but those can make some deaf people actually hear music which is fucking cool

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I will scour the internet for old phones with headphone jacks

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Might be skill issue but they always fall out for some fucking reason. I have no idea how to make them fucking stick there 🥲

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

How could I roast you when I agree with everything you just said meow-cactus

You probably already know this but you can use IEMs (they have cheaper ones now) or regular old earphones with a DAC if you don't want to use bluetooth earpods but I bet it would be annoying to use on the couch as your USB port on the phone is probably at the bottom and use still have to pay extra for the DAC doggirl-growl

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

personally i prefer wired earbuds, but i do have a nice set of cheap bluetooth ones from a six-letter that cost me ~$25 equivalent and are perfectly fine for things like audiobooks and podcasts
battery lasts about 6 hours on a 40 minute charge and the little charging box thing is good for about 5 charges before it's dry

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Touch screens are used because they're cheaper than dials n buttons. It's just another way things get shittier for the sake of profit

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

My bluetooth earbuds are great, they can run 8 hours with ANC on before needing to go back in the case, the case holds another 32 hours of charge for them, and even if they do die it only takes 10 minutes to get an hour of charge on them. The sound isn't quite as good as the wired headphones I use at home, but I only use them when I'm out and about so they're competing with background noises anyway, and it isn't that much worse that I'd particularly care if I were using them somewhere quiet.
Really the only downside I've found is the ever so slight lag when watching a video, and even then I'm watching something on my phone so I'm not looking for perfect audiovisual fidelity.

Also wired earbuds dug their own grave, I only bought the wireless ones because a wired set had caught on something and the jack broke off in the audio port. I'm not buying a whole new fucking phone just so I can get wired earbuds caught on something again.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Wireless earbuds fall out of your ear too easily. I had these ones years ago that were like earbuds with a band between them like headphones would have that went behind your head, and they looped over the top of your ear. Stayed on really nicely, and were still wireless without being easy to lose.

Another thing that drives me crazy is when earbuds or headphones have touch controls. I have a pair of wireless earbuds that i will try to push back in my ear when they fall out and itll pause the music, and then i wont be able to get it to play again, so i have to take out my device and play it again from there. Its horrible. Why put touch controls on something so tiny that you have to touch constantly?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Not as annoying but still, some monitors have touch sensors instead of buttons. Very easy to activate unintended function. If they are actually cheaper than regular buttons, they are not that annoying but I doubt it. I also how pc cases are ditching somewhat old functions for rgb stuff. A new case I bought doesn't have reset button, it is replaced with rgb button. What is the purpose? If user cares about rgb, they are gonna synch with rest of the case with argb cable. If user doesn't care about it, we'll the button is useless now. This case is not a budget case either. Also it doesn't have a hdd led but tbh even I can not say it is that useful

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I hate all the other stuff you mentioned but you can still buy wired earbuds. I will buy the wireless ones for work please don't take them from me

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bought a pair for conference calls cos office loud and work doesn't supply shit.... Literally roll of a dice if the audio or mic works or maybe one will and the other won't or both say connected but don't do anything. It also takes 2 minutes to pair.... Why. The set i have basically came damaged on arrival the right earpiece bit that detects being in the ear doesn't work properly and always thinks its in an ear. Support said to reinstall the firmware which takes like an hour to do and sets my phone on fire for some reason. Pairing on linux and can't get aptx codecs to work so it constantly goes into low power mode and cuts off audio etc.

Cable... Just works

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