trinicorn

yiiiiikes that seems pretty bad, even for a group with no radical aspirations, sounds like you live in a fairly hostile local environment...

I guess smaller towns its probably harder to be anonymous but still.

And yeah I do think that there are a lot of depressing-ass orgs out there but hopefully you will find or slowly convert some people if you air your disagreements enough and engage with people personally. Or maybe shit hitting the fan will radicalize them for you. It's better to be prepared ahead of time but you can't win em all

Its nice to not be the most paranoid member of a group I gotta say. I'm not super bullish on organizing in the western left but the most valuable thing an org like that can give you IMO is connections. if and when it fails you'll still have those social connections and can use them to build something better in its ashes. Assuming they're not being dumb and engaging in stuff that will get you all doxxed and arrested while also being this lax on security, anyhow.

GroupMe is pretty rough but Signal isn't exactly bulletproof either, humans are usually the weakest link

Faaeal

huh idk what I expected by that description but it was defs something more exotic than 2005-style big round buds

I think Faaeal technically qualifies as chifi but BGVP also has a couple higher end options. I never liked that style though so I don't have personal experience with any of them https://bgvp.aliexpress.com/store/1101353038/pages/all-items.html?productGroupId=10000001069587

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802602143691.html

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805418464331.html etc. these brands all have at least one or two flat options

Seems like "flat" or "flat head" is the search term

lol yeah bose are the pinnacle boomer dad brand, but they're really closer to beats by dre than good studio headphones

My theory is that its at least partly the incredibly polluted nature of the 2.4Ghz band but bluetooth as a protocol has also always been fuckign atrocious

the Sony flagship WF-XM1004/5's are better,

uh about that

and the glitchiest ones have honestly been the Sonys.

oh you got there lol

Same those are the only individual buds I've ever owned/used for any length of time and I literally gave them away I disliked them so much. I got them for cheap thankfully. I'll keep my wired headphones and earbuds tyvm

its been that way for ages too lol, hardly gonna pass audiophile muster but if you don't mind bass out the wazoo they've been the standard decent in-store brand for >10 years now. I'd still go for the wired ones tho. or go online for moondrops, those things will blow anything in their price range out of the water. Harder to shoplift them from china tho

REAL

and that's 1980s technology, the essentially identical MDR-v6 has been around since at least 85, good sounding headphones were a solved problem lol

yeah the stock ones are pretty rough

model where the two actual earbuds are wired together

yeah those things are fuckin great compared to individual buds

(some) full size headphones get a pass IMO because they actually have enough space for an antenna that has a range greater than 6-12 inches, often have a backup wired input, and are generally held together with screws so you can actually replace the battery when it starts to go in like 2 years. individual wireless buds are the disposable vape of headphones. The sound quality is still likely to be worse, but I can at least understand the tradeoff, and the ANC requires it be stuffed with electronics anyhow so why not also make it wireless.