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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My phone, laptop, & DAP all conveniently have a headphone jack so I can enjoy better quality sound, with no lantency, no spotty connectivity, no pairing lag, no need for firmware upgrades or proprietary apps, a cheaper price, easy to find the monitors since they are tethered together, & with better sustainability without lithium ion batteries while never have to worry about charge either.

What was the upside of wireless again?

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The upside is "my phone is a bitch and doesn't have a jack."

I fucking wish, but GrapheneOS was more important to me.

Edit: oh sorry just realized you're on .ml, "my phone is a doody-head and doesn't have a jack."

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whereas my approach is the opposite where I refuse GrapheneOS since I can’t have headphone jack πŸ˜„

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Understandable lol, it's my only complaint (well and no microSD.)

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lucky bastard lol. At least my phone is free from the constraints of google and has the bootloader relocked! I'm considering getting a dedicated MP3 player like the good ol days but then I'd need a fanny pack for all the shit I'd be carrying.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I have a $100-ish DAP that works pretty well & I use it regularly for music, & as a DAC, & as a tether from a wireless Bluetooth device to it with my wired IEMs in it. There are things in the category that can work for you on a budget, but I would hesitate to recommend the actual one I have.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I understand the complaints because I hated it when Pixel dropped the jack. But it can be a smoother process than jacks.

I get in my car and no longer fumble to pull my phone out and plug it in. Pairing is quicker than plugging in a cable.

When doing yardwork I used to have to fish my cord through my shirt or it would get caught and yanked out by a tree branch. Even then it was cumbersome because of too much slack or too little slack causing disconnects or snags.

It's not perfect. A downside that still might exist (I bypassed the problem years ago so I don't know if they ever fixed it.) was Google's auto pairing that wasn't able to be turned off. When I walked close to the house from outside, my phone would decide on its own to pair with speakers in the house. But that's a Google problem, not Bluetooth. It didn't exist with Nexus because you could manually control pairing.

EWaste is a problem.