A good example is perfectly good wired headphones (which can last 10+ years at least with proper care and maintenance) being swept aside for battery-powered wireless options which are 1) incompatible with older devices and 2) will die after enough battery charge-discharge cycles, forcing you to buy a new one.

[–] Virulent@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah but wired headphones suck if you do anything but sit still or lay down when listening to something

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love my weird headphones. They are cheap and they work. When they break I get some new ones.

I can buy dozens of pairs for the same price that some idiot paid for air pods.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

the real shit is good drivers and a user-replaceable cable. a little more up front but you can still replace the part that usually breaks for cheap and they sound way better.

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

This is why I bought a Bluetooth dongle called a Fiio BTR5

The dongle itself is the wireless Bluetooth bit. You just shove whatever wired headphones you want into it

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

apripo of nothing what do you think would happen if the people who work with the atomic clocks just decided to unplug them from the network?

[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry I don't understand your question?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

she meant "apropos". it's a non-sequitur but she is speculating about what would happen if the primary sources our society uses for standard time stopped communicating

[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All digital infrastructure would collapse if our society lost its ability to coordinate on time, but I don't see how this would affect Bluetooth headphones.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they'd have nothing to connect to

my radio still has a headphone jack, though

[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You would still be able to connect it to your phone. Your phone, however, would not have any Internet.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm generally doing a lot of movement while wearing headphones, whether it's walking, working, or cycling, so I've found wireless headphones have lasted much longer than my old wired ones as well as being more convenient.
Wired headphones do have a bunch of advantages, but so do wireless, and product lifetime isn't a great measurement when it's dependent on use.

edit: A better example would be smartphones, with support for models being dropped within a few years, and them slowly becoming more and more incompatible with new features, regardless of their physical condition.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

I've found the opposite, but then I wear giganitc studio headphones with a removable jack cable, so if it breaks i can just shove a new cable in.