• Ulrich
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    512 days ago

    Headphone jack is e-waste

    you can use the usb C headphones

    What the absolute fuck are you talking about? What am I supposed to do with the dozen wired headphones I already have? Some of them decades old? Throw them in the garbage? Sounds real eco-friendly.

    bluetooth audio is great

    It is. We had it on phones since before the original iPhone. No one wants to take that away.

    Problem is BT headphones last 2 years then they go in the garbage because the batteries are dead. How eco-friendly is that!?

    • Dremor
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      112 days ago

      Problem is BT headphones last 2 years then they go in the garbage because the batteries are dead. How eco-friendly is that!?

      My 7 years old bluetooth headphone would disagree.

      It is. We had it on phones since before the original iPhone. No one wants to take that away.

      And no one except a vocal minority want to keep it. There are a lot on data on that, and manufacturer make their decision on that data.

      But lets ignore that, and let’s take my viewpoint as a customer. I don’t want a port I have no use for. I don’t want a DAC I have no use for. I don’t want the extra weight that comes with them.

      My needs conflict with yours, so what’s the only way to make both of us somewhat happy? That’s by making the 3.5mm jack an addon, which is what any manufacturer that does not focus on music listening would do.

      • Ulrich
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        12 days ago

        Tried that. Gets lost real fast. But thanks “freedom advocate”.

          • Ulrich
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            112 days ago

            Okay so now this is my fault. Do you know how many adapters I lost before I needed one?

              • Ulrich
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                011 days ago

                Is it my fault when having the things in the first place is just a hacky workaround driven by corporate greed?

                • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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                  011 days ago

                  Yes, it is your fault for losing or breaking your own property. Take some responsibility. When I moved to a phone without a headphone jack while driving a car that I plug my phone in via headphone jack, I simply kept the adapter plugged in to the cable in the car. It never broke. It never got lost. It stayed there until I got a Bluetooth head unit.

                  I’ve still got it in a drawer ready for if I ever needed it again, but since I’m not an audiophile with a $10k+ sound system listening to FLACs from my phone I don’t need it.

    • @Auth@lemmy.world
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      -212 days ago

      Yes if they’ve lasted decades thats their job done. Now people are buying usb C headphones and there is no need to continue to support decades old standards. The ewaste from a pair of headphones is tiny so its not worth fretting over.

      Also BT headphones last longer than 2 years. Mine are 1st gen samsung buds and going on 5 years at this point and still hold enough charge to listen to music during my work day. If im going to be using them all day I have 1 in and 1 charging in the case and then I can easily have music for 10+ hours on a 5 year old device. If I threw them away today I would consider them to have not been ewaste.