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  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.nettoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldEarbuds
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    11 days ago

    Oh my god how I hated those headphones with cable. I destroyed at least 3 phones because of them. I would have them in and walk and would want to do something on the phone and suddenly I’d get caught on the cable while moving and the cable would jerk the phone out of my hand and it would land on the asphalt and the screen would break. And fixing the screen is so expensive, it’s better to buy a new phone, or just live with a broken screen where you cut your fingers on.

    Since I switched to Bluetooth headphones this literary never happened again. And every single one of the problems described here has a fairly good solution, at least with the Samsung ones I have:

    • I need to charge them perhaps once every two weeks, so I really don’t remember when they would have been without charge at a inconvenient time.

    • I can find them by several means:

      • They’re connected to the find my device samsung network, so even if they are not close they will be picked up by other Samsung devices. I forgot them at a hotel 500km away, searched for them and found them
      • I can play a sound
      • The Bluetooth can show me to which direction to go and how far away they are
    • They never lost Bluetooth connection, I can even connect them to two devices at the same time

    The only point would be the cost, they do cost a lot more. But compared to buying a new phone constantly because the cable hangs somewhere and jerks the phone out of your hand, even this is undeniably cheaper.







  • It’s probably 15 years ago I used XMPP the last time. Back then there were many compatibility problems between the apps and especially on the mobile phone with push notifications, etc. There were problems sending media and VOIP calls were non existent outside of the Google clients.

    My guess is that some of those things improved but I have not heard anyone in my circles using it, especially since Matrix became a bit more popular, most of the Open Source projects on IRC also moved to Matrix.