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Earbuds
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We used to have earbuds that don't need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn't get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k
Reception cuts out of I turn wrong. Headphone batteries are usually flat when I decide I want to listen to something or take a call. Phone wants to pair with every other BT device except the headphones (save for the time it somehow forgets them and I have to dive into the menu and re-pair). Old phone's BT is starting to get flaky. So much latency no matter what. Sound quality still not there yet.
I do like not having a cord, but literally everything else about bt headphones is a step backwards against simplicity & longevity. I have minidisc equipment from the early oughts that still sounds fantastic on the PortaPros I also got at that time.
Also you kids get off my lawn, apparently
Don't take this the wrong way but it sounds like the last time you tried Bluetooth headphones was 2012
No wrong way to take it - my complaints do sound like ye olden days of BT.
I have a pair of Shockz bone conductors and a MiniRig 4, both of which I enjoy quite a bit. I have also run into all of these issues in the past year. My post was mostly meant to counter the statement that Bluetooth is so far ahead of old tech. Sure it's great, but like any tech, it has fail points
I have a bunch of different wired headphones (an embarrassing number of them) and they just don't fail. I've never had a headphone jack fail on me. The sound is great - no batteries, no connection time, no latency, no compression, literally plug & play. There just isn't much that can go wrong with them, so for me, BT is a convenience (when I don't feel like having a cord) but not necessarily an improvement
The key being: for me. Everyone else, if you love BT, keep enjoying it