Re the first part: nobody enters my house if they don’t have a key and I’m not present. Re the second part, I don’t trust any software-based technology near enough to rely on that kind of stuff without double-checking. . Turn the key, done.
To this day I don’t know what problem smart locks are supposed to solve that hasn’t already been solved by the good old lock and key combo. Requires no electricity, no internet, just works.
That means they’re not for your ears. Not that they’re designed to inflict pain. I’ve had those AirPods, they were fine for me - and my ears don’t like most earbuds that get shoved in there, and sometimes even start hurting from over-ear headphones. I now have the Airpod Pros and they’re even better, all that goes into your ear is the silicone bud, no rigid plastic in the mix.
Sometimes good enough is good enough.
Strange how I’ve been using wired headphones with my phones until two years ago, even though I haven’t had a phone with a headphone jack since 2017…
I have one Lightning-to-Jack adapter that was included with my old iPhone 8, and two pairs of EarPods with Lightning plug that were included with subsequent models.
Besides that, the claim was that the headphone jack was removed to force people into buying AirPods. But that claim falls down when there clearly were other, non-Bluetooth options.
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The only reason headphone Jacks got taken away was so you’d be forced to buy Bluetooth solutions. Like AirPods.
Totally. That’s why they never made adapters and never included cabled earphones with lightning plug. It was AirPods or nothing.
How old are you? And doesn’t your second question contradict your first?
If you were being serious: iPhones have had headphone jacks until 2016, the iPhone 7 was the first to come without one.
I believe it was for waterproofing. One less port means less sealing, making it easier to improve the waterproofing of the phone.
I couldn’t possibly tell you how many sets of wired headphones I’ve had to throw out in my life because of frayed/broken cables. Those things are e-waste too.
Ever since I’ve gotten some decent noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones, I don’t really care where the headphone jack is or even if there is one. It happened way too many times that the cable got snagged on something and yanked the buds out of my ears, and I’m well past the age where I had the cable under my shirt and the earbuds dangling in front of me all the time. Especially when running or otherwise exercising, I don’t miss the cable one tiny bit.
Generally, don’t skimp on anything that goes between you and the ground. Shoes, mattresses, tyres… your future you will hate you for cheaping out on those.
Cattle, and the things you describe, are the result of human intervention…
It’s kinda like rule 34: if it exists, there will be people who collect it.
Repping brands. Like tshirts that say Oakley or under armor on them. Why are you wearing a shirt that says under armour, but isn’t the actual under armour? You paid them to advertise for them you rube
I don’t wear shirts, t-shirts or other clothes with clearly visible logos or brand names, unless I got the piece for free or even am getting paid to wear it.
Exceptions are music/band gear, if I like the band, and sports gear, because it is so fucking hard to find decent sports gear without visible logos and brand names.
I always preferred Seagate spinning steel over Western Digital. I’ve had some WD drives fail horribly, unexpectedly and very prematurely on me. My PC today still has some Seagate HDDs in it that are approaching 15 years of age.
Germany has some great tasting cola brands that are nothing like Pepsi or Coke (and aren’t trying to be either).
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is a prolific anti-Semite.
I know this as ‘eat your frogs’.