Stocks, Investing, Gambling, Bitcoin .etc
Look, I’m not a fucking broker or a hustler, okay? I don’t care that you keep running around telling me or others to go waste our time and money to put into markets that can be incredibly unpredictable. It is all about luck, chance and risk. Things most wouldn’t want to put themselves on the line over even if they were down next to nothing. They’d rather buy lottery tickets.
It’s absolutely a personal preference. Some people don’t care, others do. A 3.5mm headphone jack is a requirement for any phone that I buy along with a micro SD card slot. It’s getting more and more difficult to find devices that meet those requirements but that’s a choice that I make. Along with unlockable bootloader and the ability to be rooted, but that’s a whole different issue.
3.5mm headphone jack just works with anything you plug into it and it has for decades. No pairing, no charging headphones or earbuds, no latency, better sound quality, no having to choose between charging the device and having audio output OR find the right OTG dongle.
A lot of people don’t care about this at all and that’s fine. But for those of us who do I really hope that these options don’t disappear entirely just to sell more Bluetooth earbud garbage and cloud storage subscriptions.
I will give USB the benefit of providing power, which permits for active noise cancellation. You want ANC on headphones that have a 1/8 inch TRS plug, you gotta get power somewhere, like a battery. But, yeah, kinda sucks to either tie up the only port on the phone or deal with (even a small) passthrough adapter hanging off the headphones.
If you could get a case designed for your phone that had an embedded USB hub, pass-though USB port, MicroSD USB Mass Storage adapter, and audio adapter, would you tolerate that? The angle of the headphones jack might be constrained to come out of the left or right of the case.
Yeah, I find most wireless headphones sound like hot garbage compared to decent 20$ headphones (Koss KSC75, moondrop chu’s). Any actually decent sounding pair are usually expensive as hell.
I tried really hard to like wireless, I have had like eight different pairs ever since they really came out and disliked all of them. They’d always break, all of the time, constantly. Out of those, like 4 or 5 of them broke in less than a year. Most decent pairs of earbuds and headphones will have replaceable cables, and I know how to solder to repair those that don’t.
Nowadays I completely avoid them, they’re just e-waste disguised as earbuds. I work in computer repair and these things are 9 times out of 10 completely impossible to repair.