"Am I so out of touch?"
...
"No, it's the customers who are wrong!"
a1studmuffin
joined 1 year ago
I refer you to the coal mines being built in Australia.
Here's what I was referring to with the lightbulb thing and capitalism:
Remember when light bulbs used to last decades? A phone battery that lasts that long is incompatible with capitalism.
I'd much rather they invest efforts into supporting customisable phones. Instead of just releasing a few flavours of the same hardware each year, give us a dozen features we can opt into or not. Pick a base size, then pick your specs. Want a headphone jack, SD card, FM radio, upgraded graphics performance? No problems, that'll cost a bit extra. Phones are boring now - at least find a way to meet the needs of all consumers.
They're all over YouTube if you're curious
I remember walking through a store in a Jakarta mall a few years ago. I had no less than 7 employees courteously following me around in case I needed help.
I use it a few times a month. I've got fantastic Bluetooth earbuds, but occasionally in zoom calls I'll switch from my PC to my phone on the fly, and the wired PC headset comes with me since it's got a nice microphone and noise cancelling. I can't imagine trying to switch quickly like this with Bluetooth!
I also tend to use wired headphones when commuting in busy areas (city train stations etc.) as Bluetooth falls apart in these conditions... dropouts piss me off. I listen to offline MP3s for the same reason.
I've gone without before - my last phone didn't have a headphone jack and I never bothered with the USBC dongle because it was a pain - but having the flexibility is more convenient.
I only upgrade every 4-5 years, so it makes it easier to find a newish phone that has a headphone jack. It frustrates me that new laptops still include headphone jacks, but most new phones don't. It's a stupid inconsistency.
Saw these in the desert on a drive to Vegas over a decade ago as well. Honestly, seems like a pretty solved piece of technology. I think they meant to say "politically difficult" rather than "technically difficult" in the article.
I wouldn't blame these kids for taking extreme action later in life at the regime that killed their entire family. The only sensible option here is ceasefire.
Slight tangent, but I recently cleaned out the house of a parent after they passed away. There were boxes and boxes of family photo albums. We kept them for a while out of guilt, but we really didn't know anyone in the photos aside from one or two people. Eventually we got rid of them. Point being the value of your stuff is probably far less to others then it is to you, especially photos to future generations.
The simplest automations are the best. An hour before I typically get up, if the bedroom is too cold, turn on the heater.