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I need a new phone and I want to cry because it is seeming that the Pixel Pro with Graphene is the best I can do. New phones fucking suck, It' not about "I need the MAXIMUM PRIVACY 90000" it's "I want some control, I'm not buying a Samsung ever again due to the mountain of irremovable bloatware"

So sick of Nintendo doing stuff like this. Releasing the GBA SP and requiring a dongle to use headphones? What if I need to charge during a session of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance? This will never catch on.

im so tired of crappy usb-c dongles that stop working if my phone moves at all and bluetooth earbuds with shit battery i might just get an sd card with massive storage and use my old nintendo ds as a music player

Don't even get me started on the fact you can't just replace a fucking battery anymore.

Old man yells at radio waves.

The irony of the meme being that the food critic ends up loving Remy's ratatouille. Meaning Bluetooth would bring him to a simpler time like the ratatouille did in the movie

Old man yells at sky

I'm fascinated by this apparently critical sliver of venn diagram between "I value audio latency/marginal improvement in quality highly enough to be inconvenienced by messing with a headphone cable while on the go" vs "a dongle is too inconvenient".

*Apparently this is a really hot take. My point being the convenience gap between cable vs no cable is so much larger than the gap between dongle vs no dongle that I don't understand how it's a dealbreaker.

For those who are looking, the Sony Xperia line has a number of phones with both an sd card slot and a headphone jack.

My last phone purchase went something like this:

"What phones do you have with a headphone jack?"

"Uh, I don't think any. Maybe one? I'd have to look."

"I'll take that one."

"But we--"

"Only spec that matters is a headphone jack."

"There's bluetoo--"

"Headphone jack."

I've found that bluetooth headphones are about just as cheap as wired ones and being free of the cable makes a big difference.

Washing dishes? Don't have to worry about your phone being to far away from you.

Laying in bed? Don't have to worry about headphones getting pulled out of your ears because you rolled over.

Same goes for SD card readers! I don't want to pay extra for storage I already have!

And what do you know, Ego enjoyed a simple meal that finally broke his personal vendetta against the restaurant.

Enjoy your music.

let me use a goddamn headphone, Jack

Bluetooth is amazing, don't get me wrong. But it doesn't always work and it's hard to figure out why something won't connect. Plugging something works every time.

let me guess, you're also an Arch user? 😏

I, unfortunately, switched to a phone without a headphone jack. I hope to be able to switch back in a few years when I need a new one.

It's a real tragedy how basically nothing new these days comes with a headphone jack anymore.

My experience with smartphone headphone jacks is that they break really fast. Not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but bluetooth did solve that particular issue for me.

I don't untangle cord

Thankfully now there’s MagSafe charging so that frees up the lightning/usb-c for wired headphones

Used some wired earphones and then remembered why I use Bluetooth ones

I got a free phone but it didn't have a headphone jack, after trying them I really like the bluetooth earbuds.

I always yoinked out my headphones when working out with the wired ones.

There's a bunch of brands that make airpod quality earbuds for like $25

Does any flagship phone have a headphone jack nowadays? It's getting were even with budget phones. I'm holding on to my current old phone partially for that reason.

Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 pro has a headphone jack and replaceable battery. I think they are coming out with a new one soon too (or it might be out already). Its what I have and it works great. Kinda shitty camera but I don't really care

I also find it annoying that there's no headphone jack by default on most phones, but I just connected a usb-c to 3.5 mm to my headphones and use it them this way if I need to. Yes, it's a dongle, but it's small enough that it can just stay connected to my headphones jack and carried with them.

I. Don't. Say. Please. I. Don't. Say. Thank you. I. just. Do. What. I. Want. And. If. You. Want. to. Get. With. Me. You. Better. Give. Me. What. I. Want.

Same cadence in this song that this meme has.

I just realized my android phone doesn't have a headphones jack