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

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    It also destroyed the “pass the aux cord” when driving with friends.

    “Hey, I want to show you a song. Pass the aux cord.”

    Plugs

    Plays

    Now:

    “Hey, I want to show you a song. Let me connect to your car’s Bluetooth.”

    “Oh, I can’t while the car is driving. Can you pull over for a minute?”

    “Which submenu was is it in? Bluetooth or Settings?”

    “Do you mind if I remove one of the devices already connected?”

    “Oh, it just auto-connected to your phone instead.”

    “Here, I’ll just send you a link.”

    “Your phone locked. Can you enter your password again?”

    “Oh, you don’t have [streaming service] premium? We’ll have to sit through an ad first.”

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        My old car was a Kia. (Don’t hate me. It was 2009, and I was earning $19,000 a year.)

        I got a used model that was the one higher than base, that included the deluxe audio package. Basically, it included an aux input and the crappy speakers had metal grills instead of plastic ones.
        I spent years trying to figure out why the aux jack never worked, until in 2014 I took apart the insides, and then took it to a dealership to confirm that the factory had installed the standard wiring harness, which didn’t include connectors for the aux jack. They said it would be cheaper to buy a new car than it would be to have them fix the wiring.
        I wound up missing the aux roadtrip experience entirely, and replaced the radio with one that did Bluetooth.
        Bastards.

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          If cheap is the goal and Honda is out of budget then Kia appears to be a wise choice.

          Why are you worried that others would be unhappy that you chose a Kia?

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            I’m still traumatized from Reddit, where everyone had an opinion, and the consensus is that whatever I said was wrong.

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      You can still do that if you want. My car’s bluetooth is finicky, so I just have a USB C->aux cable adapter I use. You can share between people and have them share their music. It doesn’t help with the password issues, but you absolutely can still use an aux cable with modern phones. You just need to use a USB C->aux rather than an aux->aux.

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        So glad the Europeans finally broke Apple and their ridiculous charger shenanigans. A coworker just got a new iPhone and asked me if I had an iPhone charger, I told them no all Ive got is USB C. They said they didn’t know what they had and showed me the bottom of their phone and, sure enough, it’s USB C. They had no idea that only Apple kept making their own charge connector and that basically everyone else had settled on one charger/data port like two or three standards ago.

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      You don’t just pass a phone around? Any long trip, start a queue, add a song, pass clockwise. And if you fuck up the queue and hit play by accident you have to do a shot wherever we end up.

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          You’re probably joking, but yeah, I don’t really hang out with people I don’t trust at this point in my life, I’m 37.

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      My civic has a Pioneer audio ui and I have an aux cord!! It’s a usb-c to aux but yeah. It works nicely. Too bad it’s USB-c and everyone’s phones still take lightning.

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      Why on earth would you not just hand them the phone to put a song in queue. Also what songs are exclusive to a specific streaming service? Just play it on whatever you were already listening on.