I would partially agree. No cloth can protect you from strong wind. In such case, I work from home 😅.

But that’s like… once or twice a year.

Well, that’s exactly what I do since last year. I use an electric bike (converted from a mechanical one), and if it takes time, it is actually faster than taking my car (40 minutes vs 1h+).
And I do it even in the winter, when we get bellow zero temperatures. I just dresses warmly.

Edit : The bike (Le Petit Porteur Longtail, wasn’t yet electrified at the time of this picture)

My cat once made himself my purring scarf once, when I had a bad flu.

The gray fur may commes from a Russian Blue, while still being considered a “domestic shorthair”. That race is just a way for a vet to say “I have no idea”, due to not corresponding to all the race traits, without looking like a fool. 😂

Mine was one too, here is a picture near his litter sister.

Both are domestic shorthair, but from different fathers.

Should probably be posted on !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world too.

Sky is a really good cozy game. And it is also available on PC, and works perfectly on the Steam Deck (with HDR).

I keep my boxes in two cases : the warranty is still valid, or the thing is fragile and has a form that make it hard to find a replacement for (usually large and fragile flat things, like screens).

All the other are waiting to be thrown away, in my garage.

Hold my cat, I’m going in! Or out, I don’t know…

Hum…

https://www.xatakaon.com/security/if-you-use-wired-headphones-youre-at-risk-theyre-the-ideal-scenario-for-hackers

Could also have been the other way around.

Fairphone removes the headphone jack > realize they would need an alternative > realize most TW headphones are e-waste to be > make their own with blackjack and hookers a removable battery, making it a solution to TW headphones with non-removable batteries.

Don’t call fool without any proof, or you’ll have a very sad life supposing the worst from anyone you’ll meet. Coincidence is no proof of causation.

I’m voluntarily exagerating my point here for irony sake.

My needs isn’t more important than anyone else, but I wanted to point out the selfishness of the oposite point of view by making mine as selfish. Those in favor of keeping a jack port voluntarily choose to ignore any alternative, while trying to force their need on other people.

But it is true I do not want that port back. It is redundant, has no advantages over a dongle, and it inconveniences could easily be overcome by simply adding a second usb-c port. No need for internal DAC, you’d be able to do far more than you’ll ever be able to do with a 3.5mm jack, and you’ll be able to charge it while listening to your music with a wired headphone. All that with a smaller and more flexible port.

And it would take you 5min searching the web to get good review about usbc DAC with actually good sound, even better than any internal DAC.

But to save you a click, you have the Apple one, which has good review while being able to drive almost all headphones but the most energy intensive of them. It cost a whopping… $10.

As for the precise number, you can find them on market studies. Unfortunately they are quite pricy, and as I’m not in that field, I do not have access to them. But Fairphone does, and if they don’t bother adding that port back, they are most probably basing their decision on them.

Problem is BT headphones last 2 years then they go in the garbage because the batteries are dead. How eco-friendly is that!?

My 7 years old bluetooth headphone would disagree.

It is. We had it on phones since before the original iPhone. No one wants to take that away.

And no one except a vocal minority want to keep it. There are a lot on data on that, and manufacturer make their decision on that data.

But lets ignore that, and let’s take my viewpoint as a customer. I don’t want a port I have no use for. I don’t want a DAC I have no use for. I don’t want the extra weight that comes with them.

My needs conflict with yours, so what’s the only way to make both of us somewhat happy? That’s by making the 3.5mm jack an addon, which is what any manufacturer that does not focus on music listening would do.

Phishing attacks? On a headphone? 🤣

Wired headphones can be intercepted, as the wires unfortunately also act as an antenna (I’m a computer security technician, we semi-routinely do such interception).

As for sound quality, it will always be limited by the DAC quality, and there is little way to add a good quality DAC without adding significant weight to the phone. Did you ever wonder why audiophiles audio players looks like bricks? That why.

But I agree with point 2, 3 and 5, they are valid, but I don’t agree with some aspects:

• You can make some TW headphones bips to find them, which you cannot with wired ones for obvious reasons.
• The cable is unfortunately often their weakpoints, and I had to throw away multiple of my headphones (which were fairly good quality ones) because of that. That’s actually the main reason I went wireless. I was tired of the cable breaking, and it getting in my way.

Now all my audio equipments are wireless, and I change their batteries every 5 years or so. Unfortunately I bought mines before Fairphone launched theirs, so it wasn’t an option, but once any of my headphones eat the dust for good, I’ll probably buy an easily repairable one if audio quality and codecs are acceptable (I’m an Audiophile, so that’s important to me).

The Fairbuds does have a replaceable battery if that’s what you are searching for. Sure, the sound won’t be as good as a Sony, Bose, or the like, but it would be good enough if your focus is durability instead of perfect sound quality.

Happy (bu)cake day.

@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world, damn, you’re a cat ? 😂

Not to defend that asshole, but calling his wife a peadophile may be inexact. Maybe a cougars, but not a paedophile.
We unfortunately have mostly first party testimony on how their love began, so it has to be taken with a grain of salt, but according to them it was Macron that fell in love, and wooed her first.
She refused, because he was underage at that time (and she was his teacher), but once he bacame an adult, he doubled down. And we know the result of that.
Of course that ask the question of possible grooming, but considering he is mature enough to think for himself, I think it isn’t something for us to judge.
Now if she surrounded herself with some kind of harem of youger men, that’d be a lot more suspect, but to this day they seem to be an harmonious couple, and faithful to each other.
Let’s not judge hastily other people love and story. There are probably a lot of other reasons we do not know.

“Delay”… 2h… Man, that isn’t a delay, that’s normal.

I not accusing any of you, I just hate that unrealistic expectation some have that a reply should be done in less than 10 minutes. 😅

The root goes further than Trump. But Trump sure showed the ugly face of US then hidden shadow.

Clearly. That’s when they showed that they’d attack anyone out of greed. Like they did in Irak.
Sadam was a brutal dictator, and I’m glad he’s gone, but fabricating proofs of weapon of mass destruction as casus belli…

I remember well that some, like the French, did not fall for it (having their own spy satellites sure helps, I suppose), but I do remember the mockery about the French surrendering once again. Well they were right in the end. I remember some GoP politician trying to rename French fries to Liberty fries. A petty way to try to get back at them, I suppose.