• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      14 hours ago

      Sure, but whatā€™s the use case at this point anyway?

      ā€œMy bluetooth headset ran out of battery and my phone ran out of battery and I want to listen to music.ā€ How often does that really happen?

      Bluetooth is less cumbersome than all of these choices, but for under a tenner you can solve all these drawbacks. Whack it in a pocket of your travel bag with your earbuds and away you go. I genuinely couldnā€™t even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones. My bluetooth AKGs actually have a headphone socket, that Iā€™ve used exactly twice. Once to watch an in flight movie on a 480p screen on the back of a headrest, and again to use them with my Switch since for some bonkers reason it didnā€™t support bluetooth headphones for ages, despite having a BT receiver on board. No idea where the cable is for them now. I doubt Iā€™ll need it again.

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        13 hours ago

        I travel 8+ hours by train several times a week, and regularly go a day or two without access to power where I sleep. By all means, Iā€™m not the average consumer, but the situation of ā€œneed to change while also wanting to use my headsetā€ comes up often enough.