• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    22 hours ago

    Sure, but what’s the use case at this point anyway?

    “My bluetooth headset ran out of battery and my phone ran out of battery and I want to listen to music.” 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 couldn’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 I’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 didn’t support bluetooth headphones for ages, despite having a BT receiver on board. No idea where the cable is for them now. I doubt I’ll need it again.

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      6 hours ago

      I genuinely couldn’t even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones.

      You haven’t seen me walking my dog daily then /shrug

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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      20 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, I’m not the average consumer, but the situation of “need to change while also wanting to use my headset” comes up often enough.