Sanyanov @ Sanyanov @lemmy.world

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Absolutely that, confirm as OP.

Wired headphones don't have to incorporate their own DACs, which means any budget wired set will be better than wireless one of the same price - everything can go into the actual analog part of the equation.

The adapter is extremely inconvenient, it's a small dongle that is easy to lose and you can't even charge your phone and listen to music at the same time, which I personally do very regularly. Besides, making everything go through one port increases wear and tear and reduces reliability of the device.

3,5mm jack doesn't take any significant amount of space and the value of extra teeny tiny piece of battery is ridiculously low. This has always felt like a bullshit excuse to me.

Just my 2 cents.

First, same was said years ago, yet 3,5mm is still there in many modern phones - and I for one am happy about it.

Second, if we were to move our audio to usb-c (why, though?), please make two ports instead of one. Forcing everything through one physical port adds a lot of everyday inconveniences and reduces reliability.

Thank you!

Much appreciated, unironically. All hail the fedi!

The difference here is that 3,5mm jacks are not obsolete.

Nobody besides a few grumpy folks opposed the switch from microUSB to Type-C, for example, because we got something better instead.

Floppy drives got obsolete, because again, we got something better - disks! And then flash drives! Always a better, more convenient and functional option.

3,5 mm jack, however, is still completely relevant and is not replaced by anything. It is the only widely adopted consumer-grade standard for analog wired audio. Wireless audio has objective drawbacks: one more battery to control, lower reliability, poorer sound quality (not a big issue with most phones since their DACs are normally not audiophile-grade anyway, but still), higher price, pairing issues, and many more. And USB-C to 3,5mm dongles are obviously terrible: they can get lost, they don't allow you to listen to music while charging your phone/transferring files, and they are yet another component to manage.

Essentially, wireless audio has been pushed down our throats, and we do not appreciate that. For me, not having a 3,5mm jack is one of the criterions that immediately kill any desire to buy that phone. It will just be a massive pain in the ass for me, and I don't want that.

I feel the price is justified as they make way less sells by employing the longevity-oriented tactics. They need to return the money somehow.

With that being said, price is still a big concern. As things stand, Fairphones are still enthusiast-grade product, being way more expensive than alternatives in the same spec range. While buyers expect it to serve them for almost a decade and put that into price calculations, they're most likely to change it quicker.

And as a person for whom the price of Fairphone 5 is two monthly salaries, I have to pass anyway. I still commit to green electronics while saving a buck by buying used phones in a good condition - super green, fairly cheap. And I recommend everyone on a budget (or even just ideologically) to do the same, as the most green phone is the one you don't have to manufacture.

Lack of one is an immediate showstopper for me, too.

Based

You outfreed us all

I can install Arch blindfolded without archinstall, but I don't think it is the superior option.

It is either unstable or maintenance-heavy, depending on how you treat it, compared to other distributions.

It is bleeding-edge though, and pretty memory-effective and speedy.

Windows is shit

I use Linux btw

As a person who just paid a fuckton of money to publish in open access (literally half an hour ago), that HURTS.

Open Access is good, but first we have to abolish an entire publisher industry that lays insurmountable costs - either on readers or researchers themselves. Their work is not remotely worth that money. By making it a public good, we can cut down on so much unnecessary expenses.

And then to continue moving this way you'd have to unstick and move away the magnet, which would require just the same energy it takes to move the truck this far away

How do you jump from "searching for pedo friendly communities" to "looking to get off"?

Imagine being a gay in a country where you'll be in real danger if you'll ever mention it. Would you like to have someone at least online to talk about how you feel? Probably yes. Same idea. It's hard to hold up things that big throughout life, as just about any closeted LGBT+ person will tell you.

And then with any attraction that is actually dangerous and also illegal when acted on, like, well, pedophilia, or zoophilia, or biastophilia, or God knows what, there will always be people in doubt on whether they should go for it or not. And a community of people with the same issue telling them "we know how you feel, but CERTAINLY NO" would be way more productive than randoms on the Internet shaming them and putting them into the same bin as actual rapists.

Of course, most of them will probably never offend regardless. But people in doubt, as well as people in mental distress, are to always keep in mind. And if you ignore them, you get more child abuse, more suicides, and more pain and suffering in the world.

Besides what another commenter noted about indistrialization being product of capitalism and then fierce competition, here's one more thing:

Do you see all those green activists buying reusable bags? Taking their bottles, recycling everything? Well, this has already been there in the past, and most notably - in socialist countries. Pretty much till its death USSR, for example, heavily favored reusable things, there just weren't plastic bags and plastic bottles and all that waste, and recycling, especially of glass and metal and paper, was a super normal thing and people got money/trade-in for that.

If they are pro-Nazi, they are probably just Nazi

If they are pedos, they are probavly pro-pedos

Here's something I found on the issue:

https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748904403-279.pdf

TL;DR it very much depends on the nature of the platform, but peer support platforms like Virtuous Pedophiles seem to be more good than bad, helping in combating child sexual abuse.

It looks like it's repaid in souls

This suddenly sounded psychopatic

In simple terms: metal is just as much attracted to magnet as magnet is to metal, this is fundamental and doesn't change under any circumstances.

So the force driving the car forward is exactly equal to the force driving the car backward, and you can't have one without the other.

In Russia we absolutely say "12th of December, 2023".

12 декабря 2023.