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> A lot of people wear airpods around even if they're not actively using them, right? Do they?
by anamexis 2y ago
> A lot of people wear airpods around even if they're not actively using them, right?
Do they?
- stirlo 2y agoYes. They’re easy to just leave in your ears and go about your day
- cpuguy83 2y agoEspecially with the loud noise suppression.
- charrondev 2y agoFor me it’s the opposite. They have a “transparency” feature that works lets through ambient noise. I often wear one set to transparency when I’m alone and have a podcast going or something. Ideal for something like a grocery store but still leaves me with full awareness. They also detect if I start speaking and automatically pause whatever is playing.
- dagmx 2y agoLoud noise suppression works with transparency mode. You might be thinking of the similarly named noise cancellation mode which works opposite to transparency. Loud noise suppression does a temporary switchover when a loud noise happens to try and protect your hearing.
- cozzyd 2y agoYes they do, and they look as ridiculous as you think
- KawaiiCyborg 2y agoHow would you as an observer tell if somebody is using their AirPods to listen to music or whether they're just in their ears for noise cancellation and thus "look ridiculous"?
- sambazi 2y agothat's the point: i can't tell and that is uneasing
- KawaiiCyborg 2y agoI don't understand why yet. Why is it important to you to know whether someone is listening to music or not? Why do you need to be able to tell at all?
- recursive 2y agoIt indicates whether you would be interrupting if you tried to talk to them.
- sambazi 2y ago...or be heard it's just fucking with social interaction; maybe that's the point
- philsnow 2y agoInterrupting what, music? I sometimes wear headphones without listening to music because I don't want my train of thought to be interrupted.
- cozzyd 2y agomusic, a telecon, who knows...
- sambazi 2y ago> I sometimes wear headphones without listening to music because I don't want my train of thought to be interrupted. totally understandable as the "right to be left alone" or privacy is essential but undeniably curtailed when in public. i hope you can appreciate the collective imperative here and acknowledge that it would be super fucked up if everyone would be wearing headphones in public.
- crazygringo 2y agoDepends on what is meant by "not actively using them". I use mine in noise-cancelling mode all the time, without music/podcasts/anything. But the noise-cancelling is definitely active. Always when I'm in the subway, along busy streets full of honking and emergency vehicles, and so forth. Makes urban life much more tolerable.