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Thanks god the headphone jacks died in smartphones. I switched to USB-C soundcard cables which are dirt cheap and survive much much more plug-unplug-cycles. Th

Thanks god the headphone jacks died in smartphones. I switched to USB-C soundcard cables which are dirt cheap and survive much much more plug-unplug-cycles. They easily can be replaced.

raverbashing 10mo ago
The epidemic of people not wearing headphones has been directly caused by the lack of headphone jacks
- ffguhv 10mo ago
  LOL. People not using headphones in public are narcissistic a-holes, but they’ve been doing it since *long* before headphone jacks went missing from smartphones.
  - conception 10mo ago
    It’s even noted as a problem in the beloved, acclaimed piece of cinema - Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home.
- j1elo 10mo ago
  A couple days ago there was a bit of a conversation about this, you might find it interesting. It seems this feeling (to the point of calling it an "epidemic"!) might be caused by the known bias of thinking that earlier times were better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424228
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- Findecanor 10mo ago
  I find that people speaking very loudly into their wireless headsets wherever they are and whomever they are with is a bigger nuisance. When you speak to someone in person, you'd adjust the volume of your voice to the room and the recipient without thinking about doing it. The engineers who built the analogue phone system were aware of this effect, and made it so that you heard yourself in the handset's speaker. The engineers who designed the cell phone standards decided to ignore this so they could do more echo-cancellation. It is not a big problem when people are speaking into a slate-shaped cell phone, but when people wear headphones that attenuates their own voice, they hear themselves less and speak extra loudly to compensate.
- aidenn0 10mo ago
  I see more people with headphones now that BT headphones are everywhere...
Lammy 10mo ago
USB-C is creepy in its own way, because it lets the host computer uniquely identify each pair of headphones. Even my USB-C-to-3.5mm adapter has a USB descriptor field whose key is a UUID and whose value is the adapter's manufacture time in an ISO timestamp down to the second it got programmed at the factory.

Thanks god the headphone jacks died in smartphones. I switched to USB-C soundcard cables which are dirt cheap and survive much much more plug-unplug-cycles. They easily can be replaced.

raverbashing 10mo ago

The epidemic of people not wearing headphones has been directly caused by the lack of headphone jacks

ffguhv 10mo ago
LOL. People not using headphones in public are narcissistic a-holes, but they’ve been doing it since *long* before headphone jacks went missing from smartphones.
- conception 10mo ago
  It’s even noted as a problem in the beloved, acclaimed piece of cinema - Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home.
j1elo 10mo ago
A couple days ago there was a bit of a conversation about this, you might find it interesting. It seems this feeling (to the point of calling it an "epidemic"!) might be caused by the known bias of thinking that earlier times were better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424228
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Findecanor 10mo ago
I find that people speaking very loudly into their wireless headsets wherever they are and whomever they are with is a bigger nuisance. When you speak to someone in person, you'd adjust the volume of your voice to the room and the recipient without thinking about doing it. The engineers who built the analogue phone system were aware of this effect, and made it so that you heard yourself in the handset's speaker. The engineers who designed the cell phone standards decided to ignore this so they could do more echo-cancellation. It is not a big problem when people are speaking into a slate-shaped cell phone, but when people wear headphones that attenuates their own voice, they hear themselves less and speak extra loudly to compensate.
aidenn0 10mo ago
I see more people with headphones now that BT headphones are everywhere...

Lammy 10mo ago

USB-C is creepy in its own way, because it lets the host computer uniquely identify each pair of headphones. Even my USB-C-to-3.5mm adapter has a USB descriptor field whose key is a UUID and whose value is the adapter's manufacture time in an ISO timestamp down to the second it got programmed at the factory.