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I can’t remember ever being frustrated by having a simple 3.5mm headphone cord; I remember often being glad to have it when I would drop my phone or iPod or earbud and it would catch on the cord.

I’m am frustrated almost DAILY by Bluetooth and various connection issues. If I drop an earbud while running or cycling it’s basically an immediate $100+ loss.

I couldn’t imagine being a teenager in current year trying to watch romance films in my moms basement and accidentally connecting to the living room surround sound



> I can’t remember ever being frustrated by having a simple 3.5mm headphone cord

I've got a couple devices with bad jacks, and I've ruined the cables on a couple of sets of headphones, but overall, wired headphones continue to just work and don't have batteries, so any device intended to use headphones that doesn't have a 3.5mm jack is defective.

Bluetooth seems to work ok enough in my cars, most of the time.


I don't know what we expected — it's (literally) intentionally less secure WiFi.


I don't know that it's the expectation vs reality at this point, as much as it is the denial of reality. But then again sometimes I feel like that's a hallmark of our time.


"Romance" films? Lol




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