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I need a new phone and I want to cry because it is seeming that the Pixel Pro with Graphene is the best I can do. New phones fucking suck, It' not about "I need the MAXIMUM PRIVACY 90000" it's "I want some control, I'm not buying a Samsung ever again due to the mountain of irremovable bloatware"
Happy Motorola G 84 user here. The only ding is the camera isn't the best but for the price this couldn't be beat.
Not being allowed to uninstall facebook should be a crime.
I just bought an A34 for my mom. I was able to remove all the bloat directly from the launcher, except for some Galaxy apps. For the rest, I used ADB.
For real. Samsung's sheer quantity of bloatware on every phone is ridiculous. It's the primary reason I'm never buying from them again, aside from just plain old privacy concerns.
I have a Galaxy Note 9 from the days of yore and it's beginning to show its age, I need to replace it before it completely shits the bed, but like, what am I supposed to replace it with?
I need a headphone jack, I need it to be powerful enough to run modest phone games to the tune of Arknights and similar, and I want to feel like I have a half decent amount of control over it (no apps I can't remove within reason)
I too was disgruntled with samsung and chose a pixel and grapheneOS. It does not have a headphone jack but I can reluctantly live with that. It has been the best OS i have ever used and I didn't even have to root it.
And no sdcard, which is a real pain in the ass for a lot of people, I think, it's more of a problem, than just the headphone plug.
Very much so. That is indeed the worst part about the pixel.
Same same
So sick of Nintendo doing stuff like this. Releasing the GBA SP and requiring a dongle to use headphones? What if I need to charge during a session of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance? This will never catch on.
Sadly it's more profitable to force users to buy more shit
That wasn't even the reason for that change. There just plain wasn't much room on the GBA SP for a headphone jack. People have modded them in aftermarket but every single one of the possible positions looks like crap and the GBA was never the pinnacle of audio hardware. In fact, the headphone jack made a triumphant return on every handheld Nintendo has released since the GBASP, including the GBA Micro.
(I am not saying there weren't good bops on the GBA, most Pokemon tunes are incredible. Just that audio quality was never a priority for design on the GBA.)
im so tired of crappy usb-c dongles that stop working if my phone moves at all and bluetooth earbuds with shit battery i might just get an sd card with massive storage and use my old nintendo ds as a music player
I just bought a €10 mp3 player off aliexpress.
See, this might be ok if there were two of them. But now when the battery gets low you are required to stop listening.
Sell the problem, sell the solution. 😒
I see your point but, isn't this more cumbersome than wired earbuds/headphones?
Now that's just perverse. 😳
And what do you know, Ego enjoyed a simple meal that finally broke his personal vendetta against the restaurant.
Enjoy your music.
Old man yells at radio waves.
I swear I can hear them yelling back.
Old man yells at sky
For those who are looking, the Sony Xperia line has a number of phones with both an sd card slot and a headphone jack.
And 2 years of security updates.
They type of person who owns a set of wired headphones or earphones for over a decade doesn't replace their phone every 2 years.
And these days you really shouldn't try and keep a device on the internet without updates.
It's why the fair phone got rightly trashed when they ditched the headphone jack. Battery powered ear buds were completely against their demographics
HMD make decent repairable phones with a headphone jack. They took the Nokia brand for a while but they're now just HMD and they're doing some cool modular stuff with cases too.
The irony of the meme being that the food critic ends up loving Remy's ratatouille. Meaning Bluetooth would bring him to a simpler time like the ratatouille did in the movie
Back when he grew up just listening to music rather than being a bitter adult worrying about bitrates.
I've found that bluetooth headphones are about just as cheap as wired ones and being free of the cable makes a big difference.
Washing dishes? Don't have to worry about your phone being to far away from you.
Laying in bed? Don't have to worry about headphones getting pulled out of your ears because you rolled over.
For the same price wired headphones have much better sound quality than wireless ones. They are built with less expensive parts and software.
The tiny batteries in small wireless earbuds makes them disposable, after a few years.
I own have owned lots of different wired and wireless headphones. My two over ear wired headphones need a new ear cushion every couple of years or a new cable per decade, but they last and last. My wireless headphones have either become unusable because of dead batteries or one part of an overengineered device breaking.
My two wired overhear headphones have cost less together than my one nice Bluetooth overhear headphones and have outlasted it by a decade.
Yea it’s a good thing the batteries in them are made of fairy dust that just appears and disappears with no problems whatsoever.
I only ever had that problem with AirPods, but the $15 knock-off has been great. I’ve had them for a while now and there is no battery problem yet.
For the same price wired headphones have much better sound quality than wireless ones. They are built with less expensive parts and software.
The tiny batteries in small wireless earbuds makes them disposable, after a few years.
I own have owned lots of different wired and wireless headphones. My two over ear wired headphones need a new ear cushion every couple of years or a new cable per decade, but they last and last. My wireless headphones have either become unusable because of dead batteries or one part of an overengineered device breaking.
My two wired overhear headphones have cost less together than my one nice Bluetooth overhear headphones and have outlasted it by a decade.
Don't even get me started on the fact you can't just replace a fucking battery anymore.