alt Hacker NewsAh yes, the removal of headphone jacks, the gift that keeps on giving
Funny that there were always some people here pushing bt audio as "the future", whom I can only assume were the technically shallow but very opinionated people that would die on the smallest technical hills
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NoiseBert69 • today at 1:13 PM
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.
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I'd assume that most people wouldn't want to get back to wired headphones.
Transition period was definitely rough, but nowadays bluetooth headphones are substantially better than they were in the past, and it's quite freeing to not have to deal with wires.
There are definitely benefits to wired headphones, such as better audio quality and no battery life to worry about, but for those cases there are USB-C DACs.