I’ll go first: Silence Unknown Callers and Filter Unknown Senders on iPhone. No unwanted calls or texts. If someone really needs to reach me but isn’t in my contacts, they can just send a text - it goes into a separate list.

  • bklyn@piefed.socialEnglish
    834·
    4 hours ago

    Neither do most headphones

    This gripe is almost 15 years old. Get over it. If you want to be a Luddite, stop acting like it’s everyone else’s fault.

    Edit: ITT people who willingly make themselves miserable and their enablers

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      192·
      5 hours ago

      Most headphones absolutely have 3.5mm connections!

      Just because you are looking at a small subset of gaming headset or standard consumer headphones does not mean that most headphones doesn’t have it.

      Also, calling someone a luddite for wanting stuff that just works is idiotic.

      The earliest ancestor to the 3.5mm plug is the phone connector, invented in the late 1800s for phone switchboards, this means that the 3.5mm standard has more than a century of active use and development.

      You make a classic mistake of equating complexity with advancement.

      Good engineering is to strive for the simplest solution given the constraints of the problem.

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      92·
      4 hours ago

      I’m not making myself miserable. I’m a happy wired headphone user. They’re quick to switch between devices and battery-free.

      • bklyn@piefed.socialEnglish
        112·
        4 hours ago

        If you weren’t so insecure, you wouldn’t be trying so hard to convince others

        And you really should talk to someone about your fear of batteries

          • bklyn@piefed.socialEnglish
            110·
            4 hours ago

            The human ear cannot differentiate between a lossless, digital signal, and whatever analog garbage you’re talking about

            If you think you can tell the difference, you’re hallucinating. You are making yourself miserable by choice. Why should anyone feel sorry for you or capitulate to your absurd, Luddite, antique demands?

            • Zak@lemmy.world
              32·
              3 hours ago

              What characteristics did I cite as reasons I like wired headphones? Was audio quality among them? Did I ever claim to be miserable or that anyone should feel sorry for me?

              I have a phone with a headphone jack and I’m content with it. If I break that one, I know what I’ll replace it with, and that model also has a headphone jack.