So it’s not included on the sticker price but it is included in the price you pay

Could you not write this less condescending? I’m sorry I’m not from the US. When I heard people say that sales tax isn’t included in the price and that you need to file your taxes every year I assumed that was how the tax was collected.

Is sales tax included in prices? I’ve seen people online saying it’s often not since it varies from place to place?

How is the government getting taxes from people it doesn’t know exist?? I thought you had to file your taxes yourself in America, why or how would the migrants even do that? Or if the employer is doing that, who do they say they are doing it for??

Palwold dev talks too much

It’s a button to manage your Microsoft account that you signed into windows with. It’s not shocking that it has an option to upgrade said account

Edit:

1. I don’t use windows, stop assuming things about me
2. Everything you don’t like or don’t use isn’t an ad. This is no different than Gmail and Google chrome having Google drive integration.
3. Microsoft has been forcing people to use online accounts for windows login, so it’s only natural for the account button to let you manage it as well.
4. This isn’t an endorsement or a value judgement.

That’s not an ad

I think it trades blows with 7800x3d in gaming and is behind 7950x, 9950x, 13900k, 14900k in productivity.

That site has a weird lack of x3d cpus… Top 3 tiers should have 7800x3d, next 2 7600x3d / 5800x3d, next 3 5700x3d as alternatives.

Also it would serve them well to separate higher tiers to gaming / workstation and recommend parts based on that. Otherwise they end up recommending 7950x3d at the highest tier despite it not being the best at anything

It’s really hard to follow your train of thought. Bluetooth isn’t a piece of metal in your phone. It uses the same antenna your phone needs for its other wireless connections and it’s also driven by the same modem. Compared to an audio jack its impact is miniscule. The demand for Bluetooth wasn’t created in 2016, it predates smartphones. There were countless wireless earphones before 2016 and they mostly weren’t even made by phone companies. Apple removing the headphone jack wasn’t ‘false advertising’, it was very well publicised.

Yes, phone companies removed the headphone jack from their phones to drive the sales of their own earphones. Yes, Google collects lots of data about you. But interpolating these to “Google wanted people to keep Bluetooth on for its spy network” is a far fetched conspiracy

These are more like last 2 week but anyways:

• Finished Agent A after a year of hiatus.
• Got hdr to work in Dark Souls 2 with the graphics overhaul mod and finished getting the 4 big Souls.
• Got tired of the difficulty of Dark Souls 2 and decided to start a new random shooter from my library… Devil Daggers
• Had a management sim itch and gave another shot at FTL, never got to win. Half the time I lost in a single encounter to things like never landing a shot on the enemy ship due to shields + misses or 7 people teleporting to my ship and wrecking havok. Other times I got too greedy.
• Tried to figure out which way to go next in Dark Solus 2 by checking the wiki but kept getting sidetracked by things I might’ve missed.
• Also tried to quench the management itch with shapez, but didn’t like it much. Just made me crave the factorio dlc more. Amazing music though

You know bluetooth doesn’t need to be turned on in the settings for your phone to scan for devices right? Google doesn’t need to trick you with earphones to turn it on. Why do these conspiracy theories always involve the vampire politely asking to come into your home anyways?

And as I said, they have bitrates high enough that most people won’t notice a difference. Especially since the files/steaming they’ll be listening to have lower bitrate than Bluetooth.

Regardless, what matters most is the earphone quality and while there might be better and cheaper options now, that’s not the cheap bundled headphone people are nostalgic of when they post things like this.

Fair, I never use those kinds of things

Samsung had headphone jack until note 10 and ip67/68 rating since s5. Similar story with other brands. What you described are two separate trends.

am/fm

Cheap phones still have fm radio support. Pretty sure it’s disabled in software in everything else, and you need cabled headphones to serve as an antenna either way (not sure if usb c works).

Bluetooth as an audio standard is factually lower fidelity

Is this an analog vs digital thing? Bluetooth runs at a high enough bitrate that most people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. And especially compared to the quality of the cabled headphones that used to be common any Bluetooth earphone is better

Can’t hear anything over that cable noise!

Had horrible audio quality both inherently and due to the constant cable dangling noise, didn’t stay in the ear due to the cables’ weight pulling them down, didn’t last long due to the cables getting tangled while carrying, you couldn’t wear in bed or during sports or with large coats due to the cables, you couldn’t move away from your phone due to the cable length or if you forgot they yanked your phone off the table…

Most planes allow Bluetooth

profiling telemetry network

Of course they need it for the very real scary words functionality