It only takes one asshole in a crowded subway car to ruin it for everyone. I like to read on the subway, but they're basically telling me that if I want to drown out their tiktok videos, I need to bring something with me with my own audio to listen to over headphones, just to not hear them.
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My steam deck has a headphone jack.
This is not newsworthy
I wonder if drug dealers also do this.
(Henry's phone rings with a machine gun ringtone. He answers it on speakerphone without a second thought.)
- Yo, Peter! What's up, man?
- Henry, we need to talk about the new shipment of snow.
- Yeah, what about it?
- Tom's got a fresh batch. Just crossed the border this morning. But we need to be careful, last time it was cut with too much crap.
- Yeah, Tom is such a greedy bastard. What do you say we skip the payment part, and just paint the walls with his brains?
- I thought you would never ask. I'll bring the shotgun. See you at the train station at 6.
- Cool see ya there. Bye.
- Bye.
(Henry looks at the bewildered people around him.)
- What are you all looking at?
You jest, but I've spent a year+ homeless, often around fentanyl/meth addicts/dealers.
I've heard conversations very similar to this, albeit with more slang, many times, either just on speaker phone, or with the volume turned up so loud without the speakerphone on that you can hear the whole convo anyway...
I've heard this many times, on buses packed with people, at encampments, in shelters, at bus stops on the street, etc.
They don't look around bewildered and surprised afterward. They act jubilant, cocksure.
They don't give a fuck.
This feels like something all the dealers who are selling openly on social media would do. Just stupid as fuck
Reality is too absurd. You just can't make satire of it when life is already satire of whatever delusional fantasies I have in my head.
Sounds like an Ed Wuncler III spin off. “The fuck y’all looking at?”
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The 3.5MM jack isn't coming back, but having USB-C adapters would be a good compromise. I don't see any major phone maker shipping them though, and you know Apple would charge $40 for it. Even Anker's is like $18, and they are the current "good, but not crazy expensive" accessory brand.
I wanted to joke that the Apple adapter would be way more expensive, but it seems to be 10€. Maybe that would work?
Wow, I was NOT expecting that to be less than Anker. Granted it'll probably be the same with shipping tacked on.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MW2Q3AM/A/usb-c-to-35-mm-headphone-jack-adapter
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funnily enough I've only heard good things about that Apple adapter, so yeah probably
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I was flying back from Jersey and on one of the flights a passenger in the front had to be told three times by a flight attendant to silence her phone. The last time we were in the middle of takeoff.