monke

joined 1 year ago
[–] monke@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can get behind this

[–] monke@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How ironic is it that the guy who makes personal attacks over a debate surrounding freakin headphone jacks calls others a snowflake :)

[–] monke@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, it is totally unfair to expect consumers who prefer wired audio to make a one time purchase of a 10$ dongle. Instead phone manufacturers should continue to ship every single phone with an audio jack for years to come. And anybody who says it is fine to remove the audio jack because those who prefer wired audio can use a dongle is obviously a samsung shill.

[–] monke@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How is buying a dongle you shouldn’t need better for the planet than a phone manufacturer providing a headphone jack??

Did you even read my reply fully?

Go into a recording studio and see how many wireless headphones they use

Recording studios also don't use a smartphone to do their work.

Even if we do assume that the majority of the world still uses wired earphones, it still makes sense to remove the audio jack for reasons I have explained already.

[–] monke@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Basically you need to buy a 10$ dongle to make it work. How hard is that?

[–] monke@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Citation needed.

I don't have a source ready with me to back up my statement. But at least here in India, almost everyone I see in public transportation use wireless earbuds. Usually I look like the odd one out for wearing wired earphones.

If people already have wired headphones, then the most eco-friendly solution would be to enable users to continue to use them, and not force them to buy even more new products.

You absolutely don't need to go out and buy a new headphones if your phone doesn't have an audio jack. Just buy a dongle. Yes, I'm aware that this is worse for the planet than just including an audio jack in the phone. But if you buy a dongle once, you don't have to worry about your future phones not having a headphone jack. So in the long run, this move is better for the planet.

[–] monke@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Companies removed it to sell overpriced wireless headphones.

Of course, I'm not denying this. That still doesn't negate my point about audio jacks being redundant ports.

It’s way better to use regular headphones than the wireless pieces of crap with batteries and an amplifier and a bluetooth receiver in them.

Yes, and those regular headphones CAN be plugged into phones without headphone jack via the USB-C port

[–] monke@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (20 children)

There is a good reason to remove it. Especially for a company like fairphone. Why waste resources and money into making a redundant component (USB-C can do audio, also the majority of people have switched to wireless audio) when you're trying to make a planet-conscious product?

[–] monke@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[–] monke@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

doesn’t look like it

His brain thinks a country that can successfully launch rockets surely doesn't have what it takes to build a secure linux distro. You think that brain is capable of admitting to mistakes?

[–] monke@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, another example of India doing something that makes no logical sense just for the PR

Only 2 of those 104 satellites were Indian. Rest all were foreign satellites. In fact 96 of them were from the USA. But yeah, obviously all these foreign satellites satellites serve no purpose whatsoever. Obviously they were launched just so ISRO could score some PR points 😂

There is absolutely nothing impressive about launching 104 satellites in one go. What would be truly impressive is building a linux distro, amirite?

Man, you all are making this easy

Insert wojak crying behind mask meme

[–] monke@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My country once successfully launched 104 satellites with a single rocket. And this guy really believes we can't build a secure linux distro because we're nothing more than a "3rd world country poised to become the newest sweatshop of the developed world". Wow, okay dude.

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