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   Log 🪵 (log@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 00:38:34 JST Log 🪵

   • myrmepropagandist
   • Matt Hall
   • Knitronomicon

   @Knitronomicon @futurebird @401matthall This is what we lost when Apple ditched the TRS barrel phono jack.

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     Log 🪵 (log@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 00:38:33 JST Log 🪵

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     • Matt Hall

     @401matthall The design choices are such that the cheapest plug-in headphones for Apple devices use the physical connection to power a Bluetooth wireless audio chip, because it's cheaper than licensing the proprietary Apple connector. To me, this is an outward symptom of a deep anti-consumer sickness. De gustibus non est disputandum: people are free to like what they like.

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     Matt Hall (401matthall@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 00:38:34 JST Matt Hall

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     Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoy not being tangled in wires (because I _always_ was) but I would've appreciated the choice.

     Rich Felker repeated this.