• V0ldek@awful.systems
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    6 months ago

    It’s maddening that they did actually take away the headphone jack from all modern phones and there’s nothing we can do about it even though it objectively sucks

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        6 months ago

        “The perfect size of the screen is ((3.5 + (year - 2010) * 0.5)) inches.”

        STFU. Make phones small like iPhone 4 again.

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      6 months ago

      there’s nothing we can do about it

      Outright rejection of their shit, I won’t buy new smartphones from them. Currently using a dumbphone although the case is breaking and they don’t make this one any more. Nokia could work but costs quite a bit tbh. Getting rid of the phone entirely is tempting.

      If I ever buy a smartphone again it will be the cheapest second hand thing I can find. Maybe don’t even take it out the house, it can stay at home like a landline and will be restricted to at most LAN connections only.

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      6 months ago

      You can still buy phones with a headphone jack. It’s just that most people buy the one without because most people have a wireless headset they use with the phone.

      It’s SUPER simple: if something new comes along and sells, it will become the standard. If it doesn’t sell, it won’t.

      Removing the headphone jack allowed manufacturers to make phones thinner/lighter/cheaper/whatever and people didn’t vote against it, therefore it stays.

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      16 days ago

      maddening how many details i have to filter phones for these days, (no oled (very bad experience with fragility of pixel4), ideally no cancer unremovable bloatware or LineageOS support (which needs Snapdragon cpu), fucking headphone jack…)