chapotraphouse

buttons and wires are good

Their stovetop was all touch controlled.

This is apparently normal now. My grandmother had to replace her stove recently and apparently all the budget stoves were those dogshit glasstops with shitty touch control buttons instead of just like cheap exposed coils and physical dials. I don't get it at all, everything about it is awful and so much worse than the cheaper established options it doesn't make any sense.

Excited for the day my car finally is done for and I'll have to buy a car with a touch screen steering wheel or some shit

Wireless earbuds are generally bad and are pushed too much, but they do have usecases.

Touch controls for a stove is pure madness.

Call me old (I'm not), call me a Luddite (I'm not), I don't care.

Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this. You know I'm right.

You are both old and a Luddite, and also are correct, sorry. The tech sector has nothing new to offer, so desperate not to drown it latches onto any trend it can trying to make it the next big thing. Or like any old business, does everything to minimize cost and maximize profit. I wouldn't say this rant is pointless, it's good to vent about this stuff.

Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this

Your water splattered touch screen oven is doing that for us already

I used to hold this opinion but my wireless headphones are really good, plus they have a spot for a jack in case I need it. I used to go through cables like every month because they would get twisted and the cable would snap. With my wireless headphones I don't have that problem anymore. I do think that wireless headphones should come with an option for a jack though.

Yeah the new ones are super cool they--*right ear falls out straight into a sewer*

Yeah but have you tried wireless bone conducting headphones? It's like having a soundtrack for your life!

I will scour the internet for old phones with headphone jacks

Might be skill issue but they always fall out for some fucking reason. I have no idea how to make them fucking stick there 🥲

How could I roast you when I agree with everything you just said

You probably already know this but you can use IEMs (they have cheaper ones now) or regular old earphones with a DAC if you don't want to use bluetooth earpods but I bet it would be annoying to use on the couch as your USB port on the phone is probably at the bottom and use still have to pay extra for the DAC

Wired Headphones with a little solid but flexible bar in them (so they maintain their shape and don't tangle) would solve like, 75% of the problems wired headphones have, it would be way cheaper to manufacture too. But no one listened to me when they designed these things.

And at the risk of doxxing each other, I was also housesitting in that same kitchen (we probably know the same people who own it! Not like two different people would add such a thing to their house or anything.) And had exactly the same problem you did with it. And this is when it is brand new as well. I wonder how all this fancy "touch control" stuff is going to look in 5-10 years when the sensors are starting to die due to years of grease, water and heat. Hell, their oven "on" button already barely works and is really finicky. Just feels like they got completely scammed to get the "latest and greatest" kitchen stuff without actually planning for the future.

personally i prefer wired earbuds, but i do have a nice set of cheap bluetooth ones from a six-letter that cost me ~$25 equivalent and are perfectly fine for things like audiobooks and podcasts
battery lasts about 6 hours on a 40 minute charge and the little charging box thing is good for about 5 charges before it's dry

Touch screens are used because they're cheaper than dials n buttons. It's just another way things get shittier for the sake of profit

My bluetooth earbuds are great, they can run 8 hours with ANC on before needing to go back in the case, the case holds another 32 hours of charge for them, and even if they do die it only takes 10 minutes to get an hour of charge on them. The sound isn't quite as good as the wired headphones I use at home, but I only use them when I'm out and about so they're competing with background noises anyway, and it isn't that much worse that I'd particularly care if I were using them somewhere quiet.
Really the only downside I've found is the ever so slight lag when watching a video, and even then I'm watching something on my phone so I'm not looking for perfect audiovisual fidelity.

Also wired earbuds dug their own grave, I only bought the wireless ones because a wired set had caught on something and the jack broke off in the audio port. I'm not buying a whole new fucking phone just so I can get wired earbuds caught on something again.

Not as annoying but still, some monitors have touch sensors instead of buttons. Very easy to activate unintended function. If they are actually cheaper than regular buttons, they are not that annoying but I doubt it. I also how pc cases are ditching somewhat old functions for rgb stuff. A new case I bought doesn't have reset button, it is replaced with rgb button. What is the purpose? If user cares about rgb, they are gonna synch with rest of the case with argb cable. If user doesn't care about it, we'll the button is useless now. This case is not a budget case either. Also it doesn't have a hdd led but tbh even I can not say it is that useful

Wireless earbuds fall out of your ear too easily. I had these ones years ago that were like earbuds with a band between them like headphones would have that went behind your head, and they looped over the top of your ear. Stayed on really nicely, and were still wireless without being easy to lose.

Another thing that drives me crazy is when earbuds or headphones have touch controls. I have a pair of wireless earbuds that i will try to push back in my ear when they fall out and itll pause the music, and then i wont be able to get it to play again, so i have to take out my device and play it again from there. Its horrible. Why put touch controls on something so tiny that you have to touch constantly?

I hate all the other stuff you mentioned but you can still buy wired earbuds. I will buy the wireless ones for work please don't take them from me