JackiesFridge

I use a Kaweco Sport as my daily driver.

Bonus: Nobody ever "borrows" it at work because it confuses and terrifies them.

Maybe Canada, but the US is ruining them too

No wrong way to take it - my complaints do sound like ye olden days of BT.

I have a pair of Shockz bone conductors and a MiniRig 4, both of which I enjoy quite a bit. I have also run into all of these issues in the past year. My post was mostly meant to counter the statement that Bluetooth is so far ahead of old tech. Sure it's great, but like any tech, it has fail points

I have a bunch of different wired headphones (an embarrassing number of them) and they just don't fail. I've never had a headphone jack fail on me. The sound is great - no batteries, no connection time, no latency, no compression, literally plug & play. There just isn't much that can go wrong with them, so for me, BT is a convenience (when I don't feel like having a cord) but not necessarily an improvement

The key being: for me. Everyone else, if you love BT, keep enjoying it

Reception cuts out of I turn wrong. Headphone batteries are usually flat when I decide I want to listen to something or take a call. Phone wants to pair with every other BT device except the headphones (save for the time it somehow forgets them and I have to dive into the menu and re-pair). Old phone's BT is starting to get flaky. So much latency no matter what. Sound quality still not there yet.

I do like not having a cord, but literally everything else about bt headphones is a step backwards against simplicity & longevity. I have minidisc equipment from the early oughts that still sounds fantastic on the PortaPros I also got at that time.

Also you kids get off my lawn, apparently

Treez nuts

Love it! Minimal but effective.

Can dimly remember what he looks like. Apparently he looks like someone's creepy uncle who was always doing sleight of hand tricks to wow the little kids

"We heard that song. Aren't they all just detachable?"

Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada....

This is why I joined a track-a-week music challenge this year! I've been dabbling for 5 years and still have no idea what I'm doing musically (no theory or anything) but I figured cranking out a finished song every week throughout 2024 would force me to get better and it's really working!

I mean, I'm still cranking out garbage, but now it's higher quality garbage and I can make decisions faster, let go of ideas that aren't working without a second thought, and learn from other people taking the challenge.

As far as art goes, I've been drawing live caricatures for 15 years and I'm WAY better than even a few years ago. Definitely stick with it. Be too stubborn to give up. Keep doing the thing. Skill will develop the more you persevere.

The Birthday Massacre are so gooood

I am with you on every one of these points. The image selection process is terrible now, where before it was quick & simple. And in the past couple of updates, sending larger images and gifs was sporadic until now I always get an error. I was happy when they added message reactions, then puzzled when they just stopped at six, half of which are rarely useful.

I've been a paid user for years, but now I'm causally shopping for something else. If they're giving up on their app, so am I.