What would you consider a natural lifespan for a phone? I’m currently using a Pixel 6 that I got in 2021, it’s still well within it’s 8 year lifespan (which is around what I would call reasonable for something that costs me $800) and the USB-C broke at around late year 2 early year 3. It’s been the same issue with each phone of the USB-C getting loose and eventually failing to charge. As for your point about the micro USB port outlasting the button, same vibe those ports were indestructible, this is an issue that has only come up and consistently come up when phones started switching to type C. My blackberry bold is still kicking and usable so you can call “user error” all you want but I’m not convinced I suddenly became bad at maintaining my phones suddenly when the port swapped.

So I’m supposed to solve the issue of not wanting bluetooth headphones by…using bluetooth headphones? For five years while I wait for my phones natural lifespan to pass? K. Like yes I get the audio quality argument, you’re going to use a DAC anyways as I do on my desktop, but having the possibility of my headphones dying on me, as well as the price to performance when compared with wired options is enough for me to not want to deal with it. Sure I can get 100$ bluetooth buds, but they’re going to not only not be high quality, they’ll sound like shit at best.

The “scenario I made up in my head” is coming in the next few years, guaranteed. I remember when “the 3.5mm jack is going away” was a stupid argument that wasn’t going to happen too.

Just like I can buy a phone with a 3.5mm jack (with increasingly limited options for that each year) that isn’t my only criteria when buying a phone, it’s about weighing pros and cons of it. Sure you can’t fit an optical drive in your razor thin Lenovo, but you have options to buy a laptop that can, it all depends if you’re priority is buying something functional or something pretty.

You’re probably right though, it’s on me for having a broken port on the only piece of tech that I can’t easily open and tinker with, I just don’t understand technology.

I read the comments properly. Laptops are modular where you can slap any old disc drive in them, I have one in my basement right now where I can do exactly that. If I couldn’t swap it easily without taking apart the laptop, I can easily open the laptop and attach it to the board as well, something that I can’t do with modern locked tight phones without specialized tools. Last resort would be using USB and an external drive. Tech literacy is dead when people are arguing against having a 3.5mm jack and don’t know that you can open a laptop with a screwdriver.

You can only use the USB-C dongle for as long as your USB-C port functions, which for my last 3 phones including the one I’m typing this on, isn’t for the life of the phone. So once that fails which it always does, how do I listen to music? I shouldn’t be forced to use Bluetooth headphones/earbuds when they are objectively worse options that the collection of wired headphones I’ve gotten over the years. What about when the phone manufacturers decide that contact charging is good enough now and remove your USB-C ports, where does the dongle go now?

Your point about optical drives on computers is fucking dumb, since computers are still 100% modular and customizable, the point is that phones are not. I CAN put an optical drive on my PC, I can’t put a 3.5mm jack on my phone.

Massive respect to the men and women who stick with their teaching careers despite not being paid, respected or honored in any way by Western society.

America isn’t the entirety of western society

It depends on the people’s kid. Your parents kid for example seems like a dickhead.

It only takes about a tenth grade level of understanding physics and chemistry to make a decent device from scratch. With the access Americans have to over the counter explosives (tannerite) and arduinos you only need enough of an education to know how to copy and paste code. Relying on people being uneducated isn’t a good strategy because these things are extremely easy to make. I work with some people that I question whether or not they can read who build effective devices with little to no effort.

And how do you think unions come about? Historically it’s by setting things on fire.

So many people don’t seem to realize this, even people living here. The amount of people I work with who are shocked that my wife wasn’t granted immediate citizenship and is still going through the process 7 years and two children later is quite high. I like to bring it up when they talk about how easy immigration is in Canada and how we’re being overrun by immigrants.

I take apart bombs, missiles and other explosive ordnance for a living, and sometimes we have to wrap certain components or fuzes in aluminum foil to lower the effects of RF on them for transport. The general rule I follow is if you could put it underwater and water would get in, then radio frequencies won’t be deadened. So if she wants to be protected then she would have to create a watertight seal around her head and do us all a favor.

So why bring it up? It has nothing to do with the comment and nothing to do with the topic of the original post.

Woke is when people fall out of your aircraft and then you kill your own employees

Ah yes, the sphere, before they put that monstrosity up Vegas was a shining beacon of anti consumption, fighting the tenets of capitalism one casino at a time. Definitely a current day thing, no history of anything of this sort in Vegas.

Maybe being the kind of person who refers to it as sloppy 1/80s has something to do with it.

Looked up the site and it seems like they also don’t have Between the Buried and Me or Protest the Hero so it seems like it’s one of those “exclusionary to be pretentious and no other reason” kind of sites

The chest and stomach windows

Are too similar

for me to not see it

The outfit alone was enough for my wife and I to both instantly go “oh that’s some Barbarella looking shit”. The context of it being at a scifi premiere cemented in my mind that it was an aware homage but I could be wrong.

I feel like everyone is missing the clear Barbarella reference with this outfit, which is fitting for a scifi premier.

Absolutely, there were many reasons for the decline in writing and I am by no means going to defend D&D or their team as writers, but I don’t envy the situation they were handed.

Everything after season 4 of game of thrones was trash, it just got progressively worse each season as D&D had no accountability material to work with.

I know it’s fashionable to shit on D&D for their lack of writing skills, but they weren’t hired to write, they were hired to adapt and they were decently good at it. George told them he’d have his material completed by the time they’d have to adapt it and he did not, yet I see very little of the blame attributed to the guy who just kind of gave up on finishing his story.

Really? Trump mentioning that most nato members do not meet the required defense spending undermines nato.

As a member of a NATO military that doesn’t meet the targets for spending, I agree this doesn’t undermine NATO, it’s just the truth that we need to start pulling more weight monetarily.

BUT that’s not the point and you missed key details about what he said that absolutely DOES undermine NATO, such as:

“I said: ‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’… ‘No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever they want. You gotta pay.’”

So you’re showing that you either didn’t read the article, didn’t understand the article or are being willfully ignorant of the article.

That’s nice of you to say. What do you suggest he does about it? I’m so sick of these spineless, yellow-bellied Internet commenters saying that something should be done about it and suggesting precisely fuck all. OFFER A SOLUTION, ALREADY, YOU COWARDS!

Edit: Mocking tone aside, I’m serious, what can Jens realistically do? Kick the USA out of NATO? That’s Trump’s goal anyways. The issues with Trump are an internal American issue that can’t be fixed by Norwegian politicians unfortunately.