Phones and other music playing devices used to come with their own headphones. I blame the phone companies removing 3.5mm jacks and not packaging headphones with the device anymore for this.
I’ve never had the balls but I always wanted to play my own music, turn it up max. Then point the speaker at them.
Maybe, just maybe, they’d get the passive aggressive hint.
I have fantasized of doing exactly that but with the most annoying song I can think of. Something along the lines of Crazy Frog or Hampster Dance.
Maybe “Seele mein” by Eisregen for that existential dread. Problem is, the song is in German.
My neighbor has the same five country songs on blast eight hours a day, seven days a week, rain or shine
I now have to pick between my sanity and fresh air.
FCC be damned; I’d be looking for any and all electronic devices that would interfere with theirs.
Sometimes I idly fantasize about building one of those ultrasonic projectors to remotely turn their windows into speakers and loop their own music back at them
but unfortunately I’m not enough of a jerk to actually do it
I wonder how well sound cancelling techniques would work here. Basically, identify the song, play the inverse, and you should only have to deal with a couple seconds of that nonsense.
you are a festering polyp on the anus of society
pure poetry 👌
The guy who had his phone on speaker but was also holding it like normal baffled me.
Yeah the people who are just unaware need like remedial education. The people who don’t care need something else.
I think that some of them are broken inside. Like the world hurt them badly when they were vulnerable and projecting this tough guy “I do what I want” persona is a desperate play to feel like more than the dust of a shattered ego collected in a bag of meat.
If someone starts filming you because you told them off, you gotta go “Wait are you filming already? Nooo, you gotta wait for me to be ready! Ahem… CANT BELIEVE you’re blasting music on the train with no headphones and other people around, you cot no consideratie for other people on the train, ope I said train too many times lemme go again…” And then it just looks like a set up bit that nobody will believe was real.
Lol yooo got set up good though, that was epic.
ah, middle aged women telling you to mind your own business after politely bringing up something that is directly affecting you, and thus is in fact your business.
nothing like it.
Needs text alternative.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
I like the solution of ruining the listening experience for them by playing back their noise pollution with a delay or loop from a nearby phone. Others can join to compound the cacophony & turn it into a communal activity.
- usability
Big “and then everybody in class clapped” energy here.
I can kind of see some people, especially with face time or something, using it for safety purposes. Like if they are out walking or something.
Kind of like making noises on a trail to avoid bears.
But when you’re with the herd, you’re probably safer than you think.
We failed when acting like an asshole changed from being rudeness and the implied lack of civilisation and instead became a sign of dominance, like in a wildlife documentary.
They’re just “alphas”… Trapped little pissants trying desperately to control any aspect of their life that they’ve utterly failed to develop in to a satisfactory existence. If only they’d realize it wasn’t everyone around them’s fault, and instead direct their ire at the rich pieces of shit draining any and all wealth from society.
Probably wouldn’t hurt if all the phone manufacturers hadn’t decided to remove the input for the most widely used and cheapest style of headphone connector
Don’t get me wrong, I hate the loss of the 3.5mm jack a lot, but bluetooth earbuds have gotten down to ~$20. On the cheap end, they’re not that much more expensive than wired earbuds were, and they’re a fraction of the price of the smartphone they’d be watching content on. I’d also argue that they last longer, as when I was buying cheap wired earbuds, it was usually the jack or the connection to the bud that failed and forced me to get replacements. Even though I’m still buying the cheapest kind, these days I usually only have to replace the buds after I lose them.
You know, phones with audio jacks also have bluetooth, right? There are also several kinds of headphones with removable/replacable wires.
It is still unquestionably a removal of choice and convenience for the shitheads to have removed the jack.
They are down to $5 on the cheap end. They were already under $20 more than half a decade ago, I bought my OG redmi airdors for $13 in 2019. Those were the budget kings at the time and didn’t sound worse than $13 wired headphones, although battery life was pretty bad at that time still
You have to pick a higher end phone and a lower end earbuds to get to ‘a fraction of the price’ in realistic terms. The very cheapest headphones aren’t going to sound good or last long, and are still going to be in the range of 1/5th of the price of a budget phone vs 1/16 out something that is more in line with calling something ‘a fraction of’ something.
A usb c to aux adapter is under $5 You can get usb c headphones for under $10
The bigger problem as is really emphasized by this post is that people just don’t care how their actions are affecting others. If I am using Bluetooth headphones and the battery dies that means I don’t get to listen to music anymore, it doesn’t mean now everyone else has to listen to my music.
Not really the point, it costs, people need to buy it, not doing it is easier.
My wired headphones (Sony MH410c) cost me three euros. But those were often included when buying a Sony phone. A decade ago you automatically had headphones when buying a phone.
Still doesn’t make it alright, but it’s let’s accessible now and I can see that leading to a societal change.
The bar for not being a piece of shit shouldn’t be so low that the only way to stop people from blasting music/videos is to give them free headphones with every purchase…
The issue is not the free headphones that aren’t there, it’s that people think having no headphones is an excuse to create an acousting hellscape for everyone around them.
We can only solve that issue by telling people all the time until they stop doing it. It seems the reason it’s happening more and more is just because many others wear headphones and stare at their phones and no longer observe their surroundings. Strange times.
My phone literally doesn’t support those, pops up a little warning and everything.
USB Sound card with an OTG adapter works but like, come, that’s horseshit.
There are many USB-C audio dongles with an integrated dac. You just happened to buy one without a dac, and is thus not supported by your phone
Pro tip. If you turn the volume down and hold it to your ear you can still listen to whatever without anyone else hearing. Like we used to be able to hear the other end of the line without others hearing in the old days when we used phones to phone people.
Sweet, now how do i put a USB-C port on my phone
There are some old iPhones that you can get a lightning to aux adapter for also under $5 but besides that what phone doesn’t come with a usb C and doesn’t have an aux?
The point really doesn’t change though, if you don’t have headphones that work then don’t listen to anything instead of disturbing others
We all hate these people.
Its the same people driving dodge rams and not putting their cart away.
And I dare say, I bet a lot of them are republicans.
From personal experience, this absolutely isn’t unique to a specific political side. Dodge Ram, sure. But being a complete asshat who doesn’t care about others is far more widespread then that.
And with cart stand across the aisle trying to decide which cookie to buy.
There is a DIRECT correlation between this shit and removing the headphone jack.
When you can get earphones for $2 at the local servo, it’s easy. When you’re looking at $300 earbuds or six week shipping for cheap chinese knockoffs, you just use the speaker
It’s a shame, because I would totally buy some cheap but good wired ones to keep in my bag and hand to people doing this shit if things still had the jack.
Much more powerful than telling someone they’re being a dick.
Doubt.
The people described didn’t give a shit then and don’t give a shit now. It’s not the unavailability of headphones causing people to suddenly be rude and self-centered.
There was a significant minority of people that only cared enough if it was easy for them to do so. It’s now harder, so there’s more people that gave up even trying.
I mean you can get USB earbuds for $7 on Amazon… It’s not like it’s hard.
