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for some folks it's one of the few ways to feel anything after deployment
Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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Most of us stick to booze.
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Personally I'm just glad to have a phone that works. My current one was bought new but not my last one, a old S5 from a friend. One of the best I'd ever had. You can sanitize a phone, alcohol wipes and the like.
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Kind of? Back in the day (around about 100 years ago or earlier) a high class escort was someone you had to book an appointment with, usually by calling a number, hence the term call girl. She would actually escort you and come along to functions, dinners, conferences, office parties, etc. and there was also usually (although not always) some sex at the end of the night but that would run you extra. I'm not at all familiar with the intricacies of what makes a courtesan but from the way you described it it sounds very similar.
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i can do both just fine
if the world at large is actively going to shit no amount of 'mmmmmm but how does it affect you peeeeersonally?' is gonna help, fedboy
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You can always deep clean a phone but is it worth it? unless its highend and you get it for next to nothing I wouldn't bother, midend today are great nothing like the midend phones from a few years ago that would lag even when new.
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I got the S5 for fifty bucks from a friend after breaking my old one days before on a hike. That's worth it to me man. Unplanned, very fucking cheap, can't complain
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To be fair it's not just a weeb thing, it's a fandom thing. In America for example, you had Breaking Bad fans throwing pizzas on the roof of the house even though it is now a privately owned residence. (Archive)
I wonder if there are any examples of fandom autism having a positive effect, like Japanese GuP fans donating a ton of money to the Finnish Armor Museum to pay for new pavilions to help protect the last BT-42 and other tanks, all because the BT was featured in the movie.
Even outside of cleaning, phones are built to fail. I have a harder time justifying paying to fix/replace parts on a used phone than a new one. Not to mention software updates that slow down your old phone even though you take good care of it.
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Not only was it obnoxious and unfunny, it was also a waste of food. An average pizza is like what, $15?
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It's hard justifying buying newer phones for me honestly, because they usually are missing the sim card slot and the aux port, forcing you to get Bluetooth headphones and earbuds, and either pay more for storage or be shit out of luck. My 32 gig sim card hasn't let me down on photo storage just yet, and I've had it for years.
As for battery life, external batteries baby. A cheap ass solution to the problem. Give it a 3 foot cord, and you're good to go. I'd rather repair what I have and spite the manufacturers putting out utter shit that's a complete downgrade of what I originally purchased, because they do it every year, take shit away. I'll repair it as long as possible, because I payed good money for this bad boy, and I'm not paying more until it's so broken, and the parts so expensive that the cost of repair makes it utterly unfeasible. I payed good money for a 5G phone to future proof myself, I expect to get my money's worth, and not consoom.
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I blame Apple for starting this shit.
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Not only have they started the trend of taking ports away, but the internals have become less and less repairable too. Literal disposable phones, valuable lithium to the landfill. Consooming at its finest
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Back in the day there were vast improvements in hardware constantly but now it's leveled off to a point where average phone/PC specs are more than enough for most people's needs, but the tech industry has remained in the mindset that people need to replace everything. So instead of making devices actually better they've started making them more disposable to force that same rate of replacement even though it's not necessary and the phones aren't much of a real improvement over last year's model.
Plus Apple is great at marketing and social manipulation so morons buy into their shitty product changes for the clout. You just know there are retards out there who will literally judge people for having phones with a headphone jack ffs.
Also I actually prefer Bluetooth headphones for a couple of reasons... one being that the wire tends to be the first thing that fails. My pair has a jack so I can use them as wired headphones if I want, but if the aux cord gets a short I can just replace the cord and not the whole pair. My Bluetooth headphones have lasted me much longer than any wired pair I've ever had for this reason alone. On top of that, I often want to listen to music while doing chores or hobby stuff and I like not being literally tethered to my phone or laptop while I do things that don't involve either of them or having the cord catch on things.
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I prefer not having a jack, because cords are shit as you said. But what others do, I don't care and it's retarded that people don't even get the choice to choose.
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One thing I find better with bluetooth earphones, is unlike with headphone jacks I wasn't changing new earphones often because there's no wiring that can break and there's less clutter on your person.
The only downside is if the place you won't walk away for a good minute has stuff that can cause interference, there's your problem.
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Do you mean in that it will be hard for you to hear any dangers, or that you can't cancel the sound out?
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Plain interference that messes up your phone's connection with your bluetooth earphones. It sucks if it's happening in a place you'll be staying for a quite a while like a gym or worse, your house. Hearing any dangers, in my experience it's the same depending on your earphones. The only thing that matters is if it's a pair of earbuds that go in to your ear nicely which both wired and wireless earphones can do.
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I prefer wired headphones because they sound better, and you can get ones with removable cables so if the cable breaks you can just buy a replacement one. Plus with the Bluetooth ones, they’re powered by internal batteries that weren’t designed to be replaced in a lot of them, so when the battery stops holding a charge and/or becomes a spicy pillow they’re just e-waste and that rubs me up the wrong way.
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That's another downside too. If you are good with handling your headphones' wires and especially if you tend to listen to music for more than an hour or so then wired headphones will give you a lot more bang for your buck. But if you suck at handling wires, then bluetooth headphones may be better for you. Just expect the battery and the occasional possible interference to be a downside.
So yeah, in the end the trend of cellphone companies removing support for wired headphones is a clown world move because the two still have their own uses depending on the person. I don't really see what's the purpose of removing the ports too; it's not like these companies add something else in return, not that I know of. I'm just hoping they don't do it to chargers and stupidly endorse wireless charging.