I think I'm broken now

Amber 🌸

@[email protected] welcome to the other side. it’s nice

Jay

@Jessica if i could do that with my earbuds, maybe i'd be converted too, but if i leave my room they lose connection

Adderall girl grindset (Jes)

@jay my issue with wireless earbuds is that you'd be charging them every 5 hours which would quickly get annoying
if they made a 2.4ghz sorta headphone extension that goes to a box that clips onto a shirt I'd like that.

Adderall girl grindset (Jes)

@jay even on the high end you're only getting 10 hours and maybe 12
but all these tws buds have a 5 hour battery because apple does.
I don't mind a cable or an ear clip if it means I could get all day battery life

Jay

@Jessica yeah i still mainly use a wired headset, it's just that if i could walk around the house with bluetooth connection, regardless of battery life, i'd use wireless a lot more

Adderall girl grindset (Jes)

@jay can't do bluetooth. it's a bad standard. it won't work, has to be 2.4g USB dongle. no other way is strong enough.
plus audio quality has bad latency and the audio quality is poor if you enable the microphone.

Jay

@Jessica ah, i see, but wouldn't 2.4g get crowded out by wifi? (i live in an apartment building)

Adderall girl grindset (Jes)

@jay bluetooth wouldn't be any better since it's also 2.4g
it's just a bad standard.

Adderall girl grindset (Jes)

@jay for what this means, my best bluetooth headset can just get to across the house with some of my devices, with my logi g435 headset's USB dongle I can go outside, into the basement, etc and still have a solid connection.

Adderall girl grindset (Jes)

@jay bluetooth might just be a really weak standard, and probably overcrowded because it's being shared with random USB dongles, wifi routers, everyone else with their bluetooth headphones, microwaves, etc

Adderall girl grindset (Jes)

@jay and in my experience tws earbuds tend to have poor signal quality since there's no room for a beefy antenna like a neckband or seperate box could do.

Adderall girl grindset (Jes)

@jay and depending on the device you connect the headphones to, it could either have both earbuds connecting to the phone itself or one earbud is using it's own 2.4g signal to connect the left and right ones.
so like if you notice one earbud dies quicker than the other, it's possible that your headphones aren't using the better both-side bluetooth mode, or don't have it

Amber 🌸

@[email protected] @[email protected] https://shokz.com/ i have a pair of these (i broke some plastic bit i need to reinforce) and my god they're wonderful. good battery life and they solve the problems i had with earbuds.