• 🤔 One of Apple’s most famous accessories seems to have been discontinued
  • 👋 The Lightning to 3.5mm jack adapter has sold out in the US
  • 🌎 It’s also not available in other countries
  • 🎧 The adapter was introduced in 2016 when Apple removed the headphone jack from the iPhone 7
  • essteeyou@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Audio latency with Bluetooth screws up things like music lessons in Duolingo.

    A few weeks ago I was gardening with Pixel Buds on and one dropped into a pile of leaves. I spent ten minutes looking for the thing. Then the other day the same one dropped into the garbage disposal while I was doing the dishes.

    I don’t mind the cheap Bluetooth headphones I have that wrap around my ear slightly. I can run in those without them dropping out.

    When I want audio quality I use some over-ear Bose headphones.

    I have no idea how people are ok with just the little buds for all use-cases.

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        4 days ago

        Yep. It felt like the beginning of something from a horror movie, but I still have both hands.

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          1 day ago

          Hopefully you unplugged it from the wall and drained the capacitors before reaching down. xD

          Glad you still have hands!

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            14 hours ago

            I did not. It only fell to where the spinning blades are, I wouldn’t have expected that to have any live electrical components.