• Auth@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Yes if they’ve lasted decades thats their job done. Now people are buying usb C headphones and there is no need to continue to support decades old standards. The ewaste from a pair of headphones is tiny so its not worth fretting over.

    Also BT headphones last longer than 2 years. Mine are 1st gen samsung buds and going on 5 years at this point and still hold enough charge to listen to music during my work day. If im going to be using them all day I have 1 in and 1 charging in the case and then I can easily have music for 10+ hours on a 5 year old device. If I threw them away today I would consider them to have not been ewaste.

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      4 hours ago

      Yes if they’ve lasted decades thats their job done

      No it means they’ll essentially last indefinitely, unlike BT buds.

      Now people are buying usb C headphones and there is no need to continue to support decades old standards

      No, what’s happened is that we went from a single open standard for audio jacks to competing standards (actually 3 of them before the EU stepped in and forced Apple to quit their bullshit). And gained nothing in the process.

      The ewaste from a pair of headphones is tiny so its not worth fretting over.

      It’s not a pair of headphones, it’s millions of audio devices.