hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoThe Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modernwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10cross-posted to: sustainabletech@lemmy.sdf.org
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkThe Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modernwww.theverge.comhedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: sustainabletech@lemmy.sdf.org
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoOr just get some wireless headphones and be done with it. Worth it just so you don’t knock the wired ones off your head when you move about, or yank the cables out of them and have to buy new ones. I can see the point of wired if you’ve got some nice audiophile kit, but a phone is not that.
minus-squareLonelyLarynx@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoExcept that wireless headphones have more complexity, points of failure, and usually shorter life. Just avoiding batteries alone should give a longer life and do less environmental harm.
Or just get some wireless headphones and be done with it.
Worth it just so you don’t knock the wired ones off your head when you move about, or yank the cables out of them and have to buy new ones.
I can see the point of wired if you’ve got some nice audiophile kit, but a phone is not that.
Except that wireless headphones have more complexity, points of failure, and usually shorter life. Just avoiding batteries alone should give a longer life and do less environmental harm.