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Neato, to technology in The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

Wow that sucks. I’m glad I’m not in the apple ecosystem.

4am,

Yeah, this would never work on Android! Oh, wait…

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

It wouldn’t because USBC doesn’t have those expensive standard requirements.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

And you can still get (non-flagship) phones with the fucking 2.5mm jack

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

Yeah. With non-pixel phones you can still get SD cart slots, headphone jacks, etc. I think motorola still has cheaper phones that has those things.

ColeSloth,

I wish I could still get a higher end phone with an SD card slot. I’m holding onto my s20 ultra (I like the pen) until I’m forced out for security update reasons.

smiletolerantly, (edited )

The only flagship phone I know that has all the features (3.5mm, SD card,…) is the Xperia 1 series, and those are kinda expensive, sadly.

ColeSloth,

Yeah. I have t mobile, so the xperia 1 V, and the newly released but not officially sold in the US xperia 1 VI would work, but rare phones tend to lack support, amd I can’t bring myself to shell out $1400 for a phone like that.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

3.5 surely?

cmnybo,

I haven’t seen a 2.5mm jack on a phone in a long time. I still have a 2.5 to 3.5mm adapter that I used to listen to music on my flip phone in 2006 though.

JCreazy, to technology in The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones

Dude is just upset he lost his expensive earbuds.

ethanolparty,

I got second-hand annoyance for the people standing behind this guy in line while he argues with the clerks and tries to flex his “computer science degree”, only to be proved wrong again and again. Is there a techbro equivalent to a Karen?

I mean he’s not wrong, wired bluetooth earphones are a weird thing! But I’m getting huge Redditor vibes off this dude and I mean that in the worst possible way

Fubarberry, to games in All ROG ALLY devices will now have the 2-year warranty.
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

That’s only a useful change if their warranty support was actually helpful to begin with. Now you get two years of them trying to bait people into unnecessary out-of-warranty repairs.

Shyfer, to games in All ROG ALLY devices will now have the 2-year warranty.

What happened to cause this improvement?

sugar_in_your_tea,

Probably the negative press from their warranty process sucking. Check out the Gamers Nexus video about it, and I’m sure there are plenty of other sources as well.

Shyfer,

Haha totally just realized these are the same guys. I saw that video on Lemmy recently. I’m glad to see it helped! Now they have to actually improve their warranty support process…

Mako_Bunny, to games in Asus: Meet the new ROG AllyX, Improved ergonomics, Double the battery, Larger 1TB M.2 2280 storage, Faster 24GB LPDDR5X RAM, US$799

Asus lol

dohpaz42, to games in Sony is selling God of War Ragnarok Deluxe Edition without the actual game in it in regions where PSN is blocked
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Hmm. 🤔 I have to question the legitimacy of this screenshot. I just connected my vpn to Sri Lanka, which bans the PlayStation Network, and I got an oops page. Switch back to the US, and refresh, and the page displayed again as normal. Also, the price is $59.99, not $10, and it states clearly you need the base game to use the DLC.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fb07ccfa-fa27-4985-95f9-8ba8def9e35f.png

Mikufan, to games in Sony is selling God of War Ragnarok Deluxe Edition without the actual game in it in regions where PSN is blocked

Sounds illegal and probably against the TOS of steam.

The_Hideous_Orgalorg, to games in All ROG ALLY devices will now have the 2-year warranty.

Asus support is next to worthless at this point anyway.

fubarx, to technology in The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones

That is actually kind of brilliant. Having to go through MFi and getting the Apple DRM chip into the manufacturing pipeline can be a real pain (and expensive).

With this scheme, they could also run all the wired on/off and volume control actions through Bluetooth AVRCP. Even have a Mic on the wire, so if a call comes in, switch to HFP to talk/manage the call.

Damn, that’s clever. Hats off to whoever came up with it.

Incidentally, there’s very little Apple can do to make this stop, unless they decide to break Bluetooth and third-party accessories.

limerod, to technology in The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones

Stupidity at its finest. The whole point of cheap 3rd party apple accessories is to use workarounds to get past apple DRMs and use them without paying the apple tax.

Blame apple foremost for creating such a market in the 1st place. You don’t need such workarounds in other phones because they just work.

RobotToaster, to technology in The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

Apple puts a DRM chip in their peripherals, the fault for this happening is mostly on them.

pkmkdz, to games in Riot will hardware ban toxic players on Valorant

Oh come on, there will be no players left to play the game then
/s

Mikufan, to games in Riot will hardware ban toxic players on Valorant

Firstly i highly doubt that, Secondly, ew. Also they are all toxic, they would ban their entire player base.

_core, to games in Riot will hardware ban toxic players on Valorant
proceduralnightshade, to games in Riot will hardware ban toxic players on Valorant

Pls Rito don’t ban the toxic players, keep them in League and Valorant you’e like the SCP foundation or some shit. Don’t just release them inters back into the real world I BEG YOU RITO PLESAE

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