• audaxdreik@pawb.social
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    13 hours ago

    My bluetooth headphones have the worst power button. You have to press and hold it for ~1 second to turn them on, but that’s only the activation threshold. They still take a further ~0.3 seconds to turn on. So basically you just need to press it for the whole ~1.3 seconds because otherwise you end up pressing it for what you think might be 1 second and then waiting to see if they eventually activate and then if they don’t, then you’ll just end up pressing and holding it for 3 seconds until they’re all the way on.

    Those numbers might not be entirely accurate, I’ve never actually really timed it out, but you get the picture. The entire window is frustrating to nail down and feels just awful and unsatisfying, sometimes I don’t manage to turn them off either because it’s the same behavior backwards.

    I feel like the design is to prevent them from getting bumped in your bag and turning themselves on and draining the battery and while that might technically work, they’re just as likely to end up getting squashed in my bag in a way that presses and holds the button anyways. None of this would even be necessary if you just put in a cheap, old school, tactile slide switch??? Like what is the fucking point?!

    • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      I got these headphones from Dollar General a few times, and they were pretty good quality, but when they ran out of charge, they closed all windows of my phone, so that was responsible for ruining many a writing and fap sessions, sometimes at the same time!