• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I really wish these people would understand that a tiny pair of wireless earbuds makes the audio sound so much better than a phone speaker.

    Phone speaker should be silent and never used ever, no good has ever come out of a phone speaker. Use headphones instead all the time. I don’t even know why speakers exist on phones. I see kids and old ladies alike defaulting to speaker phone when they call people, they don’t use headphones (or, god forbid, put the phone up to their ear like we did for a hundred years).

    Call me crotchety and grouchy or whatever, this is the hill I’m dying on.

    Fuckers need to use some goddamn headphones.

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      14 days ago

      There’s plenty of good uses. Phone speaker is real good when wife calls in the middle of an online match to double check something in a ten second call while actually at the store. I can mute my mic and take it with my gaming headphones still on.

      But I’m the only one home, and, ya know, at home not public.

    • jdr@lemmy.mlOP
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      14 days ago

      I’m ok with the phone speaker being used for old-school phone call, and maybe if you’re in the bath.

      Otherwise I’ll die next to you on that hill, my groucher in arms.

      • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        What I wanna know, is inside the mind of these people, do they not know that at the top of the phone is a smaller quiet speaker for putting against their ear, cause the microphone is at the bottom of the phone? I can clearly see they know there’s a microphone at the bottom, but then they turn on the big speaker and hold the whole phone away from their face?