I am convinced most people are just walking around as blank eyed zombies that can only think about food, sex, and scrolling TikTok.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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I wanna share this to all aunties of my town
I’m not defending this, and I know that me using an iPhone is going to be unreliable to 99.9% of Lemmy users, but once upon a time phone audio was in mono and it sucked. Idk if Apple did this first - I imagine they stole it from Android like every feature - but whoever had the idea to use the ear speaker as a second audio channel was a genius. Listening to music on iPhone speakers is like 100x better today than it was like 5 years ago.
HTC is known for popularizing stereo speakers, although a couple of earlier phones had them too but they weren't marketed well, if at all.
My interpretation of the post was less about the quality of phone speakers and more about disturbing the peace of public spaces
Yeah I figured, but it made me think of speaker quality. It's also interesting how this isn't socially acceptable today, but there once was a time that when boomboxes were pretty common. It's kinda sad actually how individualized media has become. I miss Game of Thrones watch parties when we used to crowd around the TV. I'm too young to have grown up in the boombox era.
Theres a janitor at my work that sits in the break room all day blasting right wing tick tocks while people are on coffee break, its insanely annoying.
Are the TikTok’s about people who don’t want to work anymore?
I see various forms of peacocking these days. The other one is blasting a 1sq mile radius with music from a vehicle.
Incidentally this meme captures my reaction when I see Clint Eastwood.
The other one is blasting a 1sq mile radius with music from a vehicle.
That kinda goes back to the OP's title. It wouldn't be as bad if it didn't sound terrible. I miss the early 00s when every 3rd or 4th car had giant subwoofers. I may not like what you're playing but at least it sounds decent.
People got worse over the course of the pandemic and it appears they have no intention to go back to more reasonable public behavior ever.
I'm mostly fine with music. But dammit put the phone to your ear when your on a call in public.
But I wanna talk to people like I'm eating a slice of pizza!
I want everyone to hear my pepperoni.
Public transportation people who want to start a fight
While you should never do it in public, those phones with the virtual 3d sound field speakers are starting to get pretty decent to listen to music on. Still, never listen at higher volumes, cuz that breaks it. But it's pretty awesome for any volume level where it can manage the right level of base for the song.
Specifically what it's doing is making it so each ear only hears the part that is meant for it, and doesn't get the bleed over from the other speaker. Virtual stereo isolation, the Switch 2 also does it in standalone mode. But yeah, of course, that only works for the primary user, anyone in the wrong physical location relative to the speakers won't get the effect. And actually it'll just sound weird to them.
This is what happens when there is no headphone port
This is what happens when~~there is no headphone port~~ people are selfish pricks
FTFY
No, this is what happens when they are a selfish prick who doesn't care about their surroundings. Even if I agree with the lack of 3.5 jack, a crappy pair of bt earphones are cheap, and will save the rest of us from listening to their crap.
You can get USB C to headphone jack dongles super cheap. Bluetooth earbuds are also cheap these days. Not really a good excuse
As a homeless guy that hangs out at McDonald's everyday, this hits close to...well, not "home" 😅
This hits close to current location? :)
PS, hope you find a place to live soon.
Don't get me started on people that wear too much cologne or perfume 😅
Thank you 🫂
Music is horrible but how about when they are scrolling through shorts or tiktok whith blasting sound? Like a never ending spirit box
I still use my wired headphones that I got with my phone from 4 generations ago
I still use the wired ones that came with my zune back in like 2006. They were incredibly good headphones for some reason. Thankfully, I don't use them much. Otherwise, they would probably be broken by now. Im going to be sad when they fo break one day.
It's even worse when you hear it.
Where I find this behavior most infuriating is on walking/biking trails in the forest preserve. Like, seriously!?! I get the desire to listen to something while exercising or just having your "you" time, but when you're riding a bike that cost thousands, you can probably afford some bone conductors or at least ear buds that offer a hear through option. Hell, the expensive units refurbished on eBay get pretty damn cheap.
I just bought a pair of anc earbuds for fun because I have a better set of anc headphones already. They sound way better than I expect or need and they were literally $25.
Worst offenders are the people in my apartment block who don't seem to realize how small a room an elevator is. I can't even get pissy at them because they know where I live.
They are probably listening to low quality spotify streams or, worse, compressed mp3, so it's not as if a pair of headphones would make any difference in sound quality...
Although I would love if they kept their shitty music to themselves, I'm not interested in their crap.
Quality of headphones/speakers makes a much much bigger difference than the file type/quality.
I'll take Spotify w/good headphones over Lossless with phone speakers anyday
worse, compressed mp3
Everyone who claims they can distinguish 192kbps mp3 from uncompressed audio can also hear the flea cough, as we say in German.
Phone speakers these days are fairly decent. Will good headphones/speakers with a good DAC and AMP and a lossless audio file sound better? Well, duh. Are phone speakers adequate for the vast majority of people who aren't audio~~snobs~~, sorry, audiophiles? Also yes. Just don't be that asshole using speakers in public spaces.
Although I would love if they kept their shitty music to themselves, I'm not interested in their crap.
For real... Any of the people who I do come across doing this are listening to the tinniest garbage that sounds like organized radio static.
And it's always got to be in the grocery store or Walmart. How about while you're there, you go buy some $20 Bluetooth headphones so you can listen to your garbage music alone and stop torturing the rest of us with your bad decisions?
What's Ur fav band?
They want to inform the public of their incredible taste in music or their unfathomable depth of intelligence.