What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?

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I might be exaggerating a but I've never been a real fan of Bluetooth headphones or earphones. Sound quality never matched cabled ones (I also have the popular Sony one) and battery life sucks for the time I want to use it
- I always wanted to be the cool hipster with cabled headphones and getting mad about phones without audio jack.
  Truth is, my cables always got tangled up, especially at work. It was getting really annoying. I bought some open ear headphones from aftershokz because i often listen to music wherever and i don't want to be isolated. These things absolutely fuck. Battery life is fantastic. Even if they are empty, i can throw them into the pocket charger for 15 minutes and they go for hours again. The sound is good. It's not full blown headphone quality, obviously. But they are so comfortable and you don't have to stick anything into your ears. I saw that bose has a similar product and i kinda wanna try them.
  
  I understand it's a very subjective experience. And tbh, one thing that bothers me about cabled ones is the cable noise when moving. Or accidentally pulling off the headphones from my head, although that's not a common issue,but for sitting experience they're perfect. Aside from that, my music preference is very eclectic, so e.g. the level of bass really needs to adapt properly to the genre I'm listening to atm, so the boosted bass Bluetooth headphones just don't work for me. I've never experienced a Bluetooth pair that doesn't have too much bass.
  
  Ya, bass is always the downside of these things, but i'm not super into that. Also i don't really like to listen to music very loud. I really don't like when i feel the cable brushing my arms or something. And i rip them out every time i stand up. It's so bad. A huge plus for me is also that i can leave my phone somewhere and i can still listen to music.
  
  Yeah the moving around thing is also a benefit to me too
  
  There's a method to put headphones into your pocket without them tangling. Fold them in half always instead of coiling them up.
  
  I learned 'cable macrame' from my networking mentor. I can wrap a cable so fast, and it's not gonna tangle.
  
  I always wanted to be the cool hipster with cabled headphones and getting mad about phones without audio jack.
  I'm triggered for I think I'm in this comment. But I'm less 'cool hipster' and more 'cantankerous nerd'. But allllll the rest is true.
- My jabra 85 elite last me for a solid >12h of continuous play
- I have $20 wired IEMS that sound better than my most expensive Bluetooth tws sets. I've taken to just listing to podcasts and YouTube videos with my Bluetooth sets at work.
- All true. All good points.
  I'm running out of places to buy a phone that offers a jack, though.
  But my home rig is a USB sound dongle to wired earbuds usually. Occasionally a set of ANC buds for the bad days.

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