Yeah. Making something BT makes it worse for me. It will need charging, paring, and eventually replacement (keep the old guts around, they’ll still work) whereas a stock PCE pad is...still exactly as shipped and still working %100.
I’m at the point where just having to hold a power button down for two seconds, as opposed to it being instantly and totally on via a DPDT switch, makes me want to kill someone. I’m so sick of the latency of modern tech...and I’m not talking about input lag exactly but almost EVERYTHING takes longer or demands a extra step or in some other way makes a complete BITCH out of the user by forcing them to endure load times, software updates, EULAs, passwords, bot detectors, and increasingly fingerprint and face scans just to access what is overall pretty much a toy.
I’ve never loved Laserdiscs and 16 bit games more for their total lack of this kind of crap so I won’t be signing up. I recently bought a new Walkman to escape Apple’s constantly changing music experience. When I was doing this something occurred to me that if someone bought a gaudy new pair of BT Beats for $300 or whatever a few years ago that to take advantage of this Walkman, which plays DSDs, and other high res formats, you’d have to buy an entirely brand new $300 pair of BT Beats to take advantage of the high res sound since old BT will just be fed something close to CD quality. If that person had bought wired headphones it wouldn’t be an issue. They’d just hear better sound than before out of the same cans they may have had for ages. I know people who have rebuilt the same pair of headphones for 40 years because that wire is %100 future proof unless you let someone take it from you, after which they own just a little bit more of the experience and a bit more of your time and therefore you as you fumble for passwords and wait for shit to load and try to unlock your phone with wet hands, or lose your company web page because it got blocked byFacebook after false claims of hate speech or whatever.
Sorry about crapping on your post but it has to be said, by me, to a forum that is very nearly dead, that if all the modern conveniences of the last 80 years actually saved us all the time they said they do and made our lives that much easier we’d all be retired and not on anti-depresents when in fact that average American works more than ever and is nuts. It’s clearly a scam.
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