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What's a gadget or appliance that you purchased that you would wholeheartedly recommend to others? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 weeks ago by AnAverageSnoot@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me, it's an electric toothbrush. It doesn't matter if you go with Sonicare or Oral-B, once you start using an electric toothbrush, regular toothbrushes don't ever feel like they clean your teeth properly. The smooth plaque-free top layer of your teeth that you can feel after using an electric toothbrush can't be replicated with a regular toothbrush.

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[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What's the advantage over a smartphone?

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Better quality DAC
Don't have to drain my phone's battery
My music collection is big enough to fill my phone's storage, and they don't come with SD card slots anymore
Smaller and lighter than a phone
Definitely will last way longer and is easier to
My phone doesn't have a 3.5mm jack 😭

That's everything I can think of right now

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

well yeah. But most phones w/o a 3.5 mm jack don't have an integrated DAC anyways, so the choice is up to you.

But the storage and the fact that it's all in a light weight bundle, that's indepedent of your phone is pretty convincing.

I remember having on, back in the day, that ran on a single AAA battery for a week an was marginally larger than one of these. Unfortunately I tinkered with trying to run it on an external power supply when I knew to little about electronics and ran a few too may Volts through it. Otherwise this thing would probably still work fine. I kinda never looked back since was content enough with my phone for listening to music. But I do have fond meories of those things, and I miss the 3.5 mm jack on my most recent phone, maybe I should reconsider...

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe so! If you do pick one up, you'll have to tell us how it goes, I'm curious

I guess it's not for everybody, but for my specific context it's pretty great. I think if I did have a phone with expandable storage, a 3.5mm jack, and still had an unlockable bootloader I could run Graphene/Lineage/Postmarket/etc on, it could probably replace the music player easily enough. I'd probably still end up eating a lot more battery that way though

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Durability I imagine. My 10+ year old MP3 players still work fine. Phones from5 years ago don't.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Also wondering this, VLC can run so many formats too

[–] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

For me, the primary benefit is that it's NOT my smartphone. Music is a separate, intentional thing, divorced from the pocket distraction machine. YMMV.