CascadianGiraffe

🎵 CAS-CADIAAAAAAA 🎵

Choosing isn't really an option for poor people. My phone was over 5 years old, unsupported, and the battery stopped charging. I was forced to get a new phone. I didn't choose to.

My car was what I could afford after my last car needed more work than it's bluebook value for the 3rd time that year. I had to get a 'new' car, and it's very used. I didn't get to look for a car that had great audio options. Hell it doesn't even have 4 working speakers.

My preference is for the highest quality.

My reality is that wired audio works all the time and it's affordable.

I've tried something like that in the past and found them less reliable than the FM transmitters. But I suppose that was a while ago and maybe the tech has changed enough that the affordable ones work well.

Still not willing to spend twenty dollars on cheap plastic when that money could be spent on 2 days of food or something that I don't already have a cheap solution for. I paid less than $10 for this cord over a decade ago and it still works fine.

Yeah the Bluetooth is convenient, but I don't think forcing people to that platform is a solution. Also Bluetooth still has inherent issues. It's never 100%. My audio doesn't hiccup or start cutting out unless I unplug or damage my wire. I've never accidentally plugged the wire into someone else's speaker. I don't have to reset, or look up passwords for my wire before I can plug it in.

As a single guy who lived with a married couple, I can say it's awesome and doesn't have to be sex related.

It cut down on cost of living and made everything easier. A little awkward when they bicker and didn't always enjoy playing the marriage counselor role. But overall it was great.

I think it also worked because sex wasn't part of the relationship.

In the previous car I used a cassette adapter to plug in my phone.

I live check to check. I can't afford a new phone, a trip to the dealer or a new stereo.

My preference for sound is that I would rather pay rent and eat food than waste money on technology to remove the wires. Sure it would be nice, but lots of nice things are just not affordable.

Because my car requires an expensive trip to the dealer to update the Bluetooth to be compatible with my phone.

I would love to ditch the wires. But I can't afford to.

I usually refer to myself as Cascadian

So many missed opportunities for O-bomb-a jokes

Everything is '2 weeks'. It's the only time frame he gives. Probably read somewhere that the news cycle is only 2 weeks so he thinks everyone will forget by then. (They will.)

Like everything he says/does there is a slight truth buried deep in there.

Some 'workers' really don't want it. They are called corporate middle management. They don't want the wage slaves to disrupt profit or crowd the spaces that they will be using because management will still take the day off.

Just an FYI, you can totally use an apple in place of a potato for many dinner recipes.

When in season, I often add apples to my stir fry or hash.

TIL why the 'horse apple pie' I ate in grade school tasted like shit.

I thought I just didn't like eating horses.