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I had a hero bus driver who pulled over the bus and kicked out a guy who was doing this.
in my city, all bus drivers were of hero grade about 10 years ago. Today, none of them give a fuck so long as they make their time points. dafuq happun
Soulless metrics with remote tracking.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. -Goodhart’s law
Selective hearing probably
The bus drivers who would enforce the rules probably got more complaints and not enough compliments came in to offset them.
So the ones who wanted to keep getting paid just chase KPIs.
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.
Where are you guys buying headphones with ANC for so cheap? The cheapest pair i could find was ~75€.
Anker Soundcores is what I bought. They were a prime day deal (shudders) but I was on a free trial that I just canceled.
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.
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?
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.What’s Ur fav band?
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.
Anybody with a pulse can tell. 192 is absolute dog shit. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rBH6BxtD9A
Quoting the top comments from that video, not even cherry-picking:
[Please explain] in-depth, what differences you are hearing and where you are hearing them
The “320 kbps MP3s” [used in the test] are either poorly encoded or possibly recompressed
I can only tell the difference on songs that I know.
It’s usually the highs where the difference is
(Meaning that the difference is only audible when you’re quite young.)
please make a video on the differences you hear! I can’t recognise them at all
This is such a flex
please show us what you’re listening for!
This should give you an idea that this guy’s performance is not ordinary, and certainly out of the leage of “anybody with a pulse”.
Any experienced mixing engineer should be able to tell. Here is your flea whisperer.
I like to put my phone on my shoulder(it’s not loud enough from a breast pocket) and listen to music on podcasts while I work as headphones are a “safety issue”, I honestly don’t mind the sound quality
As a homeless guy that hangs out at McDonald’s everyday, this hits close to…well, not “home” 😅
Free wifi?
Cheap food and the staff doesn’t chase me off most of the time.
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 🫂
I remember used to live in a house very close to McDonalds. We’d just walk there and open up a laptop (very cheap one) outside to use their free wifi. No money for internet lmfao.
Thinking about it makes me sad about the inequality in the world.
This is what happens when there is no headphone port
And yet, billions of people manage to not do this, every day.
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.
This is what happens when
there is no headphone portpeople are selfish pricksFTFY
You can get USB C to headphone jack dongles super cheap. Bluetooth earbuds are also cheap these days. Not really a good excuse
Music is horrible but how about when they are scrolling through shorts or tiktok whith blasting sound? Like a never ending spirit box
Hearing two seconds of the worst possible version of a song you (used to before that) like. It’s like some punishment
I hate the people who get those shitty bluetooth speakers and blast them in public. The people who blast music from their phone’s speakers are assholes, but you could still say that they don’t have headphones on them, but the people with the speakers? They intentionally went out of their way to buy a device for the purpose of being a public nuisance. They’re a special of asshole.
Yeah. The proper way is to hook up your phone to, and carry around, your $2500 speakers with gold plated cables or whatever.
Now seriously, I don’t listen to music on the speakers because I’m mindful of other people, so I use headphones or simply don’t listen to music
audiophiles and introverts in hard agreement in this one. handshake meme.
I’m neither and i dont mind listening to the classical radio station on my phone in my house, or seeing the odd cooky character passing by with their music for a moment. as long as they’re only passing thru…
But react angry when you remind them that you’re not interested in their conversation!
If they were talking with somebody standing next to them, would you do the same? Ask them to please shut up? If not, why is this different?
Asking out of real curiosity. I don’t mind if people talk close to me in a puplic place, as I don’t demand silence around me. Never cares for if it’s on the phone or in person.
The difference is that when there are two people having a conversation they aren’t almost screaming, because they understand each other. Those using their phones like that however…
And yes, I tell them their shit doesn’t interest anyone. It’s helping when you look like an bad angry bearded biker.
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.
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.
The pandemic worsened the already excessive individualist value of capitalism.
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.
I have to disagree. 9 times out of 10, the song is being drowned out by the sound of the entire car rattling from the bass.
Personally, I prefer a much flatter EQ when listening to my music. I often times turn up the high-mids just a tad. I love a crispy high hat. Jacking the shit out of the bass is kind of spitting on the sound engineer that mixed and mastered the music. It’s like taking a medium rare A5 wagyu and dumping A1 sauce on it.
I was in this car yesterday. Dubstep and woofers. It detached my organs.
From my experience it only sounds good inside the car. Outside is just heavy bass
They want to inform the public of their incredible taste in music or their unfathomable depth of intelligence.
Public transportation people who want to start a fight
It’s almost always immigrants where I live. I don’t know what the fuck is up with that. Also doing video calls and yelling to their phone. It’s mad
I noticed it’s every body who does it. 😞
