Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport?
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I really wish these people would understand that a tiny pair of wireless earbuds makes the audio sound so much better than a phone speaker.
Phone speaker should be silent and never used ever, no good has ever come out of a phone speaker. Use headphones instead all the time. I don’t even know why speakers exist on phones. I see kids and old ladies alike defaulting to speaker phone when they call people, they don’t use headphones (or, god forbid, put the phone up to their ear like we did for a hundred years).
Call me crotchety and grouchy or whatever, this is the hill I’m dying on.
Fuckers need to use some goddamn headphones.
There’s plenty of good uses. Phone speaker is real good when wife calls in the middle of an online match to double check something in a ten second call while actually at the store. I can mute my mic and take it with my gaming headphones still on.
But I’m the only one home, and, ya know, at home not public.
But she isn’t using phone speaker. And if she is, I’m gonna stare her down until she feels mildly uncomfortable about it and puts it away, cause this is my hill and I’m dying on it.
Oh no, not without very good reason (we have had to video call a doctor friend about a stranger while out in public, that was a weird day).
In general we’re right there with you. We grumble about how it seems that since COVID people have forgotten how to be considerate while out and about.
And drive. Everyone forgot how to drive during COVID and still haven’t re-learned.
I love using my phone speaker. I do not always have headphones in my ears. I know some people can walk around all day with an earbud in their head, but I am not one of them. When I am messing around on my phone and decide I need to watch a video that includes audio, I can just turn up my speaker and listen. At home only, mind you. I would have to be totally devoid of empathy to blast loud audio in public.
jdr@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I’m ok with the phone speaker being used for old-school phone call, and maybe if you’re in the bath.
Otherwise I’ll die next to you on that hill, my groucher in arms.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What I wanna know, is inside the mind of these people, do they not know that at the top of the phone is a smaller quiet speaker for putting against their ear, cause the microphone is at the bottom of the phone? I can clearly see they know there’s a microphone at the bottom, but then they turn on the big speaker and hold the whole phone away from their face?
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 1 week ago
My favorite is when they talk into the bottom and then quickly move it to their ear and back-and-forth for the whole call because places are louder than their speaker. Like, buddy, there’s a whole setup on your phone for putting it between your ear and your mouth for exactly this situation.
The answer is they want other people to hear their call for whatever reason. My theory: they’re insecure and want to feel important.