But hey if you use The App™ you can turn it on and off from your couch. Also that pairing feature you paid for is only available when using The App™, pc users can get fucked.
Oops The App™ depended on a server we’ve now shut down in favor of supporting The App™ Elite Edition, which does not support your device. Please upgrade to a new speaker
Oops actually now you have to upgrade to a new speaker, because since the old ones are no longer supported by The App™ Elite Edition, we have done you a “favor” and remotely bricked the device so now what was once repurposable electronics must basically be “recycled” (read: burned to release tasty toxins) because we hate you and the environment and ourselves.
Or my meat thermometer. The on/off button also changes between Fahrenheit and Celsius. Neither of which is done with a single press. You have to press and hold for different lengths of time but for the life of me, I can’t figure out the pattern.
I bought a cheap set of speakers for my workshop PC.
They have two buttons. One is the combined mode/on/off button. Short press turns it on, another short press cycles through different modes, which are not explained anywhere, but have different LED colors. One mode (line in) looks almost exactly like the red standby led, it just has a bit of a blue LED also lit. Pressing it long turns it off.
The second button switches between a regular and a “speech bubble” mode. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to do. However, longpressing that button switches between speakers and headphones.
Then there’s the volume knob. It’s extremely non-linear and has a delay of a second or two, so you have to be really precise. The volume knob is also not really synced to the headphone amp, so each time you put on headphones, you have to turn the volume like crazy, and then remember to turn it down again.
And the maximum fuck you: the speakers are so lightweight, that they slip around when trying to press the buttons, so you always need two hands.
Absolute garbage. Why are they going out of their way to create a worse product? It doesn’t make sense.
I have no local thrift store, and the speakers you can find here are often too big. I just wanted small cheap speakers to listen to YouTube videos and essentially an extension cord to plug my (proper) headphones into.
I mean, soundwise they’re fine. Not awesome, but for the price perfectly ok. It’s just that everything else is crap for no reason.
Don’t even get me started on something as simple as a bluetooth speaker.
Quick press to turn on and off. Short hold to get into bluetooth pairing mode. Long hold to get into stereo pairing mode.
What’s the fucking problem with having more buttons??
Like entering a fatality just to turn the mofo off.
But hey if you use The App™ you can turn it on and off from your couch. Also that pairing feature you paid for is only available when using The App™, pc users can get fucked.
Oops The App™ depended on a server we’ve now shut down in favor of supporting The App™ Elite Edition, which does not support your device. Please upgrade to a new speaker
Oops actually now you have to upgrade to a new speaker, because since the old ones are no longer supported by The App™ Elite Edition, we have done you a “favor” and remotely bricked the device so now what was once repurposable electronics must basically be “recycled” (read: burned to release tasty toxins) because we hate you and the environment and ourselves.
Or my meat thermometer. The on/off button also changes between Fahrenheit and Celsius. Neither of which is done with a single press. You have to press and hold for different lengths of time but for the life of me, I can’t figure out the pattern.
I bought a cheap set of speakers for my workshop PC.
They have two buttons. One is the combined mode/on/off button. Short press turns it on, another short press cycles through different modes, which are not explained anywhere, but have different LED colors. One mode (line in) looks almost exactly like the red standby led, it just has a bit of a blue LED also lit. Pressing it long turns it off.
The second button switches between a regular and a “speech bubble” mode. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to do. However, longpressing that button switches between speakers and headphones.
Then there’s the volume knob. It’s extremely non-linear and has a delay of a second or two, so you have to be really precise. The volume knob is also not really synced to the headphone amp, so each time you put on headphones, you have to turn the volume like crazy, and then remember to turn it down again.
And the maximum fuck you: the speakers are so lightweight, that they slip around when trying to press the buttons, so you always need two hands.
Absolute garbage. Why are they going out of their way to create a worse product? It doesn’t make sense.
your local thrift store often has bookshelf speaker sets for $5
I have no local thrift store, and the speakers you can find here are often too big. I just wanted small cheap speakers to listen to YouTube videos and essentially an extension cord to plug my (proper) headphones into.
I mean, soundwise they’re fine. Not awesome, but for the price perfectly ok. It’s just that everything else is crap for no reason.
I saw a flashlight that had almost a dozen functions buried in a single button.