Dateline 2-15-2017

How are we living in a time that is so technologically advanced to have so many products designed without using all that much foresight? Is it the fact that everything's so disposable now to where features are purposely overlooked to allow for double dipping into our pocket books with ever upgrading products?

First, I recently got a Galaxy Edge which is full of flaws compared to my last phone. For one, the headphone jack is super sensitive causing my wired headphones that work perfectly fine on other devices to constantly lose connection. This causes whatever I'm listening to stop instead of allowing me to wiggle the cord to reconnect, again like every other audio technology I've owned before this piece of garbage. Then when I hit play again the volume is recent to its default. I turn the volume up only to get a warning about volume levels that you're not allowed to ignore in the future. This type of fuckery happened so much that I finally gave in and updated my headphones.

I now have a pair of Bluetooth headphones that work pretty well as far as the sound goes. The only problem with these it that there's no energy gauge so I have no idea how long the battery will last for. The other day I was heading out for a walk but wasn't sure how much power was left in my headphones. I let it charge for an hour which doesn't mean much because I don't know how much juice it gave me. Of course, halfway through the walk, my source of entertainment was gone. So, then I was stuck with nothing to listen to while lugging around this useless technology.

Sure there is usually a workaround, I'm sure there's some setting that I can switch or an add-on app that will give a solution to the phone problem and the headphones have a way to hardwire into my phone to work around that issue but now I have to have extra apps and am now carrying around another accessory to convert my headphones into the setup that caused the problem in the first place.

I'm really beginning to miss the days when you bought something expecting it to last a lifetime but instead, all we've got is, "It is what it is," making us stuck in this cycle of garbage. Alright, now that I've got that off my chest, I can go on with my life and I'll be sure to check in tomorrow.

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker