I don't think the use of pro audio gear is a compelling reason for leaving a headphone jack that's driven by a consumer grade chip set in an electrically noisy environment. Anyone that's actually really doing pro level audio work is probably using an external DAC or something, or at least should be.

... every day. Versatile (albeit low bandwidth and noisy) DAC/ADC is a very useful thing to have around. In addition to being able to produce/record audio, most audio devices can be used as a crude function generator and/or oscilloscope (with obvious limitations on bandwidth). Bluetooth, in my opinion, is a poor replacement for a number of reasons, especially device battery capacity/longevity, wonky software implementations, and more importantly, lack of nearly universal compatibility. While the standard 3.5mm plug is a bit fragile, the cables and connectors are very inexpensive. A slightly thicker connector would be a major improvement (even just 4mm), but I don't think a new standards war would help anyone.

Pro audio gear uses the jacks they omitted and the crappy stuff uses the mini headphone jack.

I sit in front of a desktop and work in units of CD. Start a CD, work, when the CD is done take a break. Desktop is plugged into high quality wireless headphones, and my MP3s are good quality.

With the laptop I'm usually somewhere where listening to music isn't appropriate. Otherwise I use my phone's headphone jack.

Oddly enough, I'd never thought of it before. I don't think I've ever used my laptop's headphone jack. When I would, the headphones are plugged into my phone.

I listen to music and other audio on my ASUS laptop. Grado headphones and M-AUDIO speakers.

Well, then clearly your problems don't lie with asylum claimants, so I don't understand why you complained about them in particular.

What should I call you? And don’t call me Shirley.

Without my laptop in front of me, I can't even tell you whether or not it has a headphone jack, nor what side it's on.

In the environments most consumer-types listen to audio, there's no discernible difference in quality between a good analog and a good wireless set of headphones. Even in the average office there's enough noise pollution to negate any perceived 'better quality' in wired headphones. People are just used to what they're used to. Feel free to keep listening to digital music/books/whatever pushed through 60 year-old analog technology. Totally makes sense. (not) If you bought a new HDTV and it had analog knobs on it you'd be enraged.

Got into a discussion about audio quality on the headphones I happened to be wearing. This happened while I was actually on a moving train. A loud one. Sorry, dude, if you're telling me analog beats wireless sound quality on a noisy train, you're just part of the cult.

It sounds better and clearer to me, at least. I don't have any quantitative way to measure it.

To be fair, I have no problem with the US shitting on itself in any way that US denizens deem suitable. Fortunately I'm very far away. Clearly it wouldn't be the first agreement you pedal out of, nor would it be the last. Witness the recent Iran thing where the orange monkey first tore up the deal and then whined when Iranians didn't want to continue abiding by it.

The vast majority NEVER FILE CLAIMS at all. They just disappear.

No, the sound coming from the headphone jack has noticeably noise. I wish that it was a headset jack that allows for a microphone and headphones for meetings. Often I find myself yelling into the laptop.

If its a MacBook, it's not going to matter much, right? Because MacBooks are banned by the FAA for exploding batteries? LOL.

The later decision can't have any bearing on the previous treatment of the claimants. It's basically the same principle as the one saying that people awaiting criminal trial should not be treated as guilty in advance.

92 percent of individuals who filed asylum claims attended their court hearings between fiscal years 2013 and 2017

Asylum seekers released from detention to pursue their claims attend immigration court hearings nearly 100 percent of the time

Unreal.

That's an excellent point. But I'd put that under the category of if they won't sell me the game, I'll get it "elsewhere".

At the moment I don't think it is going anywhere good. Here in Canada we are on a severe left-ward swing with what used to be a centrist party getting hi-jacked by a far left agenda. In response the rightwing seems to be getting more and more right wing as if this will somehow compensate.

In the old model when one party went out to one extreme the opposition quickly moved back towards the centre since they knew that this was where most of the votes were. Now the response seems to be the opposite. Hopefully some political parties will start to figure out that there is a large raft of centrist voters looking for someone to vote for before things go too far are we have to choose facism or communism (which are really just flip sides of the same coin).

Yes, and not having one is a 100% deal breaker.

And no, you can't take my "legacy" USB-A port either. That would be a stupid gesture.

In pursuit of "thinness" and an unbroken glass front, the laptop has speakers that are poor quality and face sideways, so the headphone jack is used more often than it should be.

I just now logged in after reading this story to try to cancel my account with them (fat chance of that) and when I clicked on the help center link I was instead served some random person's report from Topeka, Kansas (I live in South Carolina).

This is absolutely NOT fixed.

Define 'better'. You're pushing digital music through an analog port/device. Unless you got your wheels of steel hooked up to the laptop ...

It's also not the case that every cubic millimeter of space a headphone jack occupies inside a laptop needs to be reclaimed so it will fit into your pocket.

As am I. And every day at the office.

I agree with this completely. For pro audio/hifi, you may want to use an external DAC anyway. I love being able to plug in headphones though to lessen the complexity and lag of bluetooth. Not to mention potential BT interference, especially in a cube farm.

we're capable of holding two thoughts in our heads at once and they don't have to contradict each other. We can oppose human rights violations in China and America.

It's right there in the name. A concentration camp is just a camp where a certain population is concentrated. We had concentration camps for the Japanese citizens in WWII. Ask George Takei.

What scares people about the camps on the boarder is two fold:

1. This is exactly how the Nazi's got their start; making camps for refugees. They were even closed briefly, which leads us to the next point:

2. Building concentration camps for refugees builds the infrastructure needed for concentration camps for citizens.

I'll tell you what, if I was Hispanic in America right now I'd be losing my God damned shit. Same if I was Jewish.

Indeed, for Google 70 workers basically a drop in the ocean, 0%, barely a noise.

Especially on a laptop, I may be out somewhere that I'd like to keep my audio private or courteously not annoy others with it, and all my headphones are wired because I don't want to charge them or worry about them running out of charge, and I like them to be light.

If I had some kind of professional need, I'd appreciate the reliability of a wired connection and the low latency, but also I might be using some kind of a breakout device rather than direct analog audio.

On an iPad pro w/ headphone jack, sometimes I play with GarageBand for fun and it has a very annoying message if I use it while connected to a bluetooth audio receiver (not headphones in my case). The latency isn't enough for me to care, but the annoying message and having to dismiss it every time is the main reason I choose an inconvenient wired audio connection for it. It's a different setup because it's going to an audio device across the room instead of a short distance for headphones. If I could simply suppress that message, I'd choose bluetooth but also I'm not trying to use headphones there.

No, it was declared by the government that was democratically elected more than a year later.

They would have liked to restore the legitimate government to power, but they had all just been executed by the People's Revolutionary Army.

Who uses the build in speakers? I never did in the last 20 years.