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[Lacy Duckwing]

I use duckduckgo but it has the same problem. I've been looking at getting a pair of reasonably priced wired earbuds that'll sound good to replace my dying wireless ones, but half the results are listicle garbage. "reddit" as a search starter works but it turns out anybody who might be knowledgeable about these kinds of things has a million different answers.

Samsung or Apple? Unfortunately, I'm clueless about prices, just hear that they are good. I think mine are Samsung (they were given to me), and they're pretty good.

 

[notabitail]

Samsung or Apple? Unfortunately, I'm clueless about prices, just hear that they are good. I think mine are Samsung (they were given to me), and they're pretty good.

My wireless ones are some $30 JLab things. They work fine but they're starting to slowly die (low battery life). As much as I like the wireless I'm probably going to get wired since they'll last longer.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

My wireless ones are some $30 JLab things. They work fine but they're starting to slowly die (low battery life). As much as I like the wireless I'm probably going to get wired since they'll last longer.

Real quick on that thought, what will you be using them with? A lot of phones now don't have the earbud port anymore and now you have to use the charging port. I don't have an adapter, so I only use mine on my tablet and laptop (I wanted them for my laptop).

 

[azurbanclucker]

I use duckduckgo but it has the same problem. I've been looking at getting a pair of reasonably priced wired earbuds that'll sound good to replace my dying wireless ones, but half the results are listicle garbage. "reddit" as a search starter works but it turns out anybody who might be knowledgeable about these kinds of things has a million different answers.

Wired? They're all more or less the same. I've never found any I was overly excited about, and they're all in that "toss them once every 6 mos" price range.

Wireless, though:

https://rayconglobal.com/collections/earbuds (reasonably priced, not terrible sound quality

https://www.skullcandy.com/products/sesh-anc-active?variant=43215584297017
These are my everyday buds and have been for 5 years. They're out of stock but worth the price.

 

[notabitail]

Real quick on that thought, what will you be using them with? A lot of phones now don't have the earbud port anymore and now you have to use the charging port. I don't have an adapter, so I only use mine on my tablet and laptop (I wanted them for my laptop).

I've got a dongle to plug them in to my phone. Annoying, but it is what it is.

If anyone here's got some good recommendations for great sounding $50 wired buds, I'd like to hear them. Most likely will use them for the consumption of various media, including music, podcasts, and youtube stuff.

 

[WingItRanch]

QUESTION: I’ve a YouTube channel where I upload videos of my trips and such.
I’d like a public gallery (like youtube, but for photos) to share photos as well, but I’m not sure if such a thing exists?

All I’ve seen is geared toward professional photographers. I’m just trying to share some of my photos with the old ladies at church and anyone else who’s interested.

Do you have an Amazon Prime account? If so, it comes with free photo cloud storage called Amazon Photos. It allows you to share albums with friends and family. I don't believe they have to have Amazon to see them.

 

[Evadig]

Do you have an Amazon Prime account? If so, it comes with free photo cloud storage called Amazon Photos. It allows you to share albums with friends and family. I don't believe they have to have Amazon to see them.

I don’t. But that’s another thing to look into .

 

[kattabelly]

I have wired earbuds because you're not supposed to use Bluetooth stuff on the local aeroplanes here (lots of folk do anyway but I feel like ignoring supposed "safety" rules is a bad idea unless you actually know something about the topic in question). I've never paid quite as much as $50 but the wires always seem to get damaged really quickly if you're using them out & about and putting them in you bag or a pocket. Wireless last much longer ime.

 

[notabitail]

I have wired earbuds because you're not supposed to use Bluetooth stuff on the local aeroplanes here (lots of folk do anyway but I feel like ignoring supposed "safety" rules is a bad idea unless you actually know something about the topic in question). I've never paid quite as much as $50 but the wires always seem to get damaged really quickly if you're using them out & about and putting them in you bag or a pocket. Wireless last much longer ime.

From what I know the whole "Bluetooth can't be used on airplane" really isn't true. As far as I know it won't cause any issues for it. Bluetooth is a fairly wimpy signal compared to even a simple wifi network.

 

[kattabelly]

From what I know the whole "Bluetooth can't be used on airplane" really isn't true. As far as I know it won't cause any issues for it. Bluetooth is a fairly wimpy signal compared to even a simple wifi network.

My (extremely limited tbf) understanding is that that's the case but the local planes here are pretty small and basic - especially on inter-isles services - and anyway, I don't want to be that rude person sitting there fiddling with their wireless headphones right in front of the cabin crew who've just asked everyone to pay attention to the safety briefing and not use bluetooth devices.

Plus I generally don't like to ignore safety rules unless I have a better understanding of the reasons behind them than just reading the first few lines of results from a quick internet search. And I don't care enough about how bluetooth or planes work to bother doing more than that