Steam was ass because it was just a an update platform, and most of us still had 56k or isdn as their means to the Internet and gaming. Yea it sucked when updates came out and you had to patch, it was a new thing to get patches like that vs buying a physical disk and the game just worked and didn’t require a day 1 update.

But they don’t have a monopoly…they just provide a superior product. Anyone can open another marketplace up, a lot have. There are no laws saying they can’t and valve has never tried to suggest they can’t.

They using concrete drills or something? Cause normal drills shouldn’t be that loud.

Well your questions sparked me to look again for a short cable that’s not $40…

And whatdaknow found these, look like same quality as the expensive ones and like $6. I ordered the blue and silver ones.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809616408632.html

Once they get here in two weeks I’m going to try them out…but now I need to find a DAC/amp combo that’s clip on lol

The issue I have with those is the wires going down my shirt and into my pocket. I have been thinking of looking for a clip on BT DAC/AMP to clip to my shirt neck and then a super short wire, but I can’t find super short wires for whatever reason (that aren’t priced at like $40). So I think I’m going to have to figure out how to make a pair.

Anc for me doesn’t really matter (only other noise I battle against is farm animals or equipment), if you have a good seal on your IEMs, then you’re not going to hear anything but the music anyways. Using my farm equipment, it’s actually quieter with IEMs than it was with neckbands that had ANC anyways.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256812758772320.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

5181pro, that uses the qcc5181 BT chip. Then I have mmcx to .78 2pin ear loops (you can find them for like $5). This allows me to swap out to other pin outs as well if I ever get IEMs with different pinouts than the most common (.78). The battery lasts me two days of 8-10 hour listening and they’re decently well built. Way way stronger than the single cord ones you can get for cheaper. There is a 8 core braided one that nutty on YT suggestes to get but he suggested it back when it was $80 now it’s $130ish and that was just way to much for my taste.

I went over to IEMs a month ago. Bought a solid Bluetooth 5.4 neckband for them, and now I have like 5 pairs of IEMs. BT neckband I can pop open and replace it’s battery as well (soldering required but non destructive). They sound a million times better than any of my TWS earbuds or neckbands and they are cheaper. To top it all off, because it’s 3 different parts, if something breaks I can replace just it and not have to deal with tossing the whole thing. I wish I had known about them years ago.

Fair enough, I just feel like the tankies here are home grown morons lol

Naa those aren’t bots though, that’s literally tankies doing that shit.

Look at the little tankie brigade down voting anything that they don’t like when you call them out in a instance they don’t control lol

You tankies don’t need to be called bots, you do that shit all on your own. The fediverse and Lemmy is way to small for russia to give a shit about it. You guys spew tankie shit for free for them.

Israel…El-Sayed isn’t supporting Israel… that’s why these Zionist are wanting to have their followers vote for the GOP…