{"id":298,"date":"2012-06-29T23:16:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T04:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2012-06-29T23:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T04:17:57","slug":"its-2012-wheres-the-next-gen-headphone-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/its-2012-wheres-the-next-gen-headphone-jack","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s 2012 where&#8217;s the next gen headphone jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just stood up from my computer, and discovered that the tensile strength of the cords for my my semi-expensive headphones is <em>less<\/em> than the resistive friction of the 3.5&#8243; headphone jack.<\/p>\n<p>By this, I mean that I snapped my headphone cords (earpiece and microphone) right there, the headphones coming with me and the jacks plugged firmly in the front of my computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WP_000023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-304\" title=\"Broken headphone cord\" src=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WP_000023-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WP_000023-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WP_000023.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This really sucks, and I&#8217;m frustrated to have now cost myself the price of a new pair of headphones (or, repair time).\u00a0But what <em>really<\/em> smarts about this is that the problem of tearing-plugged-in-computer-cords is a <strong>solved problem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MagSafe11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-307\" title=\"MagSafe Power Adapter\" src=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MagSafe11-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MagSafe11-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MagSafe11-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember this guy? The MagSafe power adapter, which keeps you from breaking your wall adapter\/the power cord\/your MacBook&#8217;s power socket?<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS IS HOW HEADPHONES SHOULD CONNECT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stood up from my computer, and discovered that the tensile strength of the cords for my my semi-expensive headphones is less than the resistive friction of the 3.5&#8243; headphone jack. By this, I mean that I snapped my headphone cords (earpiece and microphone) right there, the headphones coming with me and the jacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factormystic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}