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I'm particularly frustrated with the market for phones. I'w not going to buy an iPhone, and I'd really like to avoid the Google ecosystem (eg, by using GrapheneOS). I just received new Pixel 6a phones for me and my family yesterday only to discover that there's no 3.5mm jack.

I really feel like old man yelling at cloud, but the more advanced phones and the software get, the more I miss the days of my cheapy Motorola flip phone.

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For about $6 from Apple you can buy one of the best-quality audio DACs available and connect your headphones to your Pixels.

(You bought several new phones without checking their specs? Come on.)

you've got to be very disconnected to not know that 3.5mm jacks have been removed from most modern phones by now (a terrible choice, I agree)

I don't follow advances in phones - new models coming out are never on my radar. So if a manufacturer drops functionality like that, I don't notice. And literally every phone I've owned for my nearly 25 years of cell usage has had a 3.5mm jack, so it's never had to be a conscious choice.

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