For me, it’s an electric toothbrush. It doesn’t matter if you go with Sonicare or Oral-B, once you start using an electric toothbrush, regular toothbrushes don’t ever feel like they clean your teeth properly. The smooth plaque-free top layer of your teeth that you can feel after using an electric toothbrush can’t be replicated with a regular toothbrush.

  • Remy Rose@piefed.socialEnglish
    151·
    2 days ago

    There’s actually a pretty cool community sort of tangentially related to this! !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net

    Anyway, my pick is definitely just a GOOD mp3 player. Whether that be an open hardware one you can crack open and repair, a proprietary one that can at least be Rockboxed, or bare minimum a proprietary one with a good iFixit rating.

      • Remy Rose@piefed.socialEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago
        • Better quality DAC
        • Don’t have to drain my phone’s battery
        • My music collection is big enough to fill my phone’s storage, and they don’t come with SD card slots anymore
        • Smaller and lighter than a phone
        • Definitely will last way longer and is easier to
        • My phone doesn’t have a 3.5mm jack 😭

        That’s everything I can think of right now

        • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
          2·
          2 days ago

          well yeah. But most phones w/o a 3.5 mm jack don’t have an integrated DAC anyways, so the choice is up to you.

          But the storage and the fact that it’s all in a light weight bundle, that’s indepedent of your phone is pretty convincing.

          I remember having on, back in the day, that ran on a single AAA battery for a week an was marginally larger than one of these. Unfortunately I tinkered with trying to run it on an external power supply when I knew to little about electronics and ran a few too may Volts through it. Otherwise this thing would probably still work fine. I kinda never looked back since was content enough with my phone for listening to music. But I do have fond meories of those things, and I miss the 3.5 mm jack on my most recent phone, maybe I should reconsider…

          • Remy Rose@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Maybe so! If you do pick one up, you’ll have to tell us how it goes, I’m curious

            I guess it’s not for everybody, but for my specific context it’s pretty great. I think if I did have a phone with expandable storage, a 3.5mm jack, and still had an unlockable bootloader I could run Graphene/Lineage/Postmarket/etc on, it could probably replace the music player easily enough. I’d probably still end up eating a lot more battery that way though

      • deathbird@mander.xyz
        3·
        2 days ago

        Durability I imagine. My 10+ year old MP3 players still work fine. My phones from 5 years ago don’t.

      • wookiepedia@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        For me, the primary benefit is that it’s NOT my smartphone. Music is a separate, intentional thing, divorced from the pocket distraction machine. YMMV.