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
      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.