Originally Posted by
prj71
Yes you are grumpy. Bluetooth / ANT+ technology has made wires obsolete in a lot of cases.
Why mess with wires when you don't have to?
Who buys a speaker and plugs it in with wires? We have little bluetooth speakers that sound 10x better than their wired counterparts of the past.
I'm a grumpy old man who likes wires, too. I also ride steel bikes. I do use bluetooth a lot, but it's not that reliable, at least here in Manhattan where there is a lot of interference. I even have one of my computers hooked up over wired ethernet. Yes wireless stuff is better in many ways, but when I want the best reliability, I use real cables. For example, during Pandemic, we had as many as three zoom calls simultaneously, and our internet connection was suboptimal. We ran cables through the house and wired all of our computers to the ethernet to get the most out of them.