Previously posted in mildly interesting a year ago, doesn’t qualify anymore: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18714104
Probably disintegrating, I don’t know. But now I’ll finally have to buy new ones. Currently there’s 6 oozing points in total. 3 are minor, one is now inactive (the 2024 pimple), one I taped over, but it’s starting to overflow, and one near the jack is major.
I now cannot plug them in without getting sticky residue everywhere. Also the rubber on the outside is starting to crumble a bit.
I am a cheapskate, but this may be their end.
Whaa, a follow up on the pimple headphones!? Ouch, yeah that looks even worse now, crazy that you kept using them even after all this time, yeah, that looks like replacing time indeed.
If it didn’t sound like a possibly very unsafe idea I’d say i wonder how much it would degrade and how would it look if you sealed it on some kind of bag and left it there for a very log time haha
pffffftttt i dont buy it… no way youve had a pair of earphones for a year
At least 2.
Because it’s two ears after all.
Mine have relaceable cables. Uhm, in-ear, not earphone.
Try isopropyl alcohol 70%. The stuff you use for disinfectant in the first aid aisle. Soft rubbery plastics do this over time. The alcohol will strip the soft material that is disintegrating and leave the smooth plastic behind.
Problem is, it leaks from the inside.
At this point I don’t think he’s trying to fix the problem.
I’ve had cables so this after ten (five of I left em in the car) so maybe they’re a touch old?
Bro just clean your ears bro
I’ll give you a nickel if you lick it
"If I had a nickle everytime someone wanted me to lick unidentified goo from someone, I’d have 10 nickles and a weird aftertaste.
Oh boy!!! Just what I was looking for. How much for a pint of certified organic cable syrup? Can you guarantee it’s less than 1% earwax by weight? If so I can go as high as tree fiddy.
My usual source on FB marketplace is playing hard to get. They said ‘I know what I’ve got and I won’t take less than a dub’. What a scammer LOL. Unless that syrup is gold plated I ain’t paying 20 bucks for a pint, smh.
It’s just going trough puberty
It’s lived past is expected use case a set of headphones should be, this is reality bleading though your headphones.
I think it’s infected. You better take them to Dr. Dre.
Who?
mike jones.
Dr Who isn’t that kind of a doctor.
Depends on what the underlying problem in. How many people’s headphones are oozing goo? It could be an invasion!
Not a medical doctor. As such.
Ya’ll forgot about Dre!?!
Nowadays, everybody wants to talk
Like they got somethin to say
I wonder what the critical mass of people has to be, on average, for this to get through the chorus here.
But… nothing comes out when they move they lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
and motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre
Beat me to it.
Ok, so, A. Buy new earbuds. And B. Don’t throw them away, give their “body” to science, I want a full autopsy of these.
Yeah, but slightly cheaper earbuds so you can also buy an xacto knife to cut these bad boys open.
You clearly left out the main thing anyone would need to troubleshoot this issue… what kind of music are you listening to. Obviously low quality music will wreck headphones no matter how good they are.
Skrillex actually.
probably Psalm 69 by Minstry, I made the same mistake in high school, my headphones didn’t leak anything, but several lesser demons briefly manifested. I just went back to listening to White Zombie, and it all calmed down.
Liar! Blasphemer!
Music so touching, it brought the cable to tears.
We live is corrosive atmosphere.
When rubber and plastic run out of antioxidants they will disintegrate or turn in to a slime.
When using recycled plastics, this a real wild card. The levels can wary wildly from batch to batch, so even the manufacturer doesn’t really have clue. Only occasionally tested minimum level.
Pristine shit can be used more for planned obsolesce.
I also had this once.
This might be the answer: https://integraudio.com/why-headphones-cable-sticky/
This is AI slop? Words to content ratio is way too high.
It is absolutely slop whether a human or AI vomited those words onto the page. So much fucking repetitive filler.
Send them to their resting place, they’ve done all they can
