This topic is a massive waste of time. Nobody with a life should go through the effort of learning how to understand how electronics work just so they can reduce the radiation they experience. Most people have far more important things to do than to go through the effort iy would take to truly understand determine what radiation their devices are emitting. I have a hard time coming up with a flattering reason why you are bothering with this topic. Can you help me?
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You better not dig too deep into history, medicine, finance, health, spirituality, psychology and tech because whatever you think you or everyone around you knows, it's often just surface level and most likely completely wrong. 🌚
You are missing the whole point: I DON'T think I know anything. Certainly not anything that requires agonizing about evidence, requires expensive research, and requires performing dozens and dozens of experiments.
Wisdom is having the ability to make the decisions that matter WITHOUT needing to know the irrelevant facts and context. I genuinely cannot be forced to care about how ultra-beta radiation is turning you gay.
I just can't think of any good reason why you would spend so much time focusing on a topic that nobody will ever meaningfully engage with. Ok. Everything we believe is completely wrong. Why the fuck would you or anyone else do the insane level of work required to actually know that for sure or argue with you? Do you expect me to believe you were actually retarded enough to spend the thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours required to actually determine for yourself whether any of this is bullshit? Do you not value your time at all? Do you think a person who is secure in their deductive reasoning skills would choose a topic they know nobody will ever put in the work to challenge and engage with them on?
Tell me, how I am supposed to interpret your decision?
Re: your final question: Don't know, don't care. I just try to seek truth. If not knowing and not caring works for you, more power to you. Your initial note just seemed like you were trying to gatekeep what people should do with their time which always rubs me the wrong way. Would be weird though if you actually formed opinions on people for caring about something and dedicating time to it.
What's weirder is someone doing something with their free time and NOT thinking it's objectively meaningful. If you think something is a good hobby and use of your time then it would show confidence and respect to argue that it's a a good use of everyone's time. And in my case, I see someone doing something that I believe is an objectively bad hobby and because I respect and am interested in OP's ideas, I choose to share that and engage with him. What's more respectful? To talk with someone you think is making a mistake? Or to ignore their mistake and pretend everything is fine?
It provides more and more meaning in an otherwise meaningless world because it shatters the illusions. Whether its analyzing marketing, influence operations, psyops, scams, technology, religion, people, politics, conspiracies. Most of what I research gives me valuable tools in everyday life.
For me, I accepted that people on the Internet will think and do things I don't think are useful, but people do it anyway because it provides them with something I may not even know or see. If none of that is meaningful, I don't know what is.
You do you, all good.
What tools does it give you? The ability to rationalize distancing yourself from people who are different than you?
Buddy we are humans. We are people. If we have a passion then it shouldn't be something that provides us with something that others don't know or see. We should be able to articulate what makes our passions great, and we should be able to justify them to others.
Rationalizing away how "uhm, well, they probably have a good reason for doing that... I shouldn't judge them if I've never been in their shoes..." DUDE! Make them TELL you the reason! If you don't know what their hobby is like then take their shoes from them by force and see for yourself!
I expect you to be better than this. If you think conspiracy theories are great then why half ass it. Have you interviewed electronics engineers? Have you designed or tested electronics yourself? If this is a good hobby then why are you so hesitant to do it right?
I work in tech and have a good understanding of how this particular scam works, which components are involved and how I could identify this myself. I also don't rationalize away anything, especially not suspicious behavior. I don't even know where this idea comes from. I was only speaking about random people on the internet having opinions and interests. If I'm curious about about someone's interest or if I don't get why they do something, I'll ask, of course. If I don't care, I scroll on.
I think I'm not really sure I grok your actual problem here or I misinterpret what you're saying. So let me provide an example and tell me if I'm completely off:
I'm not going to tell someone warning about some scam (or someone discovering and explaining it) that they should do something that's more useful in my opinion. Were you just interested in this particular interest or did you dislike someone would be warning about this kind of scam?
I hate that they didn't physically cut these devices open to show us the internals! I hate that they ride a bike off into the middle of nowhere to demonstrate that there is a bluetooth device when beinging the device that doesn't show up when they leave it at home! I hate that they don't show to popularity of wired vs wireless devices of the same type! I hate that they don't show the cost of manufacturing both types of devices! I hate that they don't have so much as a single tangible anecdote as to the effects of such an adapter! And most of all I hate that they think this is a good topic to post about when nobody else gives a shit enough to do any of these things either!
The only scam I see here is OP presenting this as something that benefits us to think about! Again, where is the benefit? What is the tool? Where are the anecdotes about this product? Or better yet, who is taking the time to reproduce an actual study on the effects of gadiation exposure? Does OP actually care? Or does OP just like being able to half assing something and know that nobody else will bother to meet his level of effort?
If you prefer uncompressed audio or have high end headphones you'll need a wired dongle to hook it up to your phone. I don't know how much money OP has but I wouldn't cut up two devices just to prove a point. There's no need to tear them apart: The instructions tell you it only works with Bluetooth enabled.
There are many reasons to care about this: Cheap Bluetooth chips won't last long, won't deliver the audio you expect, won't support higher bandwidth/lower compression codecs and may interfere with your WiFi because they're on an overlapping spectrum without being certified to behave well around other devices.
No need to be obsessive about your EMF exposure.
Ohhhh... Rusty is obsessive about his EMF exposure. That's the only reason I was replying. All the other stuff you are talking about is very reasonable to be upset at and post about. I really thought we were talking about the same thing. Do we understand eachother now, or is there still an issue?
Oh, so am I. I mostly use wired headphones/IEMs, disable WiFi and airplane mode my devices at night. Been too deep into the health rabbithole not to. Heavily into Jack Kruse, Robert O Becker, and the likes.
I get where you were coming from now and that the EMF thing seems to have been a major factor in your initial note.
If you're curious, this is a good intro into the topic, just in case: https://youtu.be/TcbuqQd57rY