u/JadeThePilgrim

I've been loyal to my smokey pink WH-XM5 headphones ever since I bought them in November 2024. I have never used any other headphones or earphones ever since I got them, and I have carried them everywhere with me. Office, travel, leisure, video conferences, movies, calls, you name it. They are perfect and I love them.

A couple weeks ago, I bought the brand new Samsung Galaxy Buds4 Pro and have been quite obsessed with them, and have quickly been spending more time with them, resulting in not turning on the XM5's for a few days until now. When I finally picked them up again an hour ago, they began stuttering a lot when playing the music, cutting in and out of the audio, and have connected and disconnected several times on their own accord. This has never happened throughout my entire time of using them. I had to change the Bluetooth Connection Quality option in the Sony Sound Connect app from Prioritize Sound Quality to Prioritize Stable Connection for the first time ever to fix this issue. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be happening anymore.

I don't know, I think they may be jealous of the earbuds and are acting out. The earbuds are also pink and they sleep next to each other on my bed. I may need to put them both on a schedule so they get to spend a fair and equal amount of time with me.

Thoughts?

hi guys, this is just an issue i managed to resolve by myself but thought i'd share, in case other people are facing it. so i tried out the new airdrop feature by one ui 8.5 (well, to be precise, quick share) and sent some photos from an iphone 12 to my s25u. when the pics sent and i chose the open pic option, it brought me to gallery but the pics were nowhere to be found as i scoured my entire gallery a few times. surprisingly, they showed up in my files, google gallery and google photos, but not in the main gallery at all. i fixed this by going to the location of the pics in my files—in this case, it was in Internal storage/Download/Quick Share—and moved the file to Internal storage/DCIM/Camera. and now the airdropped photos immediately show up in gallery. hope this helps!

I have a lot of pets and animals on my farm that I named after people I know. One of them was named after someone who used to be my best friend, Melly (not real name). We had parted ways recently, and I miss her so much. Earlier I was on Stardew and looking through my chests, and saw some butterfly powder which I've never used and I got curious so I used it on the pet walking closest to me which was a turtle. I have so many animals, I don't remember each and every one of their names.

Before I knew it, there was a poof and the turtle was gone, and a dialogue box had popped up, saying "Goodbye, Melly..."

It made me a bit sad, that's all. I could restart the day, but... it would only bring the turtle back. Not her.

so a couple days ago i posted about waiting for my pink gold buds 4 pro to arrive, and they just did in all their glory. i had low expectations to be honest, since i am regularly spoiled by my Sony WH1000-XM5 headphones, and in-ear tends to sound different from over-ear anyway, but when i put them on the first time and played a song i was actually so shocked—the music sounds aMAZING. like, i legit almost teared up (i had put on anything 4 u by LANY) the audio quality was so so good straight out of the box. they fit very comfortably in my ears too although i did have to switch to the smallest tips straight away for a better fit, hopefully they don't start aching after long-term wear. i haven't tweaked any of settings except the ANC because there were so many and i got overwhelmed—i will do that right after this—but i am already loving this a LOT!!!! the case is cute and feels nice, the pink gold color is just gorgeous, and overall it's a very satisfying purchase... hopefully i don't run into the battery drain issue immediately!

edit: the smooth option in the equaliser makes the sound so beautiful. this is seriously on par with my XM5s. zero regrets. the way this is already like my 4th edit, i keep finding more and more things that i like about them. i'm in love i'm obsessed

I just placed an order for the pink gold galaxy buds4 pro, and i'm sooo excited! these will be my very first pair of earpods ever (i'm more of a headphone girly, have stuck with my Sony WH1000-XM5 but thought it was time to buy myself some earpods) and i've read a lot of reviews but i would still like to know the great things you guys have to say about the buds4 pro so i have a lot to look forward to 🥹

I've been exclusively using the xm5 that I bought in 2024 whenever I wanted to wear headphones. No other wireless or wired headphones, or earbuds, or earphones... and a couple days ago I decided to buy some wired earphones just in case I ever needed them. I did search online for good earphones, preferably directly sold by the brands themselves like samsung, since I'm using the Galaxy S25U, but for some reason they were so hard to find so I just purchased these samsung AKG earphones from a random electronic store (still online, claims the product is 100% original from samsung) and they just sounded so... loud and scratchy(?) I'm wondering if I've forgotten how music sounds like through wired earphones, or if these earphones are just of bad quality, or the xm5 is just that good. edit: feel free to drop recommendations of your favorite wired earphones! they don't need to be high-end or bank-breaking, just an alternative pair to wear, but i still would like them to sound moderately nice. oh, and type C, of course!

This is more of a rant than anything. I've been playing on this one game platform for almost two years now. I've made a lot of friends there and lost just as much. I've even considered a few of them just as important as my irl friends, not that I have a lot of those. I've experienced joy, laughter, competition, even tears, and I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

But recently due to my personal life situation, I'd made the decision to remove myself from that platform. I have had a lot of trouble with my job lately and it had quite an impact on my life financial-wise which in turn affected my mental and well-being. Because of that, I took an abrupt break from the platform, telling my online friends I was only going to be gone for a couple weeks at most to sort my situation out. I thought I would be gone for two weeks at most, which actually in game-time already feels like months. Time moves weird there, maybe because it immerses you so heavily in it.

Unlike my expectations, things started to become progressively worse for me. And maybe any other person would go to their friends and tell them what's gone wrong and what has been troubling them, but I don't feel like doing that. I don't want to tell any of them that my life's going horrible at the moment, and that I might have to take a break from the game because I don't have time to juggle being on it and sorting out my life at the same time. I don't want them to offer comforting words and it's-gonna-be-okay's and I don't want to pretend like I'm comforted and tell them not to worry and that I'll be okay.

Discord is our primary form of communication outside of the game, and you know what I did based on the title. So maybe that's a coward's way out. Maybe I should have just dropped a message to them before I left, saying that it's gonna be a while before I come back, instead of just disappearing. Maybe I should have settled with deactivating it instead of deleting it, so that I'd still have all the chats and media and memories saved. But the biggest maybe is, maybe I've wanted to leave for a while now. This past year, I kept saying and thinking that I would, but something or someone had always made me turn back around and stayed. This time, I may have found a real excuse to leave, and I'm not jumping for joy over it.

As I'm typing this, I realise that maybe I've never viewed my online friends as real people before, because we've never met irl and we never will. I know they're real as hell and they might get upset or disappointed that I vanished off the face of the earth without leaving a single note. But for most of them, the game was the only thing that linked us together, the only thing that we had in common, the only reason we became friends. Without the game, there's nothing to connect us. It'll be easy for them to find new me's, and they'll probably feel annoyed about me for one day and then forget about me. It's easier this way—no goodbyes, no dramatic exit, no false promise that I'll be back within a certain timeframe.

Or maybe I'm just a fake selfish bitch who thinks that writing a lengthy post on reddit will get rid of the guilt and make a difference. I sincerely hope that once my life turns around and I'm able to be happy to be alive again, I can go back to them and continue playing the game.

cockroaches are nothing new in this house. there's one every other day, usually very late at night, in the kitchen, in the dark. but i noticed there's an upsurge of cockroaches recently—in the kitchen, in the bathroom, toilet, and even in my room just now. it's not even midnight yet. four cockroaches in the span of 4 hours. FOUR! and my parents literally don't care. "just spray them" "you'll live" "there was one in my hair when i was sleeping yesterday lol" HELLO PEOPLE???!! THERE'S A LITERAL INFESTATION HAPPENING HERE!!!!!!! THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM OH MY GOD AND THEY'RE ALL HUGE AS FUCK guys the one in my room is my last straw, i am now sitting in the living room with a big bottle of cockroach spray next to me. what can i do to prevent this. i see one, i spray, they die, 10 minutes later another one pops up. rinse and repeat. this is not a healthy way to live. this is a TINY HOUSE THERE'S NOT MUCH PLACE TO RUN! this is severely impacting my peace and mental health, please send help.