three or four years ago i thought i lost the headphones (got to coffeeshop, backpack was open, couldn't find headphones, turned out they were just that buried in the bottom of my bag but i didn't find them for like a week) and bought a replacement pair that had touch controls on the ear cup. Like, tap the ear cup to play/pause/skip
this was a horrible idea on account of when you stretch your arm, your skin touches the ear cup and your music just ...stops playing? so dumb. anyway that and the dedicated phone voice assistant button both have gone by the wayside so now I just have to contend with "no i don't want you to pause because I took one ear out" which is easily solved by just buying the less posh ones
Oct 19, 2026, 9:48 PM@nasamuffin I think the era of capacitative touch buttons on everything was started by someone who absolutely doesn't have cats.
@sj 100%