We have a cat who likes to chew wires. My husband, whose desk was in an area the cat hangs out in, replaced his keyboard and mouse with wireless set after losing several wired sets to the cat.
The can also be good if you have a tight or awkward space, and don’t want wires in the way. Or if you have a laptop without a lot of USB connections, and you can attach both the mouse and they keyboard via one dongle, and not need a separate cord for each. (Yes, new laptops can be short on USB ports.)
You must have brutal children. You should probably keep them away from electric appliances too. 
I have never broken a headphone jack. Are you talking about physically breaking them or just an internal thing where it stops working?
I’ve said this in other threads but I still wonder if having “dope” in the name of the board makes the Sun-Times keep us at arms length. I just can’t see them sending out a tweet every few months about “joining this great message board, The Straight Dope!” I think it’s already pretty obvious that the board doesn’t have great name recognition. I would have no problem changing the board name if it meant a little free advertising from the Sun-Times. I don’t even care if they want to rename it The Talk To Cecil Adams message board. The Sun-Times can reach a lot more people in one tweet than all the users put together. Unless some of you are holding out on us and are really famous.
There is – you can reset the device so it forgets all previous bluetooth connections. Most modern BT devices will pair with multiple devices at once.
I have very… high energy … children. Runs in the family.
Hmm. I have three Bluetooth devices. Well, plus the car, i guess. The car is the only one that can pair with “multiple” devices at once. The other three are headsets, and one of them can pair with two devices, and the other two only with one.
All were purchased fairly recently, and none was a cheapie device.
OK. This isn’t happening now.
Add me to the people who’ve never broken a headphone jack.
I’m kinda surprised that kids who are energetic enough to wreck multiple headphone jacks aren’t also constantly losing their wireless headphones. I’ve never seen a broken headphone jack, but lost ear buds - individual or still in their charging case - are a regular find when I’m out and about.
I put one pair of wireless Beats earbuds through the wash and sat on a pair Bose… Those losses dwarf my life time expenditure on wired earbuds.
I’ve found earbuds in a taxi, an Uber, two restaurants and 2 or 3 times on walking/biking paths. too bad they don’t have built in GPS so you can track down your lost ones.
They kinda do. If you have Turn My Device turned on for them, they should give you the rough location of them them the last time they were connected to your phone. However that only works for a set amount of time (and that time is different depending on if they’re in or out of the case). So the person that lost them on their run and noticed it when they got home can probably find it (if you leave it there), but the person who didn’t notice for a week might not be so lucky.
I did not know that. Damn! Here I thought I came up with a new moneymaking scheme. Back to the drawing board.
Oh well, I suppose he could get a Bluetooth set. I’ve been using them for years and I don’t ever want to go back to wired headsets.
I was remembering back in the old days, having the board go down (with my half-finished missive unsaved). And all I could do was keep checking back…
So I came to ATMB to start a thread titled: “Discourse is SO much better than the old software” (DecrepitHamsters2.0?).
And here’s this thread, so I don’t have to.
Unrelated, but I’m surprised at that links in pre-discourse threads have counts next to them. I didn’t know vB kept stats on that.
Considering that, I assume, there was no option to display them (an assumption I’m making because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a vB forum with the counts displayed) I’m surprised it kept a count of them.
I used to watch the counts on my old vbulletin forum. I don’t recall doing that here, but i did on another one.
It’s still terribly unresponsive on my Android phone.
How old is your phone? Qualcomm is about 5 years behind Apple on performance, unfortunately. I wish there were more hardware alternatives for Android… at least Google is finally making their own SoCs for the Pixel phones, at last.
About a year, running a Snapdragon 730, 6 GB RAM, and Android 10. Dropdowns are slow and unreliable and the site has a tendency to load links I didn’t visually click on, like the display and content don’t match.
I’m feeling quite positively about Discourse today, now that we have mouse-over text for topics. I loved that feature of vBulletin and missed it for the months it’s been absent here. (Or at least absent for me–perhaps I had failed to do something that would have activated it.)
Mouseover to preview topic content has been working for me from the very day this board migrated to Discourse. I’m using the Discourse-classic theme on Chrome and Windows 10.
Others have reported that if touchscreen is enabled on your device, or if you’re using the Sam’s Simple Theme, then mouseover preview doesn’t work.
A couple of the themes were updated recently. This might explain why mouseover is now working for some.
I don’t know what changes were made to the themes. All I know is that they were updated.