I am on my 17th pair of AirPods because they are tiny and easy to lose.
@fesshole Just buy wired earphones for God's sake. It's 2025, y'all can stop pretending wireless is better.
@fesshole I can recommend Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II.
@fesshole I think this fesser has never heard of a find my app. mind you, it doesn't work well for air pods that are in their case any earlier than air pods 2nd gen, as there's no speaker in the first gen case. though if you drop an airpod, you can get it to play a loud sound and find it that way.
@fesshole Holy actual crap how much money do you have to throw out pointlessly? Also like someone else said the find my app exists for a very good reason
@fesshole are you Joe? We picked up "Joe's Airpods" at the airport and they're on the shelf (along with three other bluetooth pod sets we picked up and use around the house...)
@fesshole Trying to work out if you grew up middle class and/or may be neurodiverse. 🤷♂️ (My youngest sibling is both and rarely owns anything small longer than a month).
For contrast, I grew up as poor as dirt, neurotypical (AFAIK), and still have small items - pencils, bookmarks, paperclips (FFS), etc - from the 1970s/80s. Despite enjoying social mobility in adulthood (and not being tighter than a duck's butt).
@fesshole If you pay a bit more you can get ones that have a cable to stop you losing them.
(Yes, I took the bait)