Same. I can't find any Bluetooth headphones whose batteries don't die in 4 or 5 months anyway. Meanwhile my Moondrop wired headphones have been going strong for almost 3 years.

My sony earbuds lasted 5 years before I decided to replace the batteries in them, which cost me $20 and 30 min. I would hope other earbuds wouldnt die in only half a year

To be fair I kept buying models that cost $20 to $30 so maybe the higher end ones would last longer. That said, my Moondrops wired headphones cost the same but are way more reliable.

My old FM BT transmitter that let me connect to my car had a surprising range, bout about a 100ft in every direction which as I understand it they aren't supposed to be that strong. (Scosche brand from Best Buy)

Used to tune it to the popular country station and jam everyone around me from listening to that station, which made me happy. Couple times when there was a particularly loud or obnoxious driver...I definately didn't blast porn hub with my stereo off in my car..

Tangent.

One of my last concerts I went to was Meshuggah

Had a great time.

I think BLE is only required for the initial compromise (extracting the pairing key). After that the attack can be performed over classic BT, and can impersonate either part (headphones or phone) to the other.
It's still very targeted and sophisticated, so no reason to panic unless you have reasons to think someone with the resources could target you.
Regarding the attacks, they go way beyond eavesdropping calls, since BT headphones usually have access to contacts and smart assistants, that you can use to extract a lot more information

I am the sweaty balls man and this happens often

The compressor and normalize sound effect applied over and over again. From the montageparody era.

I occasionally visit it to find my bluetooth earbuds.

Why are your earbuds... in your pants

downvoted for that website's super illegal "pay us to not track you" policy

Namana naanaa, bum darum du da.. dadam da da!

my balls and my ears sweat at the same time

Oh, fair enough then

Well, if these devices required any sort of authentication (e.g. pairing) to free access to their ram and flash, we wouldn't be having this particular story..

Not all sites charge - yet.

You did WHAT with them?

They don't GO there....

Which ones? I have 1004, they got fucked in the washer

Mine are the WF1000XM3

I still have never heard noise cancellation as good as those ones. I have a couple other pairs of earbuds as well, one set for side sleeping, and one set for water. I like to listen to audiobooks in the shower and the IPX7 ones have held up great

This really makes me hate that we don’t have headphone jack anymore

LOL at the big debate I read just yesterday about how better wireless headphones are, and how useless jacks on phones are nowadays...

Gotta feel the bass