• Cosmos7349@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I used to be a stage and studio musician, and I still use customs outside of that context. I’m just saying that if I’m talking to someone about casual listening, there’s no way I’m specifying “IEMs” over “earbuds”. IMO same kind of energy as saying “I used my Arch desktop” when you could say “I used my computer”

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      7 months ago

      “IEMs” is shorter to type than “earbuds”. You mistake my laziness for something other than what it is.

      P.S.

      I use Void. :p

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        7 months ago

        😂 🤷 Ya that didn’t occur to me; prolly cuz I think I think I’ve only ever typed IEM when doing a search, so didn’t think about typing-length. But I still stand that that’s the vibe it gives off in casual conversation.

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      They’re IEMs, and earphones are a colloquialism. Nobody is stuck up if they call it an IEM, if someone doesn’t know we extrapolate for them. I don’t see the problem.

      I am an IEM enjoyer (used to own Softears but don’t need them anymore), and I use Debian.

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        7 months ago

        A true Debian user would never tell us that they use Debian. They would say they use Debian Testing’. BTW.