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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a curse

It puts my brain to 150% processing and I just wanna listen to one conversation and aaaaaa

Even when I can't listen to the dozens of voices due to them being nearly inaudible it still enables the part of my brain to try to decode them, so about 75% is used to try to listen to words that I don't even wanna listen to

This is why ANC is heaven

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Oh man. Mine actually is able to listen and understand each conversation. My brain will not only listen but mentally join that conversation. Lord help me if a few people in earshot are having technical problems with their phones or computers. I will literally pull my phone out in the middle of dinner with a friend and start finding the solution for multiple people's problems while my friend is like WTF, you were just telling me about your day and abruptly stopped talking and went into your phone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

African National Congress is heaven?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I can't do noise cancelling because then I get in my head about not being aware of my surroundings, and what if I needed to hear something in order to not die? Hey, it's possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh cool. those bose headphones saved my ass when was forced to work in open cafeteria style tech offices