CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@jprjr @joeycastillo I need both the sticker and the emote, I love this!

@khm Other option to throw in the ring: Qudelix 5K BT/USB dongle amp + IEMs with foam tips. Now you've modularized the whole thing and can change the Bluetooth/battery half of the rig independently of the transducers. In theory, less e-waste, but IEMs are obviously... in your ears. Not for everyone, and this route doesn't give you ANC. (that said, my foam-tipped IEMs blocked out plenty of airplane+people noise this past weekend)

@khm At that price point I'd start considering B&W Px7 S3, Sennheiser HDB630, Bose QC Ultra 2, or Sony XM6 for better featuresets and less gimmicks (what's that external display thing on that M3?!).

I have XM6, they're fine and cancel **all** external noise, albeit really shallow cups (like most travel over-ear headphone cups tend to be). Px7 S3 uses physical buttons for track controls instead of the stupid touchpad thing Sony does, which is great. HDB630 comes with a USB-C to BT adapter that shows up as Just Another Soundcard, moving the Bluetooth codec fuckery to hardware-space instead of OS-space, for systems where that's useful (eg. OpenBSD, lacking any BT implementation).

@latte as long as the timespan is "any time in 2026" I can be your accountability buddy for Disco because I bought that some time in 2025 based on raving reviews and promptly never played a single minute of it, as is typical for my Steam library >_> but I'd like to!