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United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Basically earbuds, but if someone uses the acronym outside the context of stage or studio work, they are trying to tell everyone that they only use earbuds that are qUaLitY

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The shape is significantly different than traditional earbuds, they generally isolate sound better, and they almost always have a removable cable.

You can get really cheap ones, but the name actually does tell you stuff.

[–] Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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"

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

IDK. Earbuds are a different thing. I call them IEMs because that's what they are.🤷🏼‍♀️

[–] 01011@monero.town 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

P.S. I use Void. :p

[–] Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 0 points 5 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 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

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