Previously posted in mildly interesting a year ago, doesn’t qualify anymore: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18714104
Probably disintegrating, I don’t know. But now I’ll finally have to buy new ones. Currently there’s 6 oozing points in total. 3 are minor, one is now inactive (the 2024 pimple), one I taped over, but it’s starting to overflow, and one near the jack is major.
I now cannot plug them in without getting sticky residue everywhere. Also the rubber on the outside is starting to crumble a bit.
I am a cheapskate, but this may be their end.
Given that:
- The statue of Mother Mary cries;
- These earphones are weeping;
You are witnessing divine signals from heaven above, and can charge people money to make the holy trek to witness your hallowed earphones.
Its Jesus’s earwax!
If it’s anything like the Aliens movie, then it’s a droid.
If it’s leaking from the inside, it may be that the polymer never properly cured and is still liquid on the interior. You could try returning it as defective, or just shell out for a new cable
I think cancer treatment will be more costly than a new pair of earbuds or whatever your next cheap accessory that is leaking unknown chemicals.
That’s a Spotify Leak /s
This reminds me of the old Apple Macbook chargers where the cable was permanently attached to the charger itself. These cables became brittle and discolored from white to yelloy (they looked like they have been in a heavy smokers’ household when exposed to UV light, which is always). When I tried to fix the brittle cables with tape, it got worse and probably due to a chemical reaction between the material of the cable and the sticky glue of the tape they completely disintegrated.
Your headphones are beyond repair. It looks like they have been exposed to some chemicals. Did you at one point in time clean them with perhaps an aggressive cleaner (toilet/ household cleaner)? It could be possible that some cleaner got inside the cable through a micro-crack in the cables’ insulation and reacted with the copper inside.
You should replace them. The ooze is probably not healthy.
It’s that xxx site youbkeep visiting
It’s just going trough puberty
The door paint in my last flat did this if you hung damp clothes over them. But you could wipe it off at least.
what does it taste like
Like honey
You clearly left out the main thing anyone would need to troubleshoot this issue… what kind of music are you listening to. Obviously low quality music will wreck headphones no matter how good they are.
Music so touching, it brought the cable to tears.
Skrillex actually.
This happened to the outer rubbery (soft plastic) housing on my bike U lock. For like 10 years it was great, then one first-ride-of-spring I grab it, and it’s like the entire thing was dunked in a pot of honey.
Rubberized coating does that eventually, especially if the ambient humidity is high.
We live in a corrosive atmosphere.
When rubber and plastic run out of antioxidants they will disintegrate or turn in to a slime.
When using recycled plastics this is a real wild card. Levels can wary wildly from batch to batch, so even the manufacturers don’t really have a clue. Only occasionally tested minimum levels.
Pristine stuff can be used more for planned obsolesce.
The vital essence
I think it’s infected. You better take them to Dr. Dre.
Who?
Dr Who isn’t that kind of a doctor.
Ya’ll forgot about Dre!?!
Nowadays, everybody wants to talk
Like they got somethin to say
I wonder what the critical mass of people has to be, on average, for this to get through the chorus here.
But… nothing comes out when they move they lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
and motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre
mike jones.
Not a medical doctor. As such.
Bro just clean your ears bro
