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[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 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.

[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean it's not a problem. I'm just letting you know that if you use a technical term instead of the colloquial one in a casual conversation on an unrelated topic, to me it reads less like "we can extrapolate" and more like "I'm using this word specifically because I want to extrapolate". Not bad per se, cuz idk maybe someone will figure out they love in-ears from this thread. But def that's my first interpretretation when i read something like iem in a post about airplanes.

Edit ps: I also love how everyone is responding to this with their distro 😂 optimal response

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