ULPT: To eavesdrop on people around you, put in your earbuds/headphones and pretend to listen to music, but don't actually play any music. (lemm.ee)

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If you bop your head a little, they'll assume you're listening to music and speak more freely.

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[-] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yess. I love doing this and it always works!

[-] illegalargumentexc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

even better, I saw in another post that airpods have a live listen feature where you can use your phone as a microphone. Basically you put your phone to "charge" in another room and use your airpods to listen in on what the people in that room are saying.

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