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Re:My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me... by romwell on Saturday December 18, 2021 @03:07AM (#29602730)
>Nothing is perfectly safe. People should deal with it, and remember that they don't live in a fairy tale.

Including the business of selling self-exploding headphones.

Corporations should deal with it, and remember that they don't live in a fairy tale where they can pull off shit like that off without consequence.

Can't make safe headphones? Leave it to someone who can. Free market or something.

(In case you're not getting it, it's not about living in fairy tales, it's about increasing the cost of failure to corporations to a high enough point that they will put some money into safety instead of pocketing it.)

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Re:My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me... by fastball on Saturday December 18, 2021 @03:23AM (#29602817)
How exactly would you develop headphones that are hardened against high energy particles from space?

NASA has a hard time doing this for their vehicles that are intended to be in deep space.

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Re:My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me... by nine_k on Saturday December 18, 2021 @04:30AM (#29603141)
A better design could be such that remains safe (even if functionally degraded) when hit with a burst of cosmic rays.

Whether it can be done within the constraints of mass, volume, and expense that keep the headphones competitive is another (hard) question.

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