People, AirPods are awful. It’s something I’ve been saying for years. When Apple originally introduced the pricey accessories in 2016, I compared AirPods to tampons without strings, claiming that they lacked the critical component that allows you to find them when you need them. Over the years, I’ve held to my wired headphone sets with tenacity. (I say headphone sets, plural since I require two pairs, one for my laptop’s headphone jack and the other for my iPhone’s non-headphone jack. I frequently feel that people I can’t hear on Zoom discussions are on mute when, in fact, I’m wearing the wrong sort of earbuds. I’d give a damn; I’m not changing.)