| ▲ | dijit 5 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
And everyone got mad at OpenBSD for refusing to develop bluetooth. It’s a messy standard and we shouldn’t be surprised that the race to the bottom has left some major gaps.. though Sony WH1000’s are premium tier hardware and they have no real excuses.. I always wondered how people could justify the growth of the bluetooth headphone market in such a way.. Everyone seems to use bluetooth headphones exclusively (in Sweden at least), I’m guilty of buying into it too (I own both Airpods Pro’s and the affected Sony WH1000-XM5) but part of me has always known that bluetooth is just hacks on hacks… I allowed myself to be persuaded due to popularity. Scary. I was also trying to debug bluetooth “glitching audio” issues and tried to figure out signal strength as the first troubleshooting step: I discovered that people don’t even expose signal strength anymore… the introspection into what’s happening extends literally nowhere, including not showing signal strength… truly, the whole thing is cursed and I’m shocked it works for the masses the way it does.. can you imagine not displaying wifi signal strength? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | stefan_ 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This is not a Bluetooth issue. The chip manufacturer Airoha just felt it acceptable to ship a wireless debug interface that allows reading the SoC memory with no authentication whatsoever, enabled in retail customer builds. They are just not a serious company (which is why their security email didn't work, either). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | amelius an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Honestly, can't we just ditch BT and send audio over WiFi? One thing less to worry about. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jorvi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> And everyone got mad at OpenBSD for refusing to develop bluetooth. Alright, so when is OpenBSD patching out USB support? Such a giant exploit vector. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | raverbashing 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sometimes plugging a cord is a minor inconvenience. But sometimes it's a large inconvenience Example: if I'm using my laptop for work but at a slightly longer distance (think, using external monitor/keyboard) then it gets annoying (cord has to hang from the connection, or it gets between you and the keyboard, etc) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pyvpx 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Some of us kept using OpenBSD (longer than they should’ve?) because of that and a few other related decisions. So who is everyone, in your meaning? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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