I don't know about you, but when a TV show or movie makes a joke out of some device accidentally connecting to a #Bluetooth speaker, the lack of realism takes me right out of the moment. It's hard enough to connect to some of them on purpose.
@miki@MS26@jscholes A few days ago the audio on my phone stopped working, and I couldn't figure out why. Everything worked when I plugged in my earbuds, so I thought the speakers were broken. It turns out it just connected to my old AirPods for some reason. I think the same thing could very likely happen with a Bluetooth speaker too, because mine connects to my laptop automatically when it's on.
@Caoimhe@MS26@jscholes Yes, and this is very much a problem. I have had this happen multiple times, mostly due to my own stupidity. I tend to forget to turn off my headphones and then put them in my bag, which makes my phone unusable until I get somewhere where I can easily pull them out. If there's one issue i wish was fixed in mobile screen readers, this is it. Give me a quick gesture to redirect audio to the internal speaker for such emergencies. The only screen reader that actually handles this well is Commentary / Jeshuo for Android, and even that requires a bunch of ugly hacks.
@Caoimhe@miki@MS26 Sure. But in movies, it's sometimes a device connecting to a speaker that has never been paired before, while the speaker is already connectet to something else and playing audio so clearly not in pairing mode.
@jscholes@Caoimhe@MS26 Oh yeah. It's like with all the phone sound effects, which I don't think I've seen a single movie get right. The screen locked sound for an incoming notification, the "message received" sound when the phone is in somebody's pocket, an AMerican dial tone in Europe, a British dial tone in the US, 16kHZ on a cellphone in 2005, there's always something wrong there.
@jscholes@Caoimhe@MS26 True enough. Hearing an American dial tone in a Polish WW2 movie, played on state television, in celebration of some kind of national something something remembrance day, in a scene that happened in Berlin in the 1940s, was particularly odd though. I guess people are just lazy and love their sound libraries.
@miki@jscholes@Caoimhe@MS26 I've connected to a few FM transmitters from vehicles before and started playing music. I think I heard someone jamming out through the car window once actually so they liked my genre.
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