How is it after so many years #Linux still manages to totally fuck up the most basic and common use of #Bluetooth (audio)?
Every Bluetooth device I own connects to my Android phone without a hiccup. Every Bluetooth device I've tried (a subset of the first group) works without a hitch on the Windows machine at work.
But my main Linux box at home? About half of them don't work.
It should be a fucking embarrassment, but it seems the F/OSS crowd doesn't "grok" shame.
It's 2023; why can #bluetooth still not send a photo from my #android phone to the #apple macbook that it's paired with? This feels like such a 2010's problem, but no, I'm still emailing the file to myself like some kind of digital cave man.
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.
I requested my employer to purchase an APH Mantis for me (bluetooth keyboard with refreshable Braille). They are balking at the bluetooth because of security. It seems to me if they were really so concerned with bluetooth as a security risk, they wouldn’t have provided everyone in my office with laptops that have bluetooth but whatever.I know the Mantis can be purchased in government mode (bluetooth and wifi disabled by manufacturer) but I’m not interested in that because I have a specific use case for the bluetooth connectivity and connecting by USB drastically limits the usefulness of the device. Really all I want to know from you IT security peeps is what is the real security risk with bluetooth? I’m intending to argue I should be allowed to use bluetooth as a reasonable accomodation but I’d like to understand the security concern better. Please explain it to me like I’m 5. #Security#Blind#Bluetooth#ExplainItToMeLikeIm5
It's been a steep learning curve but it's cool that most of the stuff just works (TP-Link #Kasa and #Tapo, #Ikea Zigbee, #Philips#Hue (using the Hue Bridge, not directly connected to my Zigbee coordinator). Some stuff this uses the cloud (but can be used locally), other stuff takes out the cloud entirely. (1/2)
My mom tries to #bluetooth pair her smart watch and her phone. But every time she enters the correct validation code in her phone, the watch denies the #pairing.
her watch is a Suunto Peak 9 Pro
Smart phone is some Shift Phone 5 on Android <edit>8</edit>
On Sunday, I went on a technical adventure and ended up spending most of the day trying to get the audio from my phone to play from my home stereo speakers.
#Bluetooth.
🔊 Manche Geräte verbinden sich automatisch mit dem Handy.
📻 Manche nur nach Aufforderung.
🎧 Manche Geräte bleiben getrennt, wenn man die Verbindung trennt.
😭 Andere verbinden sich sofort wieder und man kann die Verbindung nur getrennt halten, indem man die Medienverwendung im Handy für das Gerät abschaltet.
❓Und am Ende die Frage: Warum kann man das nicht konfigurieren? 🤔
🆕 blog! “Review: Runner Diver2 Bone Conduction Swimming Headphones”
★★★★☆
The good folk at Nank (Naenka) have sent me their latest waterproof Bluetooth headphones to review. Wear 'em while you're in the shower, swimming, jogging, or just on an endless sea of Zoom calls about quarterly budgets. Unboxing Bone Conducting??! Yup! Rather than s…
ich suche eine #Bluetooth#Tastatur mit richtig lauten Klickertasten, langem Tastenhub und spürbarem Schalten. Gern volles Layout oder wenigstens Steuertasten zusätzlich zum Buchstabenfeld. Hat da jemand nen Tipp? #computer#Keyboard
That’s my final pair of Bose Frames stopped working. Absolutely dead for no apparent reason. I still have a pair of Anker Soundcore frames, but the sound quality isn’t as good as Bose. Still, the build quality and reliability of the Bose frames was their big downfall. #Bose#Anker#Bluetooth#AudioFrames
The new RedragonShop Eisa K686 Pro SE keyboard just arrived at my front door a few minutes ago.
This was sent to me as a review unit, so I'll be using it, checking it out and testing it over the next couple of weeks and then posting my review on the #AllThingsTech blog that you can view here:
Thanks to @Viss found a cool new Bluetooth snooping tool. Went hiking today, and boy, how much stuff you can see in town just from a standard Android phone. Urbanism Copenhagen in ear wireless earbuds... #Bluetooth
We need #openhardware with #bluetooth so we can link them it to #MyGNUHealth.
Currently we have @pine64eu smartwatch, but we'd love to integrate scales, glucometers, blood pressure monitors...
Just reply to this toot or send us a message if you know of any device. We'd love to test them!🤗 #GNU#GNUHealth#pinephone#PineTime