Exameter

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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

one of the things that keeps me from using Bluetooth for peripherals like mouse and keyboard is that it's bad and doesn't work well. If they improved on that problem I would probably use them


ecn
@ecn

although i disagree with him on quite a few things, Wade from dankpods really summed up bluetooth quite well: it introduces a new way for the computer to fight you when you want to do something.

you plug a 3.5mm headphone into a computer it works. no questions. any problems that might happen would certainly happen with bluetooth as well, but using bluetooth introduces approximately 8.9 trillion more things that can go wrong.

same goes for usb keyboards and mice. your OS has to be catastrophically fucked up to not get the HID interface right. it just fucking works. bluetooth adds so many more ways where it doesn't work, and you aren't told why.


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Getting bluetooth audio devices that don't have a whole second of delay feels like winning the lottery. I have bluetooth earbuds that have nasty unusable delay, but bluetooth over-ear headphones that have basically none. Both Sony, released in the same year. No idea how or why they got it so different between the two

I have a Bluetooth Lenovo mouse that randomly crashes and resets instead of left clicking and I was so pissed off I got a USB Lenovo mouse that also randomly doesn't left click. I think I get why people preferred IBM's Thinkpad. You could say it clicked.

My Mx Master 2S has been pretty darn good. Its BTLE is fast at connecting/switching hosts, and its latency is acceptable. Bluetooth Classic was hoooorible for mice, and it is sometimes acceptable for keyboards. I think Logitech finally just came out with a BTLE keyboard, in the YOOL 2003Q3.

Gosh I wish that some (any) BT stack would treat a lack of communication with a keyboard as meaning "no we should not start autorepeeeeeeeeating keys yet".

Yeahhhhhhh lmao just the other day my Bluetooth controller decided to start re-enumerating ITSELF every five seconds, so not only can I not use, add, or remove Bluetooth devices, but my device manager would constantly refresh in an infinite loop until I managed to right-click on the bastard fast enough and disable him. Now I just… don’t have Bluetooth.

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