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The fascinating thing about this thread is its contrast to other technical discussions on HN. A website is broken? Somebody digs up which stack it's running, s
by ganafagol 6y ago
The fascinating thing about this thread is its contrast to other technical discussions on HN.
A website is broken? Somebody digs up which stack it's running, suggests a config change and the discussion evolves around that. Some Rust thing is weird? People discuss fixes, patterns, some code example. Fabrice Bellard made a new magic thing? People celebrate with links, their experiences and cool own Show HN things.
But here? "I bought $consumer_device, it sucks" .. "Yeah I can't believe latency is still not fixed." .. "Oh man when my wife comes home $weird_device connects to her car". That's how my aunts discuss technology. Guys, this is Hacker News, why is the deepest we are actually talking hacking here just the mention of different bluetooth profiles?
Is this a sign of how closed and proprietary all bluetooth stacks are so that even technically skilled people can only conclude that it sucks and move on? Otherwise I'd have expected people to already have suggestions for fixes. This is a very sad state of affairs..
- rusk 6y agoI think so, yes. Compare this with IEEE and GSM stuff. Something has gone on with the Bluetooth process that makes it seemingly impossible to break out of the proprietary space.