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Cables have another advantage: it's much easier to switch devices, just plug it in, no more connecting and disconnecting and figuring out how that specific devi

by harha 6y ago

Cables have another advantage: it's much easier to switch devices, just plug it in, no more connecting and disconnecting and figuring out how that specific device has implemented pairing.

dewey 6y ago
At least the headphones I'm using Bose QC 35 can connect to 3 devices at the same time. If it's nicely supported it's not really an issue but as soon as I step away a few meters from the computer the connection starts to drop I'm better off with cables. Kinda odd that you even have to think about basic features like that these days.
- wongarsu 6y ago
  My Sony WH-1000XM4 only connects to 2 devices at once. That's mildly annoying since I would like to connect it to 4 (Phone, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop). It stays paired just fine, but I have to regularly go to the bluetooth settings of the device I want to listen to and press connect. On all but one of those devices that's more work than replugging a cable.
- dijit 6y ago
  Also using Bose QC 35’s, and only _today_ (oddly enough) I was getting incredibly annoyed at them for connecting to my phone and laptop (MacBook, in sleep mode, fwiw) and _not_ the Linux machine I had in front of me which was the “first profile” (the one that the device speaks about when powering on, “connecting to... <device name>“) It seems mine can only be connected to two devices, and gets a bit weird when the secondary device wants to make sound but the primary device is already making sounds. I have missed calls because of that.
- nucleardog 6y ago
  Mine do that and it's more an annoyance than anything. I'll throw them on to listen to a podcast while I'm cooking or something. But then they'll connect to my desktop as well. Depending on what it's doing that day, sometimes it connects in headset mode instead of headphone mode which means it has exclusive control of the headphones and I can't get my podcast to play for hell or high water. So instead I have to trek down to the basement, unlock my computer, disconnect the headphones from there, then get back to it.
kzrdude 6y ago
And no more computers fighting about who's going to have the mouse. And I found my Rpi using 50% cpu being stuck connecting by bluetooth to the digital piano.. for no reason. :)

by harha 6y ago

Cables have another advantage: it's much easier to switch devices, just plug it in, no more connecting and disconnecting and figuring out how that specific device has implemented pairing.

dewey 6y ago

At least the headphones I'm using Bose QC 35 can connect to 3 devices at the same time. If it's nicely supported it's not really an issue but as soon as I step away a few meters from the computer the connection starts to drop I'm better off with cables. Kinda odd that you even have to think about basic features like that these days.

wongarsu 6y ago
My Sony WH-1000XM4 only connects to 2 devices at once. That's mildly annoying since I would like to connect it to 4 (Phone, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop). It stays paired just fine, but I have to regularly go to the bluetooth settings of the device I want to listen to and press connect. On all but one of those devices that's more work than replugging a cable.
dijit 6y ago
Also using Bose QC 35’s, and only _today_ (oddly enough) I was getting incredibly annoyed at them for connecting to my phone and laptop (MacBook, in sleep mode, fwiw) and _not_ the Linux machine I had in front of me which was the “first profile” (the one that the device speaks about when powering on, “connecting to... <device name>“) It seems mine can only be connected to two devices, and gets a bit weird when the secondary device wants to make sound but the primary device is already making sounds. I have missed calls because of that.
nucleardog 6y ago
Mine do that and it's more an annoyance than anything. I'll throw them on to listen to a podcast while I'm cooking or something. But then they'll connect to my desktop as well. Depending on what it's doing that day, sometimes it connects in headset mode instead of headphone mode which means it has exclusive control of the headphones and I can't get my podcast to play for hell or high water. So instead I have to trek down to the basement, unlock my computer, disconnect the headphones from there, then get back to it.

kzrdude 6y ago

And no more computers fighting about who's going to have the mouse. And I found my Rpi using 50% cpu being stuck connecting by bluetooth to the digital piano.. for no reason. :)