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As someone who wants stuff like this to succeed, I must say you lost me at DDR4 and ~1" thick.
by totalhack 3y ago
As someone who wants stuff like this to succeed, I must say you lost me at DDR4 and ~1" thick.
- w0m 3y agoDVD R/W but no bluetooth on a modern laptop? It feels kind of like a joke...
- fullstop 3y agoPerhaps the available BT modules all required binary blobs?
- ansible 3y agoI'm sure they all do. Source: Used to work on Bluetooth consumer equipment
- fsflover 3y agohttps://ryf.fsf.org/categories/bluetooth-adapters https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/bluetooth-adapters
- creshal 3y agoThey do offer a BT dongle via USB, so clearly there's at least one. Why not have its chip on the mainboard? Using USB for soldered-on BT is fairly common.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoI don’t think I’ve ever used bluetooth… what are you using it for?
- Nextgrid 3y agoInput or audio peripherals.
- creshal 3y agoOn a good laptop, I would at most need it for audio (cable connectors break too easily when I'm working in a bus/train/airplane, no thanks). But since the devs can't count to three, I'll need an external mouse, and I don't trust that keyboard either. So that's three devices that are best solved with bluetooth, if you don't want connectors to break off inside the laptop at some point.
- w0m 3y agoMouse, Keyboard, headphones. Dongles work 'fine' - but that's not ideal on a modern device.
- fullstop 3y agoRight, but those usually require some sort of binary blob despite being USB. Look in /lib/firmware. My laptop has a Bluetooth adapter connected internally, made by Intel. # modinfo btintel filename: /lib/modules/6.1.30-1-lts/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btintel.ko.zst firmware: intel/ibt-12-16.ddc firmware: intel/ibt-12-16.sfi firmware: intel/ibt-11-5.ddc firmware: intel/ibt-11-5.sfi It still requires binary blobs to function.