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Real talk: ever since I put Windows and Linux on separate SSDs, rather than simply separate partitions, they haven't killed each others' bootloaders once. Best

Real talk: ever since I put Windows and Linux on separate SSDs, rather than simply separate partitions, they haven't killed each others' bootloaders once. Best $100 I ever spent. My second tip for solving incompetent software with redundant hardware: TOSLink -> 1Mii Bluetooth Transmitter to avoid the catastrophic linux bluetooth stack. It's brilliant. TOSLink = no buzzing from inadequate shielding next to digital lines (or "AI audio" noise floor massacre or popping or...) and no software bluetooth = OS can't screw up pairing and that OS switching can't screw up the pairing. I did this in a moment of rage after the Nth time dumping hours into yet another linux bluetooth issue only to find that someone had submitted a patch years ago but project management hadn't reviewed the patch for a year and then banned the person who submitted the patch for complaining that nobody was reviewing his patches >.<

ykonstant 3y ago
Any specifics about the second paragraph anecdote? It seems like a serious scandal.
- jjoonathan 3y ago
  Hmm doesn't look like I wrote it in my journal but yeah, it was pretty gross. The reason given for the ban was some swearing in the message, but to my intuition the profanity was pretty tame, well-deserved, and ultimately just an excuse. I do remember the bug: Bose headphones have a low quality mode and a high quality mode (low quality frees bandwidth for microphone and maybe latency), and the linux bluetooth stack defaulted to the low bandwidth mode so aggressively that even if you changed the script to set high bandwidth mode it would immediately set back. I have no idea if the bug is fixed because this happened in 2020 and I haven't thought about desktop bluetooth since 2020 because TOSLink->1Mii Bluetooth Transmitter solved all my problems with it.
- mschuster91 3y ago
  The sorry state of Bluetooth on Linux is well known at that point. Android had to roll their own stack because the standard BlueZ on Linux is a fucking pain.
sgtnoodle 3y ago
I have windows on a separate SSD, and grub still stops working whenever I update my motherboard firmware...
- jjoonathan 3y ago
  Condolences. I wish I had a second trick for you but I don't.
  - sgtnoodle 3y ago
    At least I can fix it from Windows, because it's just some uefi parameter that gets borked. I have the command in a text file on my desktop.
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ykonstant 3y ago

Any specifics about the second paragraph anecdote? It seems like a serious scandal.

jjoonathan 3y ago
Hmm doesn't look like I wrote it in my journal but yeah, it was pretty gross. The reason given for the ban was some swearing in the message, but to my intuition the profanity was pretty tame, well-deserved, and ultimately just an excuse. I do remember the bug: Bose headphones have a low quality mode and a high quality mode (low quality frees bandwidth for microphone and maybe latency), and the linux bluetooth stack defaulted to the low bandwidth mode so aggressively that even if you changed the script to set high bandwidth mode it would immediately set back. I have no idea if the bug is fixed because this happened in 2020 and I haven't thought about desktop bluetooth since 2020 because TOSLink->1Mii Bluetooth Transmitter solved all my problems with it.
mschuster91 3y ago
The sorry state of Bluetooth on Linux is well known at that point. Android had to roll their own stack because the standard BlueZ on Linux is a fucking pain.

sgtnoodle 3y ago

I have windows on a separate SSD, and grub still stops working whenever I update my motherboard firmware...

jjoonathan 3y ago
Condolences. I wish I had a second trick for you but I don't.
- sgtnoodle 3y ago
  At least I can fix it from Windows, because it's just some uefi parameter that gets borked. I have the command in a text file on my desktop.
- deleted 3y ago
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