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How is it confusing? The top of the README explains it. > LibrePods allows you to use AirPods features that are exclusive to Apple devices. It implements the p
by KomoD 4mo ago
How is it confusing? The top of the README explains it.
> LibrePods allows you to use AirPods features that are exclusive to Apple devices. It implements the proprietary protocol used to exchange data between AirPods and Apple devices
And then has a table listing the features.
- Springtime 4mo agoI wasn't aware they operated as baseline Bluetooth headphones by default on other devices, so even having read the readme it wasn't obvious.
- hack1312 4mo agoHow else did you think they worked
- Springtime 4mo agoI assumed, like Apple's Airtags (which use Bluetooth LE), that they used some proprietary pairing that's incompatible with non-Apple devices.
- culi 4mo agoAirtags can be scanned with your non-Apple smartphone's NFC reader which gives you contact info for the owner. Beyond that, all tracker devices are proprietary. The Tile/Chipolo network only works with Tile/Chipolo; Samsung's SmartTag only works with the SmartThings app which is exclusive to Samsung phones; etc. I just don't think the comparison is apt
- usef- 4mo agoNew chipolos work in both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub. Most third-party tags seem to support multiple platforms now.
- lloeki 4mo agoWarning: many don't support both at the same time (setting up for one disables the other until reset)
- gambiting 4mo agoUgreen tags work with both Google's Find network and Apple's FindMy network.
- jorvi 4mo agoDo they work with the network or with the app? If it's the first, that seems like they would be a vastly superior offering to AirTags, especially outside America, where people aren't so Apple-crazy.
- gambiting 4mo agoI don't know, I have an android phone. I just know it says it's compatible with the airtag network on the box, so I suspect it's the first. Ugreen doesn't even have any specific app for these, so I assume it goes through the primary setup method.
- culi 3mo agoWell there you go. I guess its not so proprietary after all.
- marysol5 4mo agoLoads of 3rd party tags that work on the other networks though. That was the point they were making, not that they had some NFC extra-functionality
- culi 3mo agoWhat are some examples of 3rd party tags? I know the Find My network itself has been hacked around with for a 3rd party tag. I've always dreamed of an open-source tag that integrates with all the major networks so I can put a little tag on my cat's collar and track his travels.
- Epa095 4mo agoBut its still what he thought...
- Aurornis 4mo ago> How is it confusing? Judging by all of the other comments that assumed otherwise, a lot of people either weren’t reading the README or weren’t parsing what it was saying.
- bigiain 4mo ago:sigh: There's very little point having a discussion about something where other people can't even be bothered to properly read the link that was submitted - and even more frustrating when that link was literally a README file.
- haunter 4mo ago_A lot of times_ people comment based on the title alone. I think it’s more common than one would imagine.
- bigiain 4mo agoYeah. And that's sad. Recently, for the first time in over 15 years here, I've wished often for a "block user" function, so I can gradually weed those zero-effort zero-contributing users out. (If I didn't read HN across 4 or 5 different devices, I'd probably write a browser extension to allow me to do that...)
- DANmode 4mo agoHow would you handle replies? What happens if they’re the top or middle of a pivotal subthread?
- bigiain 4mo agoI think I'd "behead" subthreads at posts by blocked users, so their posts and any replies under them get hidden for me. I'm happy enough to lose followup discussion and/or arguments against anything a user who I've caught out not reading the actual post and replying - and been annoyed enough at too add them to my blocklist. I _might_ miss some interesting discussion that way, but I'm fine with that to be the cost of me avoiding getting irritated by annoying posters. (And the mood I'm in right now, I'd probably block top level posts by blocked users as well)