is it just me who hasn’t ever had any bluetooth problems?
Bluetooth is like the SpongeBob “repeating then saying something different” meme where you go through the whole annoying pairing process, then it plays through the PC speaker anyway
So you don’t know how to select an audio device on you computer eh?
Why are you personally offended by Bluetooth being bad?
Bluetooth with mobile devices I’d agree. But my work pc hates Bluetooth devices. Such as refusing to use the correct audio channel with headphones, so I still use wired headphones.
I’ve always felt Windows could be temperament with Bluetooth, especially pre Windows 7. Like XP seemed to be a shitshow for Bluetooth.
Bluetooth audio has always been absolutely awful in windows as far as I recall. Bluetooth in general is super temperamental, I recall fighting with data loggers my first job out of uni that only connected via Bluetooth. Older ones were serial and were actually reliable.
Bluetooth reliability by OS
Android > Ubuntu > iOS (because of the stupid automatic turn back on anti-feature) > Windows > Linux Lite (possibly due to 2009 hardware?)
For real Bluetooth is near flawless in Debian and Mint from my experience, mint is on a 2013 laptop too with no issues to modern speakers.
Personally I prefer hard wire for audio where possible but it’s really convenient for a garage speaker and kitchen speaker
I’ve had bad results on Mac OSX as well.
It’s partly a timing thing, and maybe that puts the issues in the apps. If I am using my headset, it also works in things like Teams and Slack. However audio doesn’t want to switch if I turn in the headset in the app. Even worse, if I turn the headset on right before launching a call. It’s better now that I turn in the headset, then do a slow count to ten before starting a call, but still not reliable
I hate everything wireless when it comes to PC peripherals. They just randomly stop working or have a weird, noticeable lag. I have a 3 bucks WLAN adapter on my RPi that surprisingly works OK, but that’s it.
Bluetooth gives me the same sensation as a stove with faulty knobs. It’s like there’s a veil between me and the machine.
Quite possibly. I don’t think I’ve ever had any Bluetooth device work without hiccups. My old earbuds used to disconnect or lose pairing all the time. A couple of game controllers I have only worked intermittently for years. My phone is always losing connection in our car. I’ve ironed out some of the problems, but I’ve never had Bluetooth just work for me.
Please tell me how Bluetooth isn’t useful?
In a sound receiver? A lot! In a toothbrush? FML!
Probably, but if you want to improve your dental health, maybe some people find it useful to collect data.
You can make the same case for a lot of personal data collection. A lot of it just seems silly excessive and pointless, but you’ll always find someone who wants to use the data somehow.
My case of silly excess is notifications. I want all sorts of appliances to be able to notify me of current status and completion, probably including a rice cooker. One of my shortcut meals is chicken strips/breasts over rice: I can fill the rice cooker and air fryer, then go do something else for 20 minutes or so. How do I know when they’re done? It would be nice if it could tell me, then I don’t have to think about it or pay attention to it
Hey! Bluetooth is more useful than AI.
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AI isn’t a product for consumers, its a product for investors. If somewhere down the line a consumer benefits in some way, that’s just a side effect.
Think about the ways that information tech has revolutionized our ability to do things. It’s allowed us to do math, produce and distribute news and entertainment, communicate with each other, make our voices heard, organize movements, and create and access pornography at rates and in ways that humanity could only have dreamed of only a few decades ago.
Now consider that AI is first and foremost a technology predicated on reappropriating and stealing credit for another person’s legitimate creative work.
Now imagine how much of humanity’s history has had that kind of exploitation at the forefront of its worst moments, and consider what might lie ahead with those kind of impulses being given the rocket fuel of advanced information technology.
Reminds me of the “mineshaft gap” speech at the end of Dr. Strangelove.
This reminds me I’m into season 5 of Burn Notice and Sam said at one point, “I’m on Bluetooth if you need me”. It was a weird reminder that once upon a time people were paid to advertise just… Bluetooth, because that’s a brand name. These days it’s just everywhere.
The product placements in that show are not exactly subtle. Excellent show though, I did not expect it to hold up so well.
I did a rewatch not too long ago. Yeah the paid advertising is a bit cringe now but the show itself holds up very well.
You sure they didn’t mean it like “put it on a USB?” As in, they use the name of the connectivity technology to imply a single class of product that might use it?
That’s exactly what they meant, it’s just a weird way to say it that they only used because the consortium payed them to
Edit: extra word removed
I am currently in season 6 and also laughed about that line. Still a good show (although the b-roll scenes are also often quite cringe these days)
Didn’t they say “bing it” at one point CSI or something
Apparently that was Hawaii 5-0. My favourite CSI moment though was the huge ad for Microsoft Photosynth
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So. You would have to be what 5 meters max to talk to him? What does that even mean?
Boomers learned what Bluetooth was because they started making AirPod-style single ear headsets for cell phones. Everyone called them “a Bluetooth”.
So if you said “I’m on Bluetooth” it means you’d have your big clunky EarPod on, ready to answer a call at a moments notice.
A former fucking spy wouldn’t be caught dead using early Bluetooth for sensitive conversations though (and probably not current BT either). Considering every other segment of that show is a “here’s a hack to show how fragile the house of cards of modern society is, and how spies just navigate through it with impunity”, it’s pretty funny they leaned into this one.
Well they use little bluetooth style earpieces all the time to talk to each other, but this one time he name-checks it very awkwardly. I think they just assume anybody listening would have to target their comms specifically, and most of the time they’re relying on obscurity. I don’t think it would make sense for most of their targets to listen out for every bluetooth dongle that enters the building or whatever.
They also don’t have government resources so they have to make do with what they can get their hands on, which is a running theme. One of the times he’s working for the government they specifically call out that his earpiece is so deep in his ear canal there’s no way anybody will overhear what’s being said to him.
It was Sam not Michael. That’s exactly the kind of dumb shit Sam would do.
That scene in Better Call Saul with the investment guy permanently on his BT earpiece was such a wave of nostalgia for me, used to see those everywhere in the 2000s with a little blue light on them flashing.
Or even like modern wifi. I saw a vacuum with wifi capabilities. Do I really need to check my vacuum battery level from my phone?
Yes? Maybe the battery was left uncharged, or used up, so you’re waiting to do more cleaning. Why shouldn’t you be able to check?
I have an automation in my Home Assistant setup to notify me when batteries need to be replaced or charged. Currently it’s only for the smart devices in that deployment, but yes. I want my home automation to keep track of all batteries, so I can see status at a glance and be reminded if one needs attention
Or i could just plug my vacuum in when I’m done with it.
I saw a Bluetooth toothbrush that send reports to your phone on how good you brushed your teeth, like wtf?!
My home assistant picked up my toothbrush, forgot it had that feature*
It does seem silly to me as well, but is it really any different from people who want personal data for their sleep habits or exercise habits?
It also send reports to they corporate overlords. Most probably anyway.
Oh I’m sure your health insurance would love to know the condition of your teeth to increase your rates.
Missed cleaning routine detected January 5, 2024: claim denied
TBH I use that to make sure my kids brush their teeth before the electronics get Internet in the morning.
Your internet is solar powered?
Or to make sure they learn hacking skills. Win or win!
EXACTLY! Hubby has one of those, that function got old pretty quickly.
Saw a “smart” steam ironing board.
I’ll call it smart when it will iron my shirts!
There are a few that do that but feel gimmicky. It looks like the upper half of a dummy and throws vapor to wrinkle out the shirt.
Yes, I’ve considered it in the past.
Those things have been around forever and work very well. For domestic use it’s probably only worth it if you have a lot of shirts.
Adding Bluetooth to a vacuum cleaner does make it suck more.
If you don’t pay your monthly vacuum fee, Hoover will turn it off remotely.
Time to wrap my vacuum in tin foil
Unlock more power for an extra $4.99/month*
*warranty period reduced by 1 week per use of MaxPower mode
Hahaha
There’s a real life example of this somewhere right?
Well, this is something that I actually used. I have a robo vacuum. I was preparing my home for some guests once, when I saw that the vacuum wasn’t charged fully (because it was mispositioned on its base). I put it to the right spot, let it charge for half an hour, started it and left to buy groceries.
At the store, I checked the app where I have my apartment mapped by the vacuum that shows its route and cleaning progress. And I saw that with the current charge, it will have to go back, charge and continue. So I set it from “max” power to “normal”, to let it at least finish the job.
It is a cool and useful thingThis was not an automated model of vacuum. Connection features for automated models makes sense.
Ah, ok, then yes. If it’s just an indicator on the vacuum against “indicator in an app + register + give us all your data+ “buy vacuum 2.0” notifications”, then fuck them
I’m still angry about my waterproof Bluetooth headphones i bought to do laps.
What are you angry about?
They don’t do laps.
😂
Waterproof bluetooth headphones are useless because Bluetooth doesn’t travel through water.
Mind you the photo on the front of the package showed someone doing laps, and there were built in clips to keep the phones in even with water resistance.
Everything worked great! They were well built.
Excepting the fact Bluetooth technology doesn’t penetrate water, making them as useful as glow-in-the-dark sunglasses.
Fuck i felt so stupid after finding that out.
I remember seeing a DankPods video about a rice cooker with quote-unquote “AI rice” technology. Spoiler alert: there is no AI in there.
So… it’s not even putting it in something where it’s not useful, it’s straight up false advertising.
No no, they mean “artificially interesting” rice
“Now that’s what I call rice”
-Tefal’s marketing team, I guess
They’ve been claiming things like rice cookers had AI for decades, so at least this isn’t part of the current AI hype.
Oh right.
a simple “if” “then” algorithm
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It’s usually an entirely mechanical timer with a spool or a simple sensor that shuts the heating when the water is gone. No coding required.
Imo, that’s coding, just analog LOL
“If” Sensor reached temperature. -“then” Cut power.
Disclaimer: I have ZERO coding knowledge of any kind.
It depends. If there is a component that evaluates the sensor status through some form of runtime and then regulates the temperature based on that, you could call it coding (I don’t think this is ever done since it has no practical use). Else, it’s just system architecture.
Of course, there is some overlap within those areas because they both rely on logic, but the latter would not be considered coding.
If you study CS, you will most likely have a course that gives you a basic idea about system architecture and if you study engineering, you will probably have to code some small thing or at least have a course on the basics. So yeah, not entirely distinct.
Give me Bluetooth rice or give me death
Bluetooth rice should be blue and also should make your teeth blue (because blue tooth, get it?)
I suck at comedy.
It is like electricity
If this wasn’t 4/20 posting this really needs an expansion to the thought
You are like electricity
Is it?
It might be
Okay I’ll bite. Where exactly has it not been useful? that you all have had the chance to interact least once.
Edit: Bruh, it’s a legit question. If you feel attacked by this neutral info gathering enough to downvote you have a sad, sad life.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/ This. 110% not useful
The porn hasn’t been very good. I can get around dudes and chicks with like fourteen fingers, no toes, and nipples that hover over their skin… but I draw the line at the dirty talk being “I’m glad I could help you with that.”
It’s useful for a lot of stuff but it’s been waaay over hyped, mostly by youtubers desperate for content. So I think a lot of people are having a counter-reaction to that.
Once everyone calms down and realise it’s not an automatic-do-everything-machine, they’ll appreciate the circumstances in which it actually is useful.
Bonus points: find the landing page for any tech startup from the last 12 months that doesn’t mention AI or LLMs
In customer service. If I see a bot I know there is a 95 % chance I won’t get the information I am looking for. If I could get the information online somewhere, I wouldn’t have contacted customer service in the first place! I just want to interact with another human being who’s able to understand my queries.
And judging from the prompts many customer service lines use, there are also a lot of people who call customer service for the simplest/dumbest reasons. Wouldn’t be the first dummies kept us from having nice things.
But I’ll 100% acknowledge that even with perfect customer service, 99% of companies will enshittify it with AI if it promises to save them money.
I’m gonna guess it’s purpose is to make you feel like you’re being helped. Rather than actually helping you.
Yeah, it is so frustrating trying to get a question answered only to get stuck in a loop.
And then finally find an email address to talk to and their only reply is to talk to the bot…
I was in an auto parts store yesterday and saw that you can buy a can of that stuff to fix your AC and the damn can has Bluetooth capabilities. So no, we’re still not done putting Bluetooth where it doesn’t need to be.
That sounds cool, I don’t have a smart home setup, but Bluetooth sounds kinda nice to me for changing the temperature on the thermostat in the house, car not so much. Now I do know many people who use Bluetooth to cast their phone calls to their hands free devices in cars, as well as to hook up those diagnostic tools and have the error codes go to your phone instead of buying a product that costs hundreds of dollars to have a screen you would only use for that one purpose.
Oh no, this was strictly for the can to refill your car’s air conditioner liquid…the name is drawing a blank for me what it’s called, exactly.
I’ve seen some of these cans have a digital display on them which I guess this Bluetooth is supposed to replace. But it’s still so weird to me especially because these cans are generally disposable.
Freon, or it used to be
That’s it, thank you!
This is so spot on. I use AI all the time, but the hype and “we should AI all the things” is ridiculous.
I blame it on bullshit jobs. Too many people have to come up with weekly nonsense busywork tasks just to justify themselves. Also the usual FOMO. “Guys, we can’t fall behind the competition on this!”
Yep. I have middle management above me gleefully cheering the fact that ChatGPT can write their reports for them now. Well guess what, it can write those reports for me, the actual person doing the real work, and you are now redundant.
As a person with a useless boss who does almost nothing and (of course) gets paid more than me, I like this take! Let AI report on workers and watch productivity (and profits) soar!
The less ya do, the more they pays ya. It’s so dumb.
As an architect whose job it is to persuade useless bosses to do things the right way or to prioritize their teams to, I love this idea. Let AI take over boss work. They would be so much easier to work with
Like many people, I use it like we used to use Google. Because Google (and most other search engines) suck now, thanks to all the SEO spam out there. My job requires me to be a “jack of all trades” (I am a duct taper with a bullshit job in David Graeber parlance). I have to cover myriad technical things. I usually know the high level way to do things, but I frequently need help with the specifics (rusty on the syntax, etc), so I use the free ChatGPT for that kind of thing. it’s been extremely helpful. I was also the first person to bring it to the attention of my boss ages ago when it first came onto the scene.
Rather predictably, my boss now acts like he discovered (borderline invented it) and is always nagging everyone to use it to get their work done faster.
AI has already put some people out of work and will continue to be disruptive. There will be a lot more layoffs coming, is my guess. And it doesn’t really matter if the AI is good or not. If the C-Suite thinks they can save money and get rid of “lazy workers” they will absolutely 100% do it. We’ve seen over and over again how customer service and product quality hardly even matter any more.
I appreciate your take on it: replace the useless middle manager whip-cracker types. Hopefully we see a lot of that…
My company did a big old round of AI layoffs and now it’s barely functional at all because it got rid of a bunch of people actually doing things and kept all of the loud idiots.
They should have asked their AI for guidance on layoffs, LoL
Or like the blockchain 5 years ago
Or like VR 10 years ago
Or like 3D 15 years ago
It is the hot new thing that you have to use for the VCs to fund your company and for investors to buy your stocks, regardless of the actual utility. AI does seem to have at least more possibilities of usage than those technologies, but it also have an incredibly higher possibility of misuse that is being completely ignored by these companies
It was always clear that VR, 3D, blockchain were fads. But AI is already useful as is. The hype may not be as high in the future but AI is here to stay.
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But how will we provide an enhanced, metaverse 3D AR blockchain-backed cavity reduction without an LLM?
VR is also around, it’s possibly the most popular it’s ever been. It’s still a small niche compared to its initial promise.
Linux on desktop is more popular than VR…
But that’s just because
200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024 is the year of the Linux desktop!By the news I’m seeing about windows and its new features that is bloated and restricting its users. That day is not long before its the year of linux desktop.
the news I’m seeing about windows and its new features that is bloated and restricting its users.
You sound like every Linux user for the last 30 years.
… I use Arch btw
Almost all my colleagues are using genAI every day, I don’t know anyone using VR regularly.
Nobody used blockchain besides scam artists and money laundering schemes. VR was a super niche toy and was not shoved into anything. 3D was… Okay you have a point with that one, but AI can actually be pretty useful where it’s actually useful.
Most people now use chat gpt to some extent voluntarily, without it being shoehorned into an otherwise unrelated product. My mom told me how she was using it to help her rewrite her resume just the other day. I agree that there’s a fad of it being forced into everything that doesn’t need it, but i think it’s here to stay.
Also, agree to disagree on it having an “incredibly higher possibility of misuse”. It’s just a tool to let people do things they want to do, whether their intentions are good or not.
Or like 4D 20 years ago
Or 5D 30 years ago
In all honesty, it seems like they’ve been trying to make 3D happen every ten to fifteen years since the 1950s. And they tried making VR a thing in the 80s and 90s, too until it went to sleep for a little while.
I remember wanting one of these so bad when they came out. I even got to play one at circuit City once time.
I played one at… I want to say Wal-mart (or maybe K-mart?). The demo station was on display for maybe a year, but it was never working except for one glorious time I got to play… uh, something, I think either tennis or the Wario platformer. Clearly the game didn’t stick in my head, but the overall experience was amazing.
