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Re:PulseAudio under the hood by hamax on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:57AM (#15312733)
> seem strictly worse in every way than wired.

The same as wifi, right? Strictly worse in every way. Except for the not needing wires way.

Re:PulseAudio under the hood by khedoros1 on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:45PM (#15316973)
Although...different use-cases there, for me. I've got a dozen audio sources, either connected to speakers (the TVs) or within a couple feet of me when I'm using it (phone, media player, tablet, laptop). So, a bunch of sources, a couple of which I might be listening to at once. All either in short enough distance for cords, or loud enough that it's moot.

Wifi: The internet comes from one (inconvenient) place in the home that I can't choose. I've got a couple of powerline ethernet adapters, but I've also got a lot of devices that handle wifi, but not ethernet. The choice is between using wifi or skipping the network connection. It's great as a last- (or only)-resort connection option, and it's usually sufficient, but then my uses for it are usually pretty tame anyhow.

Re:PulseAudio under the hood by bandrami on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:50AM (#15313235)
Wifi has encryption. Bluetooth means I'm broadcasting my audio stream to anybody who feels like snooping on me.
Re:PulseAudio under the hood by digi_owl on Friday September 22, 2017 @01:20PM (#15314022)
Not quite.

Bluetooth was originally encrypted, but gained the option of non-encrypted channels with version 1.1.

On top of that Bluetooth use frequency hopping.

Until recently there was no real hardware for scanning/sniffing Bluetooth traffic, at least not anything easily available compared to a wifi card in promiscuous mode.

Re:PulseAudio under the hood by zeveb on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:07AM (#15312834)
As a matter of fact, my desktop & my laptop are both wired, and I hate how flaky WiFi is on my phone & tablet. Just moving to different rooms in my (small house) does horrible things to my network connexion speed — but Ethernet keeps on chugging along.