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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by lukeschlather on Sunday June 21, 2020 @11:53AM (#23592693)
Not an expert in this kind of low-level stuff, but bluetooth is mostly implemented in hardware. I don't imagine you could get a compact lightweight headset that can last 10 hours on a charge if it needed to run even something as lightweight as a C library. And obviously, you can forget something like Airpods.
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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by TickleSteve on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:56PM (#23595333)
No, bluetooth is pretty much entirely in software. I say that as someone who has worked on Bluetooth devices at CSR/Qualcomm. Embedded software quite routinely runs hours on batteries. Indeed, some (entirely software) devices, last many years.
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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by CyberDildonics on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:16PM (#23595046)
Are you basing this off of an assumption or do you have a source?
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