We need physical audio kill switches

Re:We need physical audio kill switches by MereInterest on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:46PM (#24536793)

And even if there is a physical switch, it is not clear what that switch is doing. My bluetooth headset has a hardware on/off switch. However, when the switch is turned off, it plays a sound to say the words "power off". If it were a physical switch across the battery, then I would expect the power to be immediately cut, and it shouldn't have the power to say that the power has been cut.

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Re:We need physical audio kill switches by moe on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:00PM (#24536901)

But then how would you know it's really off!

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Re:We need physical audio kill switches by kempbellt on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:11PM (#24536997)

I sense sarcasm, but I'll answer anyway.

A power indicator light would do the trick...

But in all seriousness, your bluetooth headphones should have a sim card built in and be an IoT slave to the cloud. So that when you turn them off, they send a message to Alexa, Google, and Siri, so that all of your devices can tell you "YOUR HEADPHONES ARE NOW OFF" at the same time. Like a tiny choir of angels informing you of the new state of your device.

But of course, there will be one slow/older device that lags 0.3 seconds behind and says "HEADPHONES...OFF", completely out of sync with the rest, like a rebel.

Damnit, toilet! Get with the times...

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Re:We need physical audio kill switches by bitwize on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:14PM (#24537469)

𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ 𝕁𝔸ℂ𝕂𝔼𝕋 𝕀𝕊 ℕ𝕆𝕎 𝔻ℝ𝕐

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Re:We need physical audio kill switches by Shared404 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:35PM (#24537603)

This reminds me of that one dystopian text adventure game the verge put out a while ago.

The version on the original site now links to here:

https://adirobertson.itch.io/wake-word

for those who haven't played it yet.

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Re:We need physical audio kill switches by pessimizer on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:53PM (#24537745)

The way I've been able to learn that devices are off since the early 2000s is that the blindingly bright blue LED light is replaced by a blindingly bright red LED light.

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Re:We need physical audio kill switches by seventhtiger on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:34AM (#24540143)

I really hate those. When your house is dark and it's calm and all you see are little eyes of Sauron floating in the darkness. I've gone around my house with masking tape and covered every unnecessary visible light.

Google Wifi is one of the worst offenders. They might as well market it as a wifi-repeating lamp.

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Re:We need physical audio kill switches by whiskers on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:28AM (#24540745)

You can adjust the brightness of the light ring from the Google Wifi app (all the way down to "off"!).

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Re:We need physical audio kill switches by seventhtiger on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:12AM (#24541299)

Thank you. This helps a lot. I didn't think to look for it.

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