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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by x0x0 on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:13PM (#24591327)
Right, but my $400 bose headphones have a broken integration with my $2400 mbp. Swiping the volume controls on the headphones also moves the balance.

Conveniently, because macos is ass, it's nondeterministic whether the balance controls display in Sound Preferences to fix the balance issue. You just have to open and close the settings panel in the hopes that it will display.

I'm a software engineer and I don't even know where to begin to debug this idiocy.

Duolingo regularly freezes audio in chrome. Once this happens, no audio will play in chrome until you restart or kill "Utility: Audio Service" with the chrome task manager.

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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by julianlam on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:15AM (#24598578)
This is the second time in as many weeks I've read a complaint about Bose headphones. The first was that their Bluetooth was so janky the audio itself was delayed multiple seconds and out of sync with video playing on the device.

That blew my mind, my $20 Amazon-purchased Bluetooth earphones just work™ with no delay.

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