Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by sho_hn on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:56AM (#28405862)

I've done nothing special to use Bluetooth headphones with my Linux computers (a Dell laptop, a Lenovo workstation and a Lenovo laptop, running either Fedora or Ubuntu) and I use a variety of them regularly:

- Samsung Galaxy Buds Live that came with my last smartphone

- Some fancy Jabra-brand headset we get from work

- My wife's Sennheiser Momentum Wireless when I don't bring my own

- Not headphones per-se, but in the office meeting rooms we have Logitech desk mics I connect to all the time

No config or installing additional software needed beyond pairing.

Based on my own samples the above makes me suspect "AirPods don't comply well with standards" or something along those lines.

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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by istingray on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:08PM (#28406034)

Does your mic work in the headphones?

These were Sony XM3 in particular. After installing a bunch of software through the CLI I got them to play sound.

But the mic never worked. I saw similar stories online of everyone just saying "stick with wired mics".

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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by sho_hn on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:37PM (#28406408)

Yep, mic works for me. My main mic is actually wired, too (a RODE NT-USB), but just for audio quality reasons. I use the Galaxy Buds Live for meetings when I'm in the living room because my wife needs our office room for something, and I use the Logitech desk mics in the office, and those work. I can't remember about the Jabra off-hand.

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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by istingray on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:22PM (#28408930)

Thanks I'll check those Galaxy Buds out.

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