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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by sho_hn on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:03PM (#28405963)
> But it will not be enough if we close our eyes on the work yet to be done.

I very much agree with your sentiment, but I simply don't have any issues with BT headphones on Linux desktops specifically I could work on today.

Bluetooth is a very a complex set of standards - I work as a system architect for a well-known celestial car brand, and implementing Bluetooth and BLE is the bane of our existence; truly disastrous technology - and I'm sure things to improve are aplenty, though. In terms of desktop biz logic, the roll-out and maturation of the PipeWire stack is one ongoing effort to watch for.

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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by BiteCode_dev on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:08PM (#28406031)
Yes, and then you have Wifi, touchpads, graphic cards, web cams... It's amazing that we even have a working OS honestly.
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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by istingray on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:06PM (#28406011)
Thanks for saying this, it gets to the root of the problem being Bluetooth.

What should we support instead? Is there another wireless standard?

I've noticed there are models that use some kind of non-Bluetooth USB dongle for example.

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