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Re:OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in... by macNchz on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:33PM (#29770990)
I’ve encountered many of these as well and have always assumed this was somehow the result of trying to make everything “just work”, wherein providing detailed user feedback or error messages would be some kind of admission that it hadn’t “just worked”.
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Re:OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in... by spicybright on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:49PM (#29772938)
It either "just works" or "just doesn't work"
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Re:OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in... by GeekyBear on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:11PM (#29776543)
I've seen one of the Bluetooth guys from Google Glass say that it's perfectly normal in the industry to silently restart the Bluetooth stack before every connection attempt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26647981

I guess Apple should adopt that too, since toggling Airplane mode on and off is the usual fix for issues with services layered on top of Bluetooth?

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Re:OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in... by atian on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:00PM (#29790222)
Heh “should”
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