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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by dietr1ch on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:29PM (#47037718)
What forces devices to constantly stream data? You can batch updates and probably save power thanks to it.
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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by kccqzy on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:22PM (#47038303)
Because these BLE devices are so cheap that they don’t have storage. And BLE transmission is already very power efficient: the power consumption of BLE is probably the same order of magnitude as powering flash storage.
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