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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by duped on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:17PM (#48713220)
Basically all the annoying shit I have to handle with my AirPods is made up by how good of a product they are. I have nice headphones, speakers, studio and other microphones, etc for a bunch of use cases. AirPods are my workhorse. I haven't found anything as comfortable with as good a battery life and as good fidelity and as good price. The active noise cancelling is also very good.

And I'm an apple hater, in general.

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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by bel8 on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:03AM (#48715788)
Would you recommend those for someone with no Apple devices?

I'm thinking of gifting them to someone. But they are Android/Linux user.

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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by duped on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:12PM (#48721998)
No. Although I do use them on my Linux desktop I wouldn't recommend anyone use bluetooth on Linux regularly.
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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by itsnoone on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:56PM (#48722697)
But AirPods are the only wireless headphones with which you can use the mic without having to suffer from horrible audio playback and microphone quality because of Headset/Handsfree.
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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by duped on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:25PM (#48723145)
They suffer from that on both Linux and MacOS.
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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by itsnoone on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:12AM (#48881793)
Not Linux: librepods/#655
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Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem by soundnote on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:17PM (#48727044)
I've liked Sony, myself, at least before they shit the bed with firmware. They stayed on better, and had better noise canceling. The transparency was a bit metallic. AirPods in comparison rely a ton on a tight fit for noise canceling, but the transparency is magic. Sadly, I'm more of a noise canceling user.
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