This bastard of an app manages to expose too much of the underlying processes and logic, of which I don’t care, in the utterly uninformative format. The OP forgot to mention that upon first pairing my headphones, I have to fend off three different notifications about ‘auth requests’, that provide me with no explanation what happens if I do or don’t satisfy said requests. These also reappear after the headphones disconnect for some inexplicable reason, until I give up on learning further details and click ‘always auth’. Which seems to help with the disconnections. Apparently some audio profiles are also occasionally unavailable unless I appease the blue fucker with ‘always auth’.
Sometimes the headphones fail to connect, and all I get is some cryptic error message, with the only understandable word being ‘timeout’.
The tray menu has a shitload of items which I never need, and then always lists devices to which I can reconnect, even when they’re already connected and have separate (and dynamic) menu items to disconnect from them. Plus each device is listed like they have titles of nobility, something like ‘audio and input profiles on HeadphonesModel’.
The matter of wonder is that I never needed this ‘auth’ thing or the ‘trust’ thing in Windows, Mac, or Android, and never had recurring disconnection problems, before this experience. I just paired a device and then clicked ‘connect’ or ‘disconnect’ and went about my business. In fact, I was baffled by how people seem to always have some issues, devices connecting randomly, etc.
Even Bluetooth range seems to have dropped compared to other platforms. My phone can reach the headphones over a large apartment, while laptop loses them if I walk behind a wall.
Exactly! Why did two of the icons get icon+text label status, while the others got just icon status?!
Either standardized on icon + text label, or just icon, or just text.
We stopped using pictogram representations of concepts 2000 years ago and pivoted to symbols representing speech sounds, why are we regressing to pictograms again?
Ngl I really want to know what the tick icon actually does now.
If you hover on it (without clicking, resist the temptation) it says it is for “Mark/unmark this device as trusted”.
Which in turn doesn’t quite explain what happens. For me, the relevant difference was that ‘trusted’ devices autoconnect.
Well there’s “trusting” a device, “pairing” with a device and “connecting” to a device. Which need to be done in that order
Which makes it even more confusing what the button does
This bastard of an app manages to expose too much of the underlying processes and logic, of which I don’t care, in the utterly uninformative format. The OP forgot to mention that upon first pairing my headphones, I have to fend off three different notifications about ‘auth requests’, that provide me with no explanation what happens if I do or don’t satisfy said requests. These also reappear after the headphones disconnect for some inexplicable reason, until I give up on learning further details and click ‘always auth’. Which seems to help with the disconnections. Apparently some audio profiles are also occasionally unavailable unless I appease the blue fucker with ‘always auth’.
Sometimes the headphones fail to connect, and all I get is some cryptic error message, with the only understandable word being ‘timeout’.
The tray menu has a shitload of items which I never need, and then always lists devices to which I can reconnect, even when they’re already connected and have separate (and dynamic) menu items to disconnect from them. Plus each device is listed like they have titles of nobility, something like ‘audio and input profiles on HeadphonesModel’.
Lmfao sounds like Bluetooth alright
The matter of wonder is that I never needed this ‘auth’ thing or the ‘trust’ thing in Windows, Mac, or Android, and never had recurring disconnection problems, before this experience. I just paired a device and then clicked ‘connect’ or ‘disconnect’ and went about my business. In fact, I was baffled by how people seem to always have some issues, devices connecting randomly, etc.
Even Bluetooth range seems to have dropped compared to other platforms. My phone can reach the headphones over a large apartment, while laptop loses them if I walk behind a wall.
Alright, do not trust device. Guess what that mf autoconnects anyways!
Afair it pairs the selected bluetooth device. It will then enable the button left to it, to add the selected and connected device as trusted.
My assumption for the key icon was something to do with PINs/passkeys, which kind of reinforces OP’s point.
Exactly! Why did two of the icons get icon+text label status, while the others got just icon status?!
Either standardized on icon + text label, or just icon, or just text.
We stopped using pictogram representations of concepts 2000 years ago and pivoted to symbols representing speech sounds, why are we regressing to pictograms again?