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.
6.14, Mint. Disconnections don’t seem to happen anymore, but I’m planning to look into whether Bluetooth power can be adjusted in Linux, or if congestion somehow gotten particularly bad lately by coincidence.
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.
Bizarre, what kernel and distro?
6.14, Mint. Disconnections don’t seem to happen anymore, but I’m planning to look into whether Bluetooth power can be adjusted in Linux, or if congestion somehow gotten particularly bad lately by coincidence.