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Those little Zotac boxen are wonderful–I’ve just had no luck with the bluetooth support on Debian for them. >:(
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Who needs Bluetooth? Bluetooth doesn’t work on OpenBSD anyway. ;)
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Bluetooth doesn’t work on OpenBSD anyway. ;)
:P
I happen to have a bunch of bluetooth jam box little speakers I picked up for super cheap, as well as various exercise gear that all claims to be bluetooth compatible. I have the dream of being able to get everything talking together. :(
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Sometimes dreams come true, you known. Cheer up, sir. :)
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What’s that? ;)
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Wireless headphones rule. I can never go back. I frequently stand up and walk around while working, and keeping my headphones on throughout has been heavenly.
For anyone looking to get into wireless headphones, I highly recommend the Sony MDR-1000X. Top notch sound quality, noise cancelling, 20 hour battery life, compact carrying case, optional 3.5mm input for non-Bluetooth devices, and you can buy manufacturer refurbished on eBay for $200. That’s what I did, my set came indistinguishable from new. Same experience from several of my coworkers who tried mine and bought their own.
That’s a great price for quality headphones. I bought my Audio-Technica ATH-M50 for $150, and for $50 more my 1000X beats the M50 in comfort and sound quality (with noise cancelling). The noise cancelling alone is worth $50, even if you never use them wirelessly. Truly phenomenal product.
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I’m not a fan of wireless anything tbh (except wifi). I’ve always found the inconvenience isn’t worth it. For most peripherals (e.g. mouse, keyboard, headphones), I only ever use them within 3 ft of my desk. The occasional interference doesn’t add anything, and the batteries always seem to fail at the worst times.
With wired headphones you can interchange your Amp whenever you need to, and you use a standard connector with extremely wide support (except if you’re using a newer apple device). I try to avoid bluetooth in general because of its history of security problems.
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Thankfully, I don’t use any wireless (nor Bluetooth, nor WiFi) devices. Wires rule!
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Oh wait, you’re right, sometimes I use a 2G phone! That counts. I don’t use laptops these days, though.
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They’re something I always talk about when OpenBSD fans make disingenuous remarks about the relevance of wireless technology in general. I get it, OpenBSD devs weren’t satisfied with their implementation of Bluetooth, so they axed it out out of security and sanitary concerns. I just find the attitude of “nobody needs Bluetooth” rather annoying. It is actually preventing me from seriously considering OpenBSD as a desktop OS. Why? Because wireless headphones are goddamn amazing.
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Perhaps you could use a headphone jack to Bluetooth transmitter device? They look like they’re around £15 and seem to have good reviews.
Personally I listen to music ‘on’ my computer by keeping my AirPods connected to my iPhone and using Spotify on the laptop, remotely controlling Spotify on the phone. This works really well, rather surprisingly.
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Antoine, please excuse my trolling. I’m sincerely sorry. Wireless headphones are amazingly convenient, that’s true. OpenBSD doesn’t support Bluetooth, that’s also true. We may not like the combination of those facts, of course.
I really like all core features of OpenBSD: it’s simple, well documented, consistent, reliable, has sane defaults, etc. Obviously OS can’t do everything and stay as simple as it is. We all know that resources of the project are extremely limited.
What we can do about it? Contribute patches, sponsor the project, help with testing, etc. That’s the way it works for OpenBSD. A pretty fare and straightforward way, I’d say.
We always can (and should) use multiple systems for their best parts.
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Out of curiosity, what exactly is involved in getting a bluetooth stack to work on OpenBSD?
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I’m not OS developer… yet. :) We better ask an active developer. For example, Bryan Steele.
For context: https://mobile.twitter.com/canadianbryan/status/984785986780585985
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Can you tell me why your blog requires javascript to display the content? It’s extremely frustrating, it’s all there but post the initial blip the site just turns white with only the header remaining visible.
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The best way to combat this is to not answer the questions for password reset at all. Use a password manager, and when a company asks something like “what was the name of your favorite teacher” give an answer like “zod the destroyer 7899” and never mention or tell anyone about this. Even if someone knows your favorite teacher, it won’t help them.
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Unfortunately you do need to be a bit careful with this. It’s possible (however dumb) that these answers are stored in plaintext and then presented to the user either as-is (multiple choice) or partially obscured (complete this name).
If an attacker is trying to get through the reset process and are confronted with “What’s your mother’s maiden name? a) Jones, b) Smith or c) F32djsb/.$%” they might have better than 1-in-3 odds :-)
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I’m partial to being born somewhere like: Earth Sol System Orion Minor Galactic Arm Milky Way Galaxy
And my favorite pet sometimes has ended up being something like: Leeloominai ekatariba tchai ekbat de sebat
And favorite colors being Steve.
I just plug all that crap into my password manager so that all my random “copy something from an open webpage” answers don’t go away.
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I do this (except the answers are randomly generated) and it turns out it mostly doesn’t matter. I’ve had to call services that use them and talk to customer service representatives. They’ve asked me the questions, along with other identifying information, and I told them that I didn’t know the answer. All I said was that it was probably random junk. They just ignored it and continued to deal with my problem.
What’s even more interesting is that rep on the phone would admonish me for forgetting the answer, telling me that they ask these things for my own security. It didn’t seem to register, even after I mentioned it, that it obviously doesn’t since I just bypassed them.
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Not that you nor I can do anything about it here and now, but that practice should be heavily discouraged. The whole point of security questions is to answer stuff only I know. Which also makes 90% of the currently available choices (“Mother’s maiden name”, “First pet”, etc.) really poor choices. Allow me to make my own question and answer, and it should improve handily for some people, whereas people who fall back to the default questions are no worse off.
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At home: Filco Majestouch 2 with MX Blues
At work: Filco Majestouch Ninja with MX Browns (and O-Ring dampers), because I prefer my colleagues not to hate me.
I haven’t bought anything shiny in a little while though, so I’m eyeing up something a bit different like a Pok3r or and Ergodox-alike.
I have a FIlco Majestouch 2 (also with MX Blues) and after a few years of daily use it began suffering extreme keybounce. It’s unusable now due to chatter/key bounce that affects nearly all the common keys. I’ve given up on it but might disassemble it and see if a deep cleaning with distilled water helps.
Mine is coming up on 4 years old I think, and I’ve ad no issues at all. That said, it sounds like a fault and I’d try contacting the reseller or manufacturer to see if they have any suggestions. Mechanical Keyboards should last pretty much until the switch mechanisms give out, if not longer.
This was ordered (had to dig out the email archive) in mid-2010 and was used daily until late-2013 or 2014, based on other purchase dates. Meh. I’ll contact the original seller, elitekeyboards.com, but frankly I don’t have expectations because it’s nearly eight years old and they don’t carry that line any more.
I too have two Filco Majestouch - one at work and one at home, both Ninjas, with different switches! At home, the keyboard’s plugged into a Mac and has a problem with dropping keystrokes / being slow as I type in a browser (and sometimes elsewhere). I can’t find a fix so I’m likely to plug an Apple keyboard in instead :(
The only remappings I do are:
The post mentions ‘programming’ - I’m assuming this is referring to remapping. I did look for keyboards where I could record macros, but those that exist are very expensive.
Keystroke problem fixed - using a rear USB port instead of front panel!