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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  not just that. with a jack, you can use your phone as a perfect mic for your PC. its also better in terms of privacy as you don’t blast “IM HERE” signals that every other shop has a tracking device for logging them. I would guess majority of bluetooth audio devices don’t even support mac address randomization

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would guess majority of bluetooth audio devices don’t even support mac address randomization

    Wouldn’t that be a nightmare for pairing? The device wakes and tries to connect to the last device it was paired to, only to find unknown vendors

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      mac randomization is a defined thing in the BLE standard (afaik bluetooth classic does not have it, but maybe that changed in BT 5.1?). It’s not truly random, it involves cryptography so that paired devices can recognize each other in the end

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ah interesting, thanks for context

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I feel like latency only matters if you’re realtime gaming. In any other situation the video just syncs to the audio.

  As for quality AptX-HD is decent for low bitrates even at 24-bit, and LDAC remains excellent for anything higher.
  Unless you’re listening to high-res FLAC (in which case, god help your earphone impedance when listening to normal songs), I doubt the loss is audible

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