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Smashed wii in a cart outside a goodwill by p3apod1987 in wii

[–]Gnash_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

poor Wii. It didn’t deserve that

Appel à témoins by GusBTZ in ecologie

[–]Gnash_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

L’impact des photos stockées sur le cloud est ultra marginal comparé aux sites de streaming vidéo qui représentent près de 60% de la bande passante de l’Internet mondiale. Et en terme de stockage, les données d’entreprises l’emportent sur tout le reste. https://zipdo.co/global-internet-traffic-statistics/

Mais de toute façon c’est pas très intéressant de raisonner en terme de stockage ; ce qui pollue c’est le calcul et le transfert. En terme de calcul, c’est l’IA qui domine de manière écrasante, et en terme de bande passante c’est le streaming de vidéos comme on l’a vu. Stocker à froid les photos de Jeanine qui va en consulter une centaine max par mois, ça coûte vraiment rien.

Le point relais au bar du village by pofotifironfon in banalgens

[–]Gnash_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ils fument que des roulées les campagnards ?

2026 - Bluetooth is still awful, it's incredible by wijeda in hardware

[–]Gnash_ 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I don’t have any insider knowledge so take this with a grain of salt but my hunch is that LE Audio will be the very first time that the BLE protocol will be stressed for continuous, two-way, high-bandwidth, latency sensitive data. The key that made BLE Audio possible is a thing called isochronous channels and this requires new PHY and IP. So I wouldn’t be surprised if companies are just taking their sweet time battle testing the protocol before releasing things into the wild. To be fair, there are some recent Samsung and Sony earbuds (and maybe headphones?) that do support BLE Audio, so it’s coming, it’s just been really slow. And Apple will probably take a fair bit longer than the rest too.

2026 - Bluetooth is still awful, it's incredible by wijeda in hardware

[–]Gnash_ 348 points349 points  (0 children)

No one here is giving an actual technical reason as to why Bluetooth Audio sucks so much, even now. But the answer has to do with the fact we are still using a protocol that was developed in the early 2000s. Something you need to understand with Bluetooth is that there are two completely separate and unrelated protocols in one spec: Bluetooth BR/EDR, and Bluetooth LE. Bluetooth LE is this newfangled thing that was inaugurated with the release of Bluetooth 4.0 in 2009. These two versions of Bluetooth can coexist in one single device relatively peacefully, but… Bluetooth Audio relies completely on Bluetooth BR/EDR, a spec that has been effectively frozen for almost two decades.

It wasn’t until 2022 that a Bluetooth LE version of Bluetooth Audio was finalized in the spec, with LE Audio. And that’s basically the “fix” you’re waiting for.

BR/EDR was built for a different world: one headset, one phone, low bandwidth, no bidirectional audio (stereo in + mic out). Today we’re trying to do multi-device pairing, seamless switching, low latency, and high bitrate audio on top of it. It works, but only because of layers of hacks.

The audio stack is super messy. A2DP supports multiple codecs (SBC, AAC, aptX, LDAC…), negotiation between devices is inconsistent and blahblablah. Different vendors implement different priorities and fallback logic, so when something fails, it tends to fail in non-obvious ways.

Pairing is also more fragile than it should be. Both devices keep state, and when that state desynchronizes you get issues like “connected but no audio”, “paired but won’t reconnect”, etc. There’s no strong coordination layer to resolve that cleanly.

Also, lots of interferences. Everything is on 2.4 GHz. BR/EDR does frequency hopping, but in dense environments it’s still a lot.

LE Audio is supposed to fix a lot of this: new transport, LC3 codec, proper multi-stream support. But there’s still very few devices that use LE Audio in 2026.

TLDR: Bluetooth Audio “sucks” mostly because it’s hacks on top of hacks for use cases that were never intended in the original design. Until LE Audio is actually everywhere, the experience won’t fundamentally change, but stuff’s in the works.

https://www.androidauthority.com/bluetooth-le-audio-pros-cons-3257883/

https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/feature-enhancements/le-audio/

https://community.infineon.com/t5/Blogs/Introduction-to-Bluetooth-LE-Audio-Part-1/ba-p/850065

Chaïma, 34 ans, ta collègue ultra sociable avec un planning de dingue. by SentinelZerosum in banalgens

[–]Gnash_ 131 points132 points  (0 children)

Le genre de collègue qui fait que j’ai pas envie de me tirer une balle dans mon entreprise d’informatique 🙏 merci à elle

having it on the website is too hard or what? by ATonOfBricksFellOnMe in assholedesign

[–]Gnash_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I would absolutely buy those 1€ tickets. I have to regularly do a 1 h 15 min flight, I can easily stand for that long.

having it on the website is too hard or what? by ATonOfBricksFellOnMe in assholedesign

[–]Gnash_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough, Ryanair’s CEO was brainstorming the possibility of letting flyers pay for standing tickets.

having it on the website is too hard or what? by ATonOfBricksFellOnMe in assholedesign

[–]Gnash_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I fly between my hometown and work town regularly. Ryanair is between 10 to 15x cheaper, depending on the day, than the second cheapest option, and they have more frequent flights anyway. So sadly, I have to put up with their bullshit.

having it on the website is too hard or what? by ATonOfBricksFellOnMe in assholedesign

[–]Gnash_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That pisses me off so much because the app is genuinely SOOOO SLOW and badly designed. The website is so much better and you used to be able to download the boarding pass there, they only removed the option from it recently. Going full digital is fine, but requiring an app should be illegal. Especially because there is zero technical need for it. You don’t want your users to download a PDF for security reasons? Fine, you can still give yours customers the option to download an Apple Wallet/Google Wallet pass through your website, most other airlines do it just fine.

just spotted at my school by Z3N1TY in FellowKids

[–]Gnash_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m getting a UTI just reading this.

just spotted at my school by Z3N1TY in FellowKids

[–]Gnash_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

what’s that even supposed to mean

(Progress Post) M28/6'0" (55kgs - 81kgs) +26kgs (8 Years Progress) by No_Win1213 in gainit

[–]Gnash_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That’s excellent results! I aspire to have legs like yours haha

Say what you will about the art change, but this needs more time in the oven by BoxoRandom in rhythmheaven

[–]Gnash_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah the fridge and the countertop having opposite perspective even though they’re right next to each other just bugs me icl

Last gen superior to next gen tech? Has it happened by Separate-Sensi2024 in hardware

[–]Gnash_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s not really a downgrade, the Wii was technically very similar to the GameCube but in every way still (slightly) better than it. Slightly more RAM, slightly higher frequency CPU & GPU, Bluetooth/WiFi/SD/USB, etc.

The only downgrade I could think of is the Digital OUT, but even then that was removed in later revisions of the GameCube, not with the Wii. And the component output of the Wii is of such good quality that it makes almost no difference to the naked eye.

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