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Cake day: March 7th, 2024
  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.nettoMemes@lemmy.ml•Bluetooth earphones won't connect and need manual connection again 🤬
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    1 month ago

    I’ve finally recently figured out these crazy Sony multi-point headphones that I paid way too much money for (back when I had the money to spend). My situation is probably niche, but maybe typing this out will help someone.

    The headphones can connect to multiple devices at the same time, so they’re usually connected to my work laptop and my phone.

    My laptop is a Linux host for a Windows VM, and in that configuration if I’m on a Teams call (Teams running on guest, headphones BT paired with host), something will time out and the audio will shut down after a period of time. To avoid that, I have to open the Sound Settings applet to the Recording tab on the guest for the duration of the call.

    (Through this process, I also learned that my headphones work in two modes: HQ audio with no mic, or telephonic quality audio with mic. I have to run the latter for Teams, so that means I can only get the HQ audio from my phone in this arrangement.)

    The problem I would run into is that I’d open the applet for a Teams meeting, forget to close it after the call, and then later in the day I couldn’t get audio with my phone bc with Windows “listening” (mic icon in system tray), the headphones couldn’t switch to my phone. Maybe it can only switch when the aforementioned modes match? IDK.

    Initially I couldn’t figure out what was going on, so I’d re-pair with my phone which fixed that problem, but naturally that confused the hell out of my Linux + Windows VM arrangement and I’d have to re-pair there as well the next day.

    Obviously the problem was self-inflicted in my case, but I think there are a lot of crappy devices out there with poor BT implementations. Hard to tell which is the case sometimes.

    Thinking about this a bit, I could probably improve my situation by sharing the host BT device with the VM as it shows up as a redirectable device in the VMM. Might try that sometime.

  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.nettoLinux@lemmy.ml•What problems can I expect using Linux (Fedora) with an NVIDIA GPU?
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Aurora which is an immutable distro based on Fedora. It’s from the same guys who do Bazzite. I use it on my work laptop with a discrete Nvidia card. I’ve had zero issues with the video driver. (I use Bazzite on two desktop and a laptop at home, all with Nvidia cards).

    I really like these universal blue distro because on the odd occasion that I have an issue after an update, I can reboot into a pinned working version of the system. There are only a couple of CLI commands to learn to pin and unpin the different systems. All currently available systems appear on the grub menu. It’s kind of brilliant IMO.

    Only downside is that installing RPM packages isn’t recommended, but I’ve found pretty much everything I need through flathub. I have one RPM package installed for VeraCrypt (no flatpak and it doesn’t work right in a container) but it hasn’t caused any issues for me.

    Edit: I should say I can’t speak to the ongoing driver issues on the 50 series cards. The newest card I own is an RTX 3080 LHR 12 GB.