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>Wired standards are not free from complex protocols and error-filled implementations.

Sure, but once you figure it out for the set of devices you are using, that's it! It just works until it breaks for good. Wireless stuff... not so much. One day it works, the next it doesn't.

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For certain devices like headsets, even the wired ones I find randomly stop working, I am sure it is not purely random but typically due to opening up X, Y, and Z programs In a certain order. Issue resolved with restarting but that can be pretty disruptive in the middle of a work day.

> It just works until it breaks for good.

...or until you move furniture around and then need a connection over here instead of over there.

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