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Comment by sergiotapia | Hacker News Reader

Bluetooth. It sucks in every kind of way possible. It never connects when you want it to. It autoconnects when you DONT want it to. Pairing is a crapshoot and praying.

It's basically printers all over again. It sucks!

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My best/worst UX: my android phone sometimes temporarily increases the volume to 100% when i connect to headphones via bluetooth, then has the audacity to give me a warning that listening at high volume can be dangerous.

Yeah fucking Bluetooth is the real player of 2022. Even when it works it works poorly

Wait, is the printers story over?

No and that makes it worse

Bought my brother laser printer in 2019. Zero maintenance zero worrying about the INK DRYING OUT (wtf) and my wife can print from the LAN or her phone. I've done zero tech support so that makes it worth every penny. To me it's a solved issue try it!

Bought my Brother laser printer in... 2017? The laser printing aspect is great[0], but I can count on one hand the number of times network printing has worked. I've completely changed network hardware a few times since then, so I'm pretty sure it's the printer.

[0]: Assuming you don't need color or images. Black and white images look awful.

Primarily because it's become infinitely easier to avoid. I don't think I've printed much beyond sheet music in the last decade, and even that was trivially replaceable by a small tablet in situations where I didn't have a Kinko's nearby.

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