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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 19:15:11 JST iced depresso
   linux is a great operating system
   for example most systems don't completely lock up and die because a bluetooth handshake failed
   
   linux however, does, demonstrating the superior user experience of making you want to throw the computer in the landfill and become an amish peasant
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 19:15:10 JST 翠星石

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     @icedquinn Linux isn't even an operating system.
     
     It's a monolithic kernel which is why things like that can happen.
     
     It's time for you to install GNU/Hurd.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 17:01:36 JST 翠星石

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     • miauz genyau
     • LisPi
     @lispi314 @mia >thought the bt stuff was mostly user space??
     I'm not exactly sure of the innate details of the complete mess that is known as a bluetooth stack, but part of the driver is in kernel space and the rest (bluez) is in user space.
     
     Most of the bluetooth stuff being in userspace doesn't really have much of a benefit when the userspace part is plenty capable of hanging the kernelspace part.
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     LisPi (lispi314@mastodon.top)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 17:01:37 JST LisPi

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     • 翠星石
     • miauz genyau

     @mia @icedquinn I wish it was, but no, it relies on a kernel module which I blacklist on most of my systems because bluetooth is a major liability.

     It is complex, brittle and a great source of bugs.

     @Suiseiseki has the right of it.

     Of course userspace drivers are possible on Linux but barely anyone does that.

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     miauz genyau (mia@movsw.0x0.st)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 17:01:39 JST miauz genyau

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     @icedquinn@blob.cat wait what
     
     thought the bt stuff was mostly user space??
     
     or is this just a broken device driver