by bigiain 4 hours ago
:sigh:
There's very little point having a discussion about something where other people can't even be bothered to properly read the link that was submitted - and even more frustrating when that link was literally a README file.
I didn’t follow that either from the README and I read the README before coming to the comments.
I have only used AirPods on iPhone and didn’t realize there were special features.
Therefore like most I had zero context.
Did the subheading "AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem." and the first line of body text "LibrePods allows you to use AirPods features that are exclusive to Apple devices." not provide the required context? Or at least strongly hint that there is context that iPhone-only AirPods users might not know - and for whom this project is probably irrelevant?
No, it did not. I found the link interesting like anything else open source. Will I use it? No. But I didn’t pick up on any of what you said. I thought they reverse engineered AirPods so they can work on Android, Linux etc
Not that they can already be used on other platforms as just Bluetooth devices (nor did I know that there were special Apple only features because it’s not widely known that those feature are Apple only)
_A lot of times_ people comment based on the title alone. I think it’s more common than one would imagine.
Yeah. And that's sad.
Recently, for the first time in over 15 years here, I've wished often for a "block user" function, so I can gradually weed those zero-effort zero-contributing users out. (If I didn't read HN across 4 or 5 different devices, I'd probably write a browser extension to allow me to do that...)
How would you handle replies?
What happens if they’re the top or middle of a pivotal subthread?
I think I'd "behead" subthreads at posts by blocked users, so their posts and any replies under them get hidden for me. I'm happy enough to lose followup discussion and/or arguments against anything a user who I've caught out not reading the actual post and replying - and been annoyed enough at too add them to my blocklist. I _might_ miss some interesting discussion that way, but I'm fine with that to be the cost of me avoiding getting irritated by annoying posters.
(And the mood I'm in right now, I'd probably block top level posts by blocked users as well)
So far most of the "discussion" on this thread is why did he post this. He just posted what he thought others missed, if people find it useless it will further down the page. TLDR, I find the comments under that thread questioning why he posted even more pointless.