Vemund technotes

Plug and Pray: Why Bluetooth Audio on Windows Is Worse Than a Decade Ago It’s 2025. I can use AI to summarize a YouTube video, my PC can generate photorealistic images from a sentence, and yet… it still takes me up to two minutes to connect a Bluetooth headset to Windows 11. Ten years ago, it was practically instant. Today, it’s “please wait,” “connecting,” “something went wrong,” or just dead silence. How did we end up here? Somewhere along the line, driver development went from being the rock-solid backbone of Windows to a backburner task. Instead of focusing on stability and real hardware compatibility, the big effort seems to go into UI tweaks, shiny new apps, and—heaven help us—more media control buttons. Meanwhile, the basics have started to fall apart. Here’s the thing: Drivers matter. Without good drivers, we’re back to the dark ages—bits and bytes, no sound, no network, no webcam, no fun. Instead of another minor UI refresh or yet another built-in app, I’d love to see Micros...

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