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I never understood those who buy on the hype of wireless-everything (that includes my own brother). Wireless is, and always will be flaky, even under a great OS implementation. Implementation is lacking on your kernel/distro, but even if it was done perfectly, you would still get the occasional problems, because, physics. This is is not seen as clearly with wifi or bt, but try to connect to a wireless monitor instead. There, you will see the problems 100x fold. It's flaky. So it's best to always be wired. Ethernet, usb etc.
Well I clearly know that wired is way more reliable and efficient for a lot of things. I’d never charge my phone without a wire for instance.
Still I’m happy to have wifi at home or wireless controllers for my Playstation 5.
Depending on how your home is set up, it can be awful to have cables everywhere.
Wireless devices let me use 2 different tables and an armchair+TV. That would simply not be an option otherwise.
The benefits of going wireless vastly outweigh an occasional connection annoyance to me. And worst case I can still plug them in.
My wireless g304 has been rock solid for years now. The battery lasts about 48 hours of active use before needing to be recharged. My Logitech ergo lift mouse has been rock solid for the past year as well and it's still running on it's very first battery!
I bought both for wrist pain reasons and for the most part they have also been very helpful for that too. Part of the reason I went wireless even for gaming is that the cable always dragged and caused issues with the mouse catching on occassion. It's very worth whatever "instability" you might see for any product that moves.
My wireless earbuds have been rock solid for several years as well. As far as I'm concerned, wireless has been a solved problem for a little while now, similar to printers. There's no point in needing a battery for something that doesn't move, like a keyboard, but damn if it isn't really nice for something that does.
I agree with the wireless being solved part, but printers still suck lol
Brother laser printers last for years without issue. My point was that so long as you put in a little effort to find something that isn't cheap shit you can actually get a product without any major issues.
Cheap wireless earbuds will fail, and will cause all sorts of frustration. On the other hand, well sourced earbuds will work for years without problems, just like printers.
Fair, I also have a brother laser printer and have never had issues. I was in IT Support for many years and boy were printers ever a problem.
Even cheap ear buds / headphones and mice these days seem to be perfectly stable wireless though. They may break physically or just have shitty performing hardware, but the wireless part itself has been pretty good these days