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by Aeolun 1334 days ago
In my experience switching between devices with bluetooth is more hassle than it’s worth.

The only thing that does it decently is my speaker, but for keyboard and mouse I have a KVM switch (that tries to do something smart with the keyboard that leads to dropped keys, which is also mega annoying).

No cables also means you constantly have to charge. Even if your keyboard lasts a week that means that once a week in the middle of something it just dies.

If you put it on the charger every night, then what was the point of not having cables :/

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And then there is the annoying interference. Sometimes, my AirPods would constantly drop out during a video meeting, until I switched off my Magic Keyboard/Trackpad. Or in some environments, the sculpt would only work reliably if I put the dongle on a USB dock or cable right next to the keyboard.

I hate Bluetooth.

Luckily the base 360 is wired. Though no QMK (and obviously no ZMK), though smartset is pretty ok to. Especially now that they have more than two layers, would love it if they backported that to the Advantage 2.