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minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoOut of curiosity, what’s the point of installing Bluetooth but keeping it disabled? I imagine the opposite would be the default most people wanted (enable it by default and let power users with a bizarre use case disable it manually).
minus-squareJumuta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agobecause arch is a minimal distro and some people see the processing power used for bt to be wasted
minus-squaresederx@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoBecause it’s a security risk but you might need it sometimes.
Out of curiosity, what’s the point of installing Bluetooth but keeping it disabled?
I imagine the opposite would be the default most people wanted (enable it by default and let power users with a bizarre use case disable it manually).
because arch is a minimal distro and some people see the processing power used for bt to be wasted
Because it’s a security risk but you might need it sometimes.