Librepods: AirPods liberated

Post by jitl » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 2:03 AM UTC

jabwd wrote: post #83

jitl wrote: post #59

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Why would they try to make the AirPods a worse purchase? Apple is happy to let you run whatever operating system on your Mac -- they aren't actively hostile there, but they don't help the community either. Still, I would recommend the Sony WF-1000XM6 if you're not an Apple computer or phone user already. The UX is reportedly worse and a bit buggy, but the sound should be better.

You can configure them to pause them when you take them out of your ear, except when it is not an Apple device. They will refuse to do so, even though they clearly detect the event since you can no longer use the stem as a pause button when you do so. Clearly they make it worse just because you didn't get an Apple device, so yeah idk what you're smoking but give me some.

Post by cosmic_cheese » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 2:15 AM UTC

emdash wrote: post #40

Mistletoe wrote: post #7

I’m going to be honest I fell for the AirPods Pro 3 hype about it being the best noise cancelling of all time and I bought a pair. I found the noise cancelling worse than my $30 Anker Soundcore P30i, I could never get the hearing test on the AirPods to pass no matter what depths of a quiet room I went to, and the sound quality on music was worse than my Ankers. Don’t fall for the hype or at least order from Amazon li…

I have yet to try a pair of earbuds with better active noise canceling than the airpod pro 2.

Post by truncate » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 2:35 AM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #68

Aurornis wrote: post #61

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> How is it confusing? Judging by all of the other comments that assumed otherwise, a lot of people either weren’t reading the README or weren’t parsing what it was saying.

: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.

Post by bigiain » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 2:45 AM UTC

DANmode wrote: post #86

bigiain wrote: post #82

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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?

Post by firesteelrain » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 2:59 AM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #98

firesteelrain wrote: post #89

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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?