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  • @Niko I share your pain, my attempts of getting a bluetooth dongle to work never made it to "works reliably". I stepped back from it and I use an old lineageOS tablet now.

    I've freshly bought three different usb bluetooth dongles in May 2021. One has a Broadcom BCM20702A0, but https://github.com/winterheart/broadcom-­bt-firmware/ shows that Broadcom stopped security support a few years ago.

    The other was a "Qualcomm CSR8510" as recommended, but still had problems. This one I need to retest, because Chromium was acting strangely.

    Then there is a edimax BT-8500, which came with code for a kernel module and then was most promissing.

    So I believe there are multiple reasons for the problems:

    1. bluetooth complexity
    2. consumers being very price sensitive and just buy cheapest, so vendors produce cheaply.
    3. Chromium (which is the codebase for Chrome) not really putting a focus on this.
    4. Not enough funding/development power for GNU/Linux Bluetooth support
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