One thing has been holding me back from buying Bluetooth headphones: my Linux laptop doesn’t support Bluetooth APTX. Later Sony open-sourced LDAC, but those open-source devs are still too busy arguing about whether the code is “orthodox” to actually ship anything. Progress on APTX and LDAC support under Linux has been ongoing — some of it reverse-engineered, some of it code integrations — but none of it got merged upstream, because they’re still bickering. And at this point APTX has already been reverse-engineered, the LDAC source has been released, and it’s even been merged into ALSA, while PulseAudio still hasn’t moved. That makes no sense. So finally someone from China took action. Respect.

Emoji support on Linux is kind of crippled. Most guides tell you to install a bunch of fonts, and the result is still your emoji rendered in that ugly black-and-white style. Low-effort, honestly. The fix is to find an emoji font that plays nice with Linux. SegoeUIEmoji, bundled with Windows since 8, is one option. The other one I’m covering today is Emoji One.