• IpsumLauren@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      If you hover on it (without clicking, resist the temptation) it says it is for “Mark/unmark this device as trusted”.

      • cholesterol@lemmy.world
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        Which in turn doesn’t quite explain what happens. For me, the relevant difference was that ‘trusted’ devices autoconnect.

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          Well there’s “trusting” a device, “pairing” with a device and “connecting” to a device. Which need to be done in that order

          Which makes it even more confusing what the button does

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      Afair it pairs the selected bluetooth device. It will then enable the button left to it, to add the selected and connected device as trusted.

        • Agent641@lemmy.worldOP
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          Exactly! Why did two of the icons get icon+text label status, while the others got just icon status?!

          Either standardized on icon + text label, or just icon, or just text.

          We stopped using pictogram representations of concepts 2000 years ago and pivoted to symbols representing speech sounds, why are we regressing to ictograms again?