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I'm actually on the P9PF rn myself since release so coming up on a year

Yea the SoC has been a disappointment, not terrible, but not good either. The first couple weeks were rough for battery life until the optimizations kicked in lol

Cameras are always on the "as long as they're there" list for me LMAO but I have quite enjoyed the optical zooming on it lolol

It's been pretty reliable for me IMO, but I also only unfold when I'm doing something that actually benefits from it, in contrast with my Dad who got a Samsuck fold who has to unfold it ALL the time because "The front screen sucks to use" LMAO so I figure his will probably break before mine just for that

Overall, for a Google 2nd gen product, id say it's decent and probably the best out of the options I could get on T-Mobile in the states lol but there's absolutely room for improvement

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What? Neowin is pretty well known, that's weird, maybe a false positive?

Anyways, it was a shortish article so I'll just copy paste:

A few weeks ago, Mozilla announced that its Pocket and Fakespot services were getting the axe as the company focuses more on Firefox. It is a complete shutdown. Pocket, the read-it-later service Mozilla bought in 2017, will stop working on July 8, 2025. You have until October 8 to get your saved articles out before they are deleted forever. Fakespot, which helped you spot garbage product reviews, is also being sunsetted.

But the house cleaning does not stop with those two. Neowin has spotted a shutdown notice dated June 26, 2025 for Deep Fake Detector, the Firefox extension that was supposed to tell you if a piece of text was written by a human or an AI chatbot. That tool used a combination of Mozilla's own proprietary ApolloDFT engine and open-source models like ZipPy to give you a verdict on what you were reading.

The notice says:

** Important Update: Deepfake Detector will shut down on June 26, 2025. **

On June 26, you will no longer be able to use Deepfake Detector. Thanks for supporting our journey.

This brings us to the AI tools. Following the pattern, the Orbit website was updated with a banner that announced the service would shut down by June 26. Orbit was Mozilla's big privacy-first experiment in AI. It was a Firefox add-on that could summarize articles and answer questions about a webpage's content without sending your data to a third party.

Orbit's private, self-contained setup can be replaced with the new sidebar built directly into Firefox, letting you connect to third-party chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini. But, for Orbit users, this is still a huge loss, as a key feature of the service was privacy. Your prompts were handled by Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) within Mozilla's GCP instance and were not shared with other companies for model training.

Mozilla keeps saying these cuts are necessary. As the only major browser not owned by a tech giant, its resources are limited; hence, the need to focus its cash and engineering talent on the core Firefox browser to compete.

It's never going to be the year of the Linux phone until there's one that actually has specs to do the things the majority of people want

Thus far, all the Linux phones I've seen had laughable specs. There's the Liberux NEXX, but it's still at the concept stage

Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

Piefed has gone from being rarely if ever even mentioned at all to, in just the last few days, being mentioned hundreds if not thousands of times a day in threads on virtually any topic, makes me highly suspicious.

You make interesting points, but for this specific thing, it almost certainly has to do with the .ee shutdown which was announced just a few days ago, apparently PieFed has fantastic comm transfer tooling so that's why it's probably been exploding in discussions since .ee has a number of large comms that are trying to figure out their next steps

The federal government does have a mechanism to activate a states national guard without a states input, but doing so activates them as Title 10 which means they basically turn into regular military personnel as opposed to a "states militia".

But that means they are also activated with all the rules and restrictions that come with being active under Title 10, which Drump is ofc ignoring.

Iirc, the intent for the mechanism is so the federal government can use state militias as a sort of emergency reserve unit OR if a states government has become non-functional because of a disaster/emergency whatever

Wow. Ok, looks like someone doesn't care about keeping the Space-Time Continuum clean

Probably one of those Continuum Change deniers booo

Courage the Cowardly Dog Meme‽ Upvote

I don't know why there's not more up take with it, there's so many memeable moments IMO lol

False, Thanos is far more respectable than the POS that is Muskytat

It doesn't change the fact that I find the ways in which you're perpetuating your endless feud with Lemmy's developers to be overly disruptive.

I'm doing what I do because I have identified 2 main reasons holding back other instances from defederation (which is the ultimate goal, as wide of defederation as the rest of the Triad is treated); 1) .ml has "big" comms and niche comms, 2) Lack of evidence/overtness

2 is addressed by my documentation of the mod log and posting here, there are some other behind the scenes stuff I'm working on to further this pain point as well, but not ready for prime time just yet

1 is addressed by my cross-posting, I do generally aim for non.world comms where possible. I also try to compensate my cross-posts on a 1:2 ratio. For every .ml crosspost I try to post 2 articles/content that I've come across on my own aka "organic posts"

I use https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month for final judgement, (usually the comm closest to dethroning the .ml version of a comm in MAUs, if that's a .world comms but another off-world one is close enough, I'll choose that instead. If an off-world comm already beats the .ml comm, I'll go to the next off-world, off-ml version as is the case with !technology@lemmy.world, my current favorite is forwarding to !technology@lemmy.zip

As a compromise, would you at least consider packing in the reposting of questions asked to asklemmy@lemmy.ml to the community on world?

That's not using existing functionality. It's not a question for which you're genuinely seeking an answer. The pollution from mindless crossposting of URL-based posts can be mitigated somewhat, but it's a harder problem to solve for text-based ones. Also, traffic from lemmy.world is more than all the traffic from every other instance combined, so there's no value in needlessly adding to it.

That's fair, and honestly text based posts took the longest for me to cross-post because of that, until I eventually settled on the "Original question/text by" format

As far as !asklemmy@lemmy.world goes, I was actually made aware that asklemmy leap frogged the .ml version and I had just started directing those posts towards !ask@lemm.ee ....and then the .ee shutdown was announced so I halted going there.

There's a bunch of specific ask"X" comms, but no other general asklemmy comms (at least as far as I could see from .world) if you have a suggestion on that, id be more than happy to send to a different smaller comm/instance

Also, just because I didn't think of it first, doesn't mean I'm not invested in the answers LMAO asklemmy cross-posts remain the most skipped, I'm often only doing ones that I have at least some level of interest in seeing the answers

I crossposted it to !dota2@lemmy.world

Because of .ml comms boycott

Yea, one of the very few things I've gone back for, to push Lemmy on it LMAO

I also respond to all join requests for my 2-years-private subreddit r/SuddenlySpongeBob with a forwarding link to !suddenlyspongebob@lemmy.cafe LOLOL

I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I also find it odd that you don't seem to find their behavior "demoralizing and depressing"

For the most part, I just use tools and features built-in to Lemmy, like the cross-posting functionality. The most automation I use is simple notifications (e.g. I'm not manually "crawling through the modlog", it's just a (very buggy) python script that fires off a notification upon a matching set of conditions)

But yet, you're perfectly cool with them straight up exploiting a known weakness/design flaw in the Lemmy-verse to further their goals?? Where's your condemnation of that behavior. I'm not even the first, or last, user they've done that sort of thing to before. And even in some cases going further and straight up attempting to doxx users.

There's so much evidence and documentation, that I could form a mega thread on it, with everything from numerous examples of blatant censorship/micromanaging in furtherance of a toxic political agenda to allowing the spread of known propaganda/misinformation and repeating Russian/China talking points like Russia's Ukraine invasion being just a negotiating tactic or that the Uyghur Genocide was just birth control overblown

And your response was to handwave all that away with, "Just ignore them and any damage they do to the nascent Thrediverse"?

Which BTW, might have been viable, too bad they see proper user/instance blocking as a threat to their ability to spread their "message" so it still doesn't work properly after 4 years despite something like that being important enough that it should be considered a core feature

20. Profit.

Damn kids these days, thinking they're invincible and shit and don't need the IKEA Safety String™ or the IKEA buddy system

THIS is what happens when you don't listen to basic safety lectures

Sounds like a WeStOiD deep fake!/s

This sign has RFID and GPS tracking

(X) Doubt

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