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Good thing this is at least very easy to block per-app with a Xposed module.

Although it is quite concerning indeed that there isn't an easy and explicit way for you to be notified when an app tried to do this on its own, it would be nice to have a tool that can automatically scan an app to see if it does that

More like enshitification is the norm.

What's capitalism without enshitification? And in an actually functioning society where capitalism is not literally the only thing the society operates on, there would be regulatory and state policies preventing enshitification from becoming the only thing there is because supposedly a government is one of the things that is NOT for-profit like a company. So without that enshitification would be the only thing left in a pure capitalism society.

And we are watching exactly how it's like when a government is becoming for-profit in the US :(

Chinese companies have always been enshitifying for decades. A defining characteristic of China is that it's pure capitalism with very little regulation compares to even the US, and nowhere close to the EU.

I totally agree with the AOSP-like ROM and I love it so much too, especially since Sony also makes it super straightforward to root (took me less than 10 minutes) with no artificial function limitations after root (unlike the Samsung models where you can even root at all), so a highly AOSP-like ROM also means a lot of the cook OS customization tools originally developed for Pixel phones, where most of such community development efforts are focused on, tend to mostly work too on th Xperia phones :p

For side-loading Sony native apps from other models, I tried the old pro video recording app from previous gen (the Cinema Pro) on my Xperia 1 VI just for curiosity (since the new unified camera app with all the pro camera and pro video features included in a single app is definitely an usability improvement lol), and it worked fine, so it might work too if you side-load the new camera app onto your older model, feel free to DM me if you're interested to experiment with this and I can try the various methods for exporting that app and send to you.

Although Lineage OS is not yet available for the gen VI model since it only came out in 2024, however the previous gen V model got its first Lineage OS release in around September, 2024, so it might not take that long to get Lineage OS for the gen VI model :D

Ironically, on my Xperia 1 VI (which I specifically chose as my daily driver because of all the compromises on flagship phones from other brands) I had the only experience where I actually felt like a smartphone feature based on machine learning helped my experience, even though the Sony phones had practically no marketing with the AI buzzwords at all.

Sony actually trained a machine learning model for automatically identifying face and eye location for human and animal subjects in the built-in camera app, in order to be able to keep the face of your subject in focus at all time regardless how they move around. Allegedly it's a very clever solution trained for identifying skeletal position to in turn identify head and eye positions, it works particularly well for when your subject moves around quickly which is where this is especially helpful.

And it works so incredibly well, wayyyyy better than any face tracking I had on any other smartphone or professional camera, it made it so so much easier for me to take photos and videos of my super active kitten and pet mice lol

This is just a Linux VM just like th Crostini in ChromeOS, so I'd expect similar 40%+ performance loss compares to for example proot container through Termux running natively.

The only thing this could probably offer would be giving you better OS GUI Integration into Android, like Crostini on a ChromeOS device. But if that is needed you might as well just use an Android port or an Android equivalent of your Linux software anyway, it's not like you'd ever want to run Matlab, GIMP or OpenFOAM on your Android phone with its tiny screen anyway LMAO

Awwww darn as a fellow languages and linguistics enthusiast I feel your pain too XD

I found it helpful if some of the languages you focus on happens to be written in entirely different writing systems :p

Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there's a lot less serious ones of that kind lol

I agree with your points, but what do you think are some of the specific things Google or other similar tech companies in such a similar capacity could realistically and meaningfully do object the Musk-Thiel-Trumpian destruction machine?

I would like to learn more

Though to be fair cringe is like right in the very blood to Google anyway so what would you expect...

I mean, just look at how they often respond on their bug tracker platform of most of their products and how they try to justify their endless streams of questionable design decisions, that seems to be characteristic of them at this point lol

Ooo I see! That's awesome!

Yeah unfortunately we don't have hundred-years data on them lmao but at least it would still be interesting to see how examples of such disk go as years and decades go by :p

So they are aware of how terrible ads are and they intentionally want to keep it this way, so that they can sell advertisers "better ads" for higher premium as a form of product and price diversification, with those "better" products they offer eventually end up being terrible and make the ads situation as a whole worse, so they can keep introducing new kinds of "better ads" product to have a "justified" way of asking even more money from advertisers?