Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7.
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@fireborn Honestly the worst I've ever had with my iphone SE 3rd gen in nearly 5 years of usage is, it froze on me. Only twice. Twice, in almost 5 years. Thati s nothing compared to the worst I've seen from other manufacturers.
Was it scary? Sure was. The home button was still reacting but nothing else was going on, no tts, no sound, no haptics from VO. I had to force reboot it. But it never happened again.
I wouldn't trust android to not keep crashing like that if it did. That being said I believe VO also has no fallback if the system can't talk, exactly like talkback. I might be wrong though?
@xogium VO doesn't have a fallback as such, but you can add different voices from other engines to your voice rotor which you can navigate to in most cases.
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@fireborn Sure but what I mean is, someone who doesn't know... Like a beginner? Just... Good god.
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@xogium Oh yeah, I had the broken explore by touch problem, but that was my fault for enabling without doing updates when I knew the bug existed.
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@dhamlinmusic @xogium Yes, appears so. I have screen dimmed right now and it's not doing anything stupid.
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@dhamlinmusic @xogium Yes, appears so. I have screen dimmed right now and it's not doing anything stupid.
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Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.
This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.
#Samsung #GalaxyZFold7 #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Blind #tech #writing #blog #reviews
@fireborn Out of curiosity, What LLM helped you compose this? Editing to be clear that I'm not against AI writing at all, but this is pretty obvious and I'm curious on your tools.
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@fireborn Out of curiosity, What LLM helped you compose this? Editing to be clear that I'm not against AI writing at all, but this is pretty obvious and I'm curious on your tools.
@TheQuinbox @fireborn Claude. definitely Claude, though I can't tell what version
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Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.
This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.
#Samsung #GalaxyZFold7 #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Blind #tech #writing #blog #reviews
@fireborn oh god, glad you were able to figure it out in the end, idk why you had all of those issues, for me when switching from my S20 to the S23+ everything worked, it seems you were just super unlucky
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Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.
This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.
#Samsung #GalaxyZFold7 #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Blind #tech #writing #blog #reviews
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Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.
This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.
#Samsung #GalaxyZFold7 #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Blind #tech #writing #blog #reviews
@fireborn Samsung ships all their fold devices unfolded.
I think the reason is actually that they don't know how long those devices will be in the box before someone unboxes them.
If they ship it folded, it will have a bigger crease the first time a user unboxes it. And I have noticed on my own fold that some glue on the inside of the crease loosens up with time, which causes a sound when you tap there on the display. That might happen sooner if the device ships unfolded. -
@dhamlinmusic @xogium @fireborn Yup, this. Was about to say, I wonder if the Pixel fold would've given you similar issues.
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@dhamlinmusic @xogium @fireborn Yup, this. Was about to say, I wonder if the Pixel fold would've given you similar issues.
@jonathan859 @dhamlinmusic @xogium aI couldn't say if it would or not with any degree of certainty. A lot of this seems to be failures on Samsung's part, but that wouldn't change the fundimental state of things, that a foldable is still a foldable
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@fireborn Out of curiosity, What LLM helped you compose this? Editing to be clear that I'm not against AI writing at all, but this is pretty obvious and I'm curious on your tools.
@TheQuinbox I used Claude 4.6 to grammer check and typo check, mostly because I was wviting on my phone. I did notice it stripped out my seperators, which I'm not thrilled about and clearly didn't proof read hard enough.
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@TheQuinbox I used Claude 4.6 to grammer check and typo check, mostly because I was wviting on my phone. I did notice it stripped out my seperators, which I'm not thrilled about and clearly didn't proof read hard enough.
@fireborn @TheQuinbox huh. the whole flow feels very Claude, but that might just be convergence between your writing style and Claude's
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@fireborn @TheQuinbox huh. the whole flow feels very Claude, but that might just be convergence between your writing style and Claude's
@freya @TheQuinbox I was so incredibly pissed off at all these purely fundimental issues that I was experiencing. I was also tought, long before the advent of AI, that if you want to make a point and really make it understood, you lead with any possible counters or deflections.
I used to be far worse at appearing like an LLM, overuse of bold, ithealic, and blockquotes.
interesting observations though; maybe I should change up how I write to make people less wary of engaging with it.
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@freya @TheQuinbox I was so incredibly pissed off at all these purely fundimental issues that I was experiencing. I was also tought, long before the advent of AI, that if you want to make a point and really make it understood, you lead with any possible counters or deflections.
I used to be far worse at appearing like an LLM, overuse of bold, ithealic, and blockquotes.
interesting observations though; maybe I should change up how I write to make people less wary of engaging with it.
@fireborn @TheQuinbox oh I'm not at all wary of engaging with it, mind, just observing.
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@fireborn @TheQuinbox oh I'm not at all wary of engaging with it, mind, just observing.
@freya @TheQuinbox one nbof that things that people seem to forget is that AI is trained on a lot of journalistic writing, so anyone who has an appreciation for those styles and rhythms gets compaired to AI. I personally take it as a complement
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@freya @TheQuinbox one nbof that things that people seem to forget is that AI is trained on a lot of journalistic writing, so anyone who has an appreciation for those styles and rhythms gets compaired to AI. I personally take it as a complement
@fireborn @TheQuinbox that's very true! also your post about the death of the power user has fucking crystalised something I've been trying to say for a longass time
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@freya @TheQuinbox one nbof that things that people seem to forget is that AI is trained on a lot of journalistic writing, so anyone who has an appreciation for those styles and rhythms gets compaired to AI. I personally take it as a complement
@fireborn @TheQuinbox and your article about the little plastic android phone inspired the idea I'm trying to get off the ground for a modern nokia e63. not for weird trendy digital minimalism shit, but for making a device that *exists* to *communicate*
