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Hmm, I wasn't being a prick. You commented your guess in this post so I replied. I did not know you were replying to yourself. Sorry, I missed to read that!

Of course!

DSP (Digital Signal Processor) is used anywhere where a digital signal is processed like audio, video, etc. When you play your favourite media its played by your processor's DSP instead of your CPU saving battery. Speech recognition is another area where DSP is used for this.

Nowadays, it does more than just play media. Including doing AI tasks on a NPU(Neural Processing Unit) like Object recognition, running LLM(Large Language Models) to generate pictures, suggest frequently used apps, etc.

and what kind of code can take advantage of this? apps? javascript in browser apps? or a non-app system process with a specific privilege?

As for code anything that processes signals can be accelerated by it.

User code does not get privileged access to it. JavaScript is sanboxed but system processes in chrome and firefox can use it for media playback.

For accelerated AI tasks on the NPU. It depends if the app developer leverage the specific neural SDK for Qualcomm, mediatek. Or use NNAPI API, or LiteRT

It's standard on most smartphones like the CPU, GPU. If you want you can ask perplexity.ai for specific info in it.

I have given a short summary. But, there's lot more you can read if interested.

I'm guessing either something changed in their testing methodology, or Motorola and xiaomi both became slower for some reason, or perhaps samsung became faster and aggresive with their 45w PD+PPS charging. Because, other motorola and xiaomi smartphones charge fast at 40-50mins typical.

Even my own phone(not a xioami/Motorola) charges at a similar speed. In any case these speeds can change due to various factors like heat and usage. So, if your phone is hot it will charge at a different pace compared to if it was cool to the touch.

You should consider the actual phones which do include this feature. Gsmarena has a phone finder function which can help narrow the results.

FE used to stand for Fan Edition, but now it's just a slightly tweaked, cheaper S series smartphone.

Sorry, for late reply. Apparently, due a server configuration issue. Lemmy.world posts and replies were not syncing to reddthat.

Anyway, I just re-checked and my local marketplace was showing the 12GB/256GB variant as not deliverable. I checked in storage option on site, and the 512GB variant was hidden inside. Changing to that made the option available.

So, I could've bought this phone. I will consider the future phone 3a/4a or phone 3/4. Thanks for helping.

Also is Lineage OS shipping patches? I know many devices have been abandoned by the vendors so it is entirely possible this will go unpatched in older devices

This is a vulnerability in a proprietary Qualcomm's DSP. The patch will only be made available to OEMs. LineageOS cannot patch this vulnerability if the device itself is no longer receiving official updates.

I get the point of chromium. But, for firefox if you argue about it being useless without add-ons. The same can be said for chromium browsers apart from it being controlled by google.

Instead of smart folders they should consider copying Smart launcher and categorize apps in categories of seperate pages. That's the one I like the most and one of the reasons I use smart launcher.

You will wait a long time and still see no results. What's wrong with existing Chromium or Firefox?