And I don't mean just Google's Android. Every single iteration. With their stupid memory management for PoWeR sAvInG.

I was typing up a rant on how incredibly boring and stupid Disclosure Day was when I just quickly switched to Firefox to look up a character's name when Android decided that I was done using my Lemmy client and just outright killed it without even giving it enough time to save my comment to drafts, like it usually does.

You can never be sure when you leave an app whether it will continue doing what it's supposed to or if it will be frozen or killed.

I've got 4 GB of RAM and multiple CPU cores. That should be enough to run a dozen apps in parallel. My frickin N900 with 128 MB had better multitasking than a modern Android smartphone!

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    the fact that systems exist which don't, but still do the same things

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    my pc at home, which doubles as a server, which runs plex, qbittorrent and other stuff, idles at about 1.5 to 2 gigs. While signed in to kde

    The phone i am typing this on is currently sitting at just under 5gigs in use, jerboa is the only open app.

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    my pc also has a full networking stack, just like the phone. And it has a bunch of services running. And i didn't count cached memory for either, just what is in use at the moment.

    If you had 64gigs of ram you'd want 60+ to be used as cache, not to be "in use". And i force closed all apps except the one I'm using to write this comment.

    Why is it so hard for you to believe stuff is bloated and can actually be significantly more efficient?

    My phone doesn't have all the services my pc has either...

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    in my laptop, not my pc, but yes. And it doesn't make a difference. It needs a couple of megabytes of ram. Not gigabytes. A cellular modem does its thing in its own firmware, the driver side is tiny in comparison.

    When you work in embedded stuff with kilobytes of ram, you learn to appreciate just how much a little memory could go. Yes, I do know, this shit is my bread and butter

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    well actually, yes we do know, by actually checking. You cannot guarantee anything.

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    What do you think they're doing that requires gigabytes of ram?

    Thinking having a cellular connection is significantly any more memory intensive than a wifi or ethernet connection tells me that it's you who doesn't have the faintest idea of anything. You're projecting

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