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!

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    23 hours ago

    I disable power management on the apps I use often and never run into the issue.

    Power management does nothing when RAM is as constrained as 4GB

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        38 minutes ago

        the question is: why do two, not even three, apps consume all of the 4gb?

        Mozilla had to fire a big part of their browser engineering team to raise the salary of their CEO. That’s how FF is less optimized.

        • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          yes i know that obviously. But what do modern oses do more than they did with the memory limitations back then? They serve you more ads and they convince that taking up literally half of your memory and not even leaving enough resources for two apps is somehow necessary, when older computers hosted the os and the apps comfortably in a tiny fraction of that.