2023-04-05: Truly Amazing How Terrible Smartphones Are
Old man yells at cloud.
How the fuck does Android use 1.6gb of RAM on boot with nothing else running? My desktop doesn't use that much on a fresh boot. And what's especially insulting is that this is more than half of the phone's onboard RAM. Was literally any effort put into optimizing the OS for this hardware?
Yes, actually — I went quite out of my way and used ADB to nuke a bunch of garbage off of the device. Before that, it used something like 2gb of RAM after boot. Incredible engineering. This is inexcusably bad. Remember when flagship smartphones were about $200-$300? This phone cost me around $150, refurbished. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect it to be able to load webpages smoothly. I guess all that spyware has to run somewhere, though.
God I hate smartphones. Please let the year of the Linux handset come soon.
And don't tell me to get an iPhone, either. iOS is terrible and Apple hardware is way out of my price range, so unless you want to front me $800 and show me how to install a non-toy operating system, keep it to yourself.