I do find it a bit odd that my phone has 12gb of memory which is a shitload. Maybe refine software?
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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Why should we, the developers, invest money into refining software when we can just get you, the users, to invest in more hardware?
Why not both?
Because more hardware means sell for more money
Yeah, thatβs one half of both.
6 GB RAM phone user here. What are you all doing with that RAM on your phones?!
My phone idles at 6.8 for some ungodly reason.
That's because empty RAM is wasted RAM.
You want to keep RAM full of stuff you aren't using right now. That stuff can be erased almost instantly if you need the RAM for something else. That's why OSs list "Available RAM" and "Free RAM" as two separate things.
Removing all the idle apps from RAM just means you need to wait longer every time you open one of them.
Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but...
They're not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don't function with less ram.
It's just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn't matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.
A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.
The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.
8.3gb idle here. Im pretty sure Im a part of aws without knowing it.
I just closed everything and got the below.
7.4 GB with all apps closed and no data connections. Closing all background apps gets to 6.2MB. Makes Windows look efficient.
Being spied on by the US, China, Russia and the rest of the five eyes alliance.
4GB here, recently I wanted to try out a local AI and was informed by the popup that 6GB is the bare minimum.
So, it won't be until my next upgrade that I can travel abroad and have image translation on my FOSS phone.
What app did you try?
I can't find it now, something from Github. The file name in downloads is TranslateOCD.apk (not my typo) and TranslateOCRapp is the app title in package installer.
I just checked mine, 6gb here too. It's probably been a month since my last restart. Only using 4.2gb. I have no idea what I would do with more.
Phones are being pushed to have full 3D game experiences. For example: running new resident evil games or Death Stranding. These things need that memory. Itβs unified memory, so itβs RAM and VRAM all in one.
It also enables multitasking. And if you are on Android, you are running Chrome, right? Notorious RAM eater.
I don't have games on my phone and I use duckduckgo. Every phone I've ever had has been at 60% memory usage idle.
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Expectation: Shift toward leaner apps/app building frameworks, more user control about background process management
Likely reality: Background app killing becomes even more aggressive, multitasking (somehow) sucks even harder lmaoooooo
"shortage"
Free-market apologists/cultists will be ready with a lot of excuses for this one.
Isn't that exactly what the article is? Rather than slash profits a little until prices return to normal, they're trying to justify lowering specs while acting like the victims.
Fair enough
An caps have always been out of touch
PC game emulation is the only thing I care for in high end phones. For that 16+GB is good. Sucks that we're going backwards in consumer electronics affordability
Dont worry, Samsung will now use 8gb
Oh no! Anyway...
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