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!
I have 12GB of RAM in my phone (in comparison to 4GB in my mini PC (good enough for XFCE (although the browser will still eat a good chunk))), the only thing that runs realiably is Termux.
But the power management is just shit. My last 2 phones kill the fucking built-in alarm clock. I can set it to unrestricted in settings, I can enable exception in DuraSpeed, or do whatever many steps the current device needs, but at best it’s a coin flip whether alarm will work or not.