I would definitely buy a Jolla Phone or it would work in the US.

It should work there. The problem for you would be no direct shipping to the US.

I remember even my Win98 machine had to have 16GB of RAM or couldn’t get anything done.

Try to get a modern web browser working on your Win98 machine. The problem is modern web browsers eating RAM, not Android.

But seriously, I’ve got an old laptop still in use and that’s getting along fine on 4 GB. Firefox, KDE, Libre Office, background tasks, some light gaming, no problem.

Let me guess: That old laptop has a swap file or partition?

If you dislike Android so much, get https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-october-2026 Should pair well with your new >1000 Euro Steam Machine.

using Android doesn’t have to mean it’s smart to go into intentional denial of a long list of shit that sucks, just to be a fanboy.

No OS can do magic and turn 4GB RAM into a suitable amount for memory hungry modern web browsers.

Although I am mildly infuriated that you hate Android

OP uses 4GB RAM but blames the OS.

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

Android also doesn’t use swap

Years ago a friend of mine actually enabled swap on a MicroSD. It worked, no idea for how long, though. That type of memory isn’t reliable enough to handle this.

But that said: I would love to replace it all with a true Linux phone.

4GB RAM, a modern web browser, and no swap file/partition. That doesn’t work well anywhere. Not Android, not GNU/Linux, not Windows, not macOS.

I’ve got 4 GB of RAM and multiple CPU cores. That should be enough to run a dozen apps in parallel.

In which world is 4GB enough to multitask a web browser under any OS?

I suspect they picked those so they wouldn’t have to “pick favourites” among the different European monuments

They picked favourites among them many famous Europeans.

In case you’re using Windows on the Ally X:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227

That’s the point of publishing deals, though. Authors don’t need to pay upfront costs, in return the publishers get to keep the revenues. Not really related to AI.

That’s the joke

Do you think sorting by “Hot” on Lemmy isn’t an algorithm?

In all fairness, not needing to install an OS is easier.

Except it’s wishful thinking because nobody wants to actually pay for any kind of infrastructure.

Metric = Freedom units confirmed!

The EU has 27 armies. Take that puny Murica!

For me on many phones over the years the arrow in Google Maps never points into the direction of travel.

Although GMaps at some point integrated some of Waze warnings, Waze offers more and not just speed cameras others mentioned. Broken down car streetside, btw.

if you’re going by car or train it’s good.

Goole’s far superior car navigation app is Waze.