Comment on I hate Android!
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoin my laptop, not my pc, but yes. And it doesn’t make a difference. It needs a couple of megabytes of ram. Not gigabytes. A cellular modem does its thing in its own firmware, the driver side is tiny in comparison.
When you work in embedded stuff with kilobytes of ram, you learn to appreciate just how much a little memory could go. Yes, I do know, this shit is my bread and butter
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You have no idea what Android or iOS or Windows or any other operating system is doing in the background though, you just think it’s “bloat” and “inefficient”. I guarantee you that the people making these OS’s know more about it than you, and are making it as efficient as it can be.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
well actually, yes we do know, by actually checking. You cannot guarantee anything.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How are you checking what closed source systems are doing?
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
What do you think they’re doing that requires gigabytes of ram?
Thinking having a cellular connection is significantly any more memory intensive than a wifi or ethernet connection tells me that it’s you who doesn’t have the faintest idea of anything. You’re projecting