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  • I was at my parents this week and my dad said his tablet got slow.

    I checked the running apps and open tabs and the phone couldn't even express it in a number (normally it does up to 999).

    Then I hit the clear background apps button and the thing just straight up spazed straight to a full cold boot.

    An hour later, dad said it was much much faster now, but that I "removed his apps". (I didn't and they were still there, just not running all the time!)

    • When my dad had a desktop, for some reason beyond my comprehension, he’d seemingly download every toolbar offered to him. Opening up his internet browser on desktop and literally half of the screen was just toolbars.

      He also insisted that I not touch it because he needed them.

    • Gosh. That’s much more the fault of the os developer than your father.

    • That reminded me of a time at work where some testing on our project required opening some large XML files. We were using Notepad++ to open them and format them so we could easily examine them. My boss complained about how bad Notepad++ sucked because it was sooooo slooooow to open.

      I checked his computer and it turned out that while he would close Notepad++, he never actually closed the file tabs. So every time he opened a new file, it was adding to the hundreds of open XML files. He was literally opening several GBs of XML files every time he launched the app. Frankly, it made me even more impressed with Notepad++ because I would have assumed most other apps would've been crushed.

      • Lol, that's similar as to how I suggested Microsoft Code to someone I worked with for their personal laptop since they mainly used MSVS at work.

        Were bitching they didn't like Code because it "didn't work half the time".

        Turns out they were doing the same thing, opening files, sometimes editing them and then just closing the application.

        Had a whole smorgasbord of open files and most of them were in an edited but unsaved state.

        This concept of explicit saves rather than closing an app and having it force save was horrible to them.

    • Signals' note to self chat is really convenient, ngl. A linear chat history is obviously not the most organized way of writing notes, but for some small save-for-later type infos here and there, I like it a lot.

    • Sometimes I text myself a picture on my phone so I can get it on my desktop without bothering fuffing with a file transfer.

  • To be fair, the screen is bright and the fonts are big because she's an old lady and her eyesight is bad and the volume is loud because her hearing is also bad.

  • God, whenever I help my mom with something on her phone or get it for her, I always see she has tons and tons of notifications. I could never do that. She also has many apps open usually and that also is something I couldn't do. I have more than maybe 4 notifications and 4 apps open at a time and it drives me insane.

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