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Mom's phone, Trek edition (lemmy.world)
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[-] Endorkend@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

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!)

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Your dad is Jen from IT Crowd?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xADal6lDLbE

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That is painfully accurate.

I still vividly remember when I was young that my dad blamed any and all computer problems on the fact that I downloaded Steam on the family PC. Couldn't possibly be because of the 20 "free" "antivirus" programs he downloaded.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I used to leave a dod window open to an SSH shell. My mom was convinced it was going to get us hacked.

[-] BeardedSingleMalt@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Had someone complain to me why their home PC was running impossibly slow. Long story short, they had paid versions of McAfee and Norton running at the same time as Stopzilla

[-] Jaccident@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Endorkend@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

Battery level

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

1% battery remaining on your Android device

[-] Pancito@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How can this be over 10mb ?

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Gif is not efficient for compressing videos like this

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

God I was helping one of my kids with their tablet the other day, the browser had 196 tabs open.. thats not even an exaggeration, 196. It was literally the first time I've ever used the close all tabs function on any browser.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 year ago

I don't keep too many tabs open on desktop unless I'm researching something. But on mobile it's just too easy to ignore. I've hit 1000 tabs a few times. It opens a new tab every time I click a link in an app. I don't see the tabs unless I really want to. So I forget.

[-] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm the same. Never really hit more than 10 tabs on desktop unless researching, and I reset them on restart anyway so they can't accumulate. On my phone I think I'm currently at 89, and that's only because i closed all when it went above 100.

Also notepad++ I probably have 100+ open for the same reason. Opening something new makes a new tab, and they never reset.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We switched my daughter to online school recently and she never closes tabs. I have to keep telling her, "you don't need to keep the tab of story we read for English 3 days ago open. You're never going to read it again. You didn't even like it."

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, definitely different school learning protocol here.

Our kids were fussing at me to close my tabs as I go by the time they hit middle school, and when they were younger we had a ‘clear tabs automatically on closing’ set up in their browsers.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Remaining RAM:

[-] ma11en@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

[-] PeeGee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Plus you can just download more if you need it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I recommend getting no more than 8GB or you will just have some extra RAM you aren't using.

[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

How hot the phone feels:

[-] centof@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

Haptic feedback

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

If this was a human being, I'd shoot it in the face.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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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