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Is there anything I can do about this extremely vague block of data that’s taking up 30% of my phone’s storage? Mind you, this isn’t the operating system itself, as that’s listed as its own category.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tracking your behaviors for advertising companies and governments creates a lot of data. Ideally you'd get paid for providing it, and it would be interesting to compare system data on American phones to European ones.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Higher resolution displays need higher res assets.

But also, instead of building more efficient stuff, the pattern is to just take up resources because Moore’s law.

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