I would argue that it’s not just advertising. It’s also a lot to do with how many people grew up in really terribly design homes with terrible hoarding situations.

A lot of millennials seem to course correct to the other extreme. Add to that the rental market where neutral is better because it can be customized without clashing with what renters already own.

They Millenial’d it.

4GB ram is enough for a glorified Lemmy/PornHub device. I use a Redmi 4x with 4GB and a snapdragon 435. It’s fast enough for modern mobile games (well barely).

Not anymore. Phones running Android 15 can get a full version of android rather than the Go variant but Android 16 and above require 6 GB of RAM or you’ll have to use the Go variant.

At the end of the day the entire OS has gotten bloated with features and apps have gotten larger and more resource hungry.

On my device I have 5.2GB of RAM currently allocated to “System”, and 2.9GB allocated to apps.

https://m.gsmarena.com/here_are_googles_new_minimum_ram_and_storage_requirements_for_android_phones-news-67387.php

If ever there was an excuse to switch to a E/os or another legacy android custom ROM like Lineage OS.

Because with only 4GB of RAM you’re not going to get the performance you want because the operating system for newer phones takes up so much of that RAM usage.

What you’re doing right now seems like you’re attempting to push your hardware beyond it’s limitations to run software that your phone isn’t specced for.

Google generally gets around this by providing a lighter weight version of their OS for bottom tier specced phones with Android GO, and budget phones were a lot of the reason they tried this.

It’s either that or, you have settings configured in such a way that when you close certain apps they aren’t persistent in memory (which makes sense with a budget phone or a low specced phone) and honestly that could also be Google’s fault because of default settings and their propensity for memory leaks.

I would argue that it’s not every iteration of android, but I get your point. I don’t think you were looking for solutions, but just in case, my comment is here.

Don’t think they meant that one, bud.

Supreme called. It’s in this picture and it doesn’t like it.

Very… Enterprising of Nancy.

Wish that worked for ADHD.

People seem to have taken this as a slight against op, but I’m gonna be real with you, for me it’s not that deep. Better to be shoved in sideways than not put in the fridge at all.

There is more than one benefit to ending physical media.

1. The end of the resale market
2. The end of paying for physical distribution.
3. Pushing users toward online gaming so that they can pay for microtransactions.
4. Live service games and seasons that require subscriptions.
5. The sale of hardware that will allow them to charge more for consoles/Harddrives.
6. Game streaming (which requires an internet connection, and allows them to gather information about users).
7. Game streaming that requires a whole separate online subscription.

If you thought it was just about the resale market I have some public landmarks for sale.

In my family this would have resulted in one parent telling the other parent that “your daughter” wasn’t raised right. That’s all I’m saying.

Just out of curiosity, who raised her?

100% Agreed.

I agree with you, but (as someone who’s reconfigured the seating on a lot of airplanes) we gotta hold airlines accountable for the continued war on leg room.

It’s funny because originally I didn’t understand how it was different and when it was explained to me in a factual way I did understand and changed my view and people really don’t like that.

Humans offloading the decisions to a bot that’s trained on bad decisions?

Is the hilarious thing to follow suit and announce the end of them offering physical disks?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-is-reportedly-considering-dropping-disc-drives-as-it-tests-new-feature-that-lets-players-digitize-physical-games

Counterargument:

The problems with Destiny 2 had to do with decisions made for shock factor/profitability that completely ignored what players actually enjoyed about the game.

AI does not have the ability to understand or make decisions about what players actually like. It is reliant on the parameters input by humans and those humans already have made a bunch of bad decisions that killed the game.

Ok. So let’s say for the sake of argument, you have Netflix. You pay for Netflix specifically for… I dunno, Top Gear. Suddenly without warning Netflix is forced to pull Top Gear from its streaming platform because the license to provide it to stream has lapsed or been otherwise ended. That’s basically what happened here except that they allowed you to pay per show or movie.

In this case what these customers paid for is the license to stream these digital items. Which (shitty though I agree it is) they agreed to when they made their purchases. But the fact is, Sony didn’t reach into people’s Harddrives and remove anything. What they did was remove these shows and movies from the digital streaming library of people who purchased it and the only reason they did is because otherwise they’d be sued if they didn’t.

So while I appreciate your outrage, I think it’s pretty important to note that the license holder (the entity that actually owns the ability to sell distribution rights for digital licenses to consumers) is the one who sets the terms, not the platform of distribution, and this happens so often that literally no digital media is safe except when you can download it DRM free (Google play music, band camp, GOG etc).

I don’t disagree that Sony is at fault for agreeing to that distribution agreement. That’s not anything like what I said. What I said was that they did it because they are required to by law.

In this particular case what they were selling wasn’t a licensed copy of a movie or show. They were selling a license to stream. When the contract ran out they had to pull it from the streaming platform.

Sony said that affected customers will lose the ability to stream titles including Outrage: Way of the Yakuza, Paddington, Paddington 2, Pan’s Labyrinth, Rambo 3, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas “due to our content licensing agreements.” As of September, Sony will remove any affected titles that UK users bought from their PlayStation library, per the notice.