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by skybrian 882 days ago
I think the desktop policy might be better. In the tablets I've used, tabs sometimes get killed when I switch tabs and visit another website with a lot of ads. It's an annoying way to lose work in an unsubmitted form. It doesn't seem to happen for desktop.
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NavinF 882 days ago
That's because most (all?) phones don't swap to a pagefile whereas every desktop OS has swap enabled by default. The only practical solution is to buy a phone with more memory. IMO 6GB is the bare minimum in 2024
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mkesper 881 days ago
No, just use an ad blocker and save the environment from more waste.
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NavinF 881 days ago
Ad blockers certainly shave off a few MBs, but in my experience the vast majority of RAM usage is not caused by ads. Unlike first party content, ads are automatically benchmarked by ad exchanges and penalized for using too much resources. I also don't think a 200gram phone is the kind of waste that we should be concerned about. Think bigger
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PoignardAzur 880 days ago
> I also don't think a 200gram phone is the kind of waste that we should be concerned about. Think bigger

A lot of raw ore is processed to get those 200 grams in your hand.

That said, a quick search tells me the carbon footprint of producing a phone is around 55kg, which is about 320km of car travel; it's not trivial, but it's not as much of a bottleneck I thought it might be.

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NavinF 880 days ago
It's not uncommon for me to drive 320km in a day and take flights that Google Flights claims emits 579kg per leg. So I'd place 55kg from phones in the "fuck all" category even if I upgraded every year.
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PoignardAzur 880 days ago
... Or maybe you should avoid both?

Like, I don't know your life, maybe you go to your family or important business meetings or something with these flights, but in any case none of this is going to be "fuck all" if we want to have any chance to stay under the +1.5°C (or even +2°C) bar.

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