• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, my parents actually close all their apps regularly, whereas I have dozens of apps not doing anything in the background since it doesn’t really make a difference.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      Tons of FOSS apps doing crucial stuff use tricks, like displaying a permanent notification (which you can then mute) to stay awake.

      Also, you need to manually set the battery restriction to “unrestricted” for apps, by pretting on the text in the 2 battery options, and setting it away from “optimized”.

      Androids memory management is crazy