That’s right. The art of correctly handling savedInstanceState is unfortunately not exactly well understood

Your phone is trying to keep your battery alive. The lower the specs of the phone, then the more aggressive the OS is.

No, apps closing between switches is not a matter of battery, it’s a core feature of Android related to the management of RAM. Whenever the OS needs more available RAM, the OS will close a backgrounded app to make those resources available. This is why it happens more frequently on low-end devices - these generally ship with less RAM.

Some misguided vendors will limit background execution in incorrect ways in the name of saving battery, but the general thing with apps living in background is a story of RAM.

Interestingly enough, apps are supposed to be built to cope with being closed down due to lack of RAM and then be restored seamlessly, but this is an art that is uncommonly done correctly in the Android development space. The OS support is there, though.

That’s just a bit sloppy on their part in that case - you fix bugs on all applicable variants of the flag, otherwise you even kind of negate the Scientific validity of your results

At the scale that Google operates, you need to play it carefully with rollouts.

I think this has been happening to me too, come to think of it.

The reason you roll things out slowly is that you want to make sure nothing’s getting fucked up, in part software malfunction and in part usage metrics.

I can recommend switching to reading books. An e-reader with mild backlight is ideal for this use-case as you can keep the room pitch black and still be able to read. My time to fall asleep and rate of early wakeups has plummeted since I made the switch

Dudes trying to assassinate them with cringe

To clarify - Sweden has a lesser variant of the U.S credit score system, but it differs in some important ways. For example, you don’t have to get a credit card to ‘build credit’ - you are assumed to be in good standing unless you have unusual ratios of debt and so on.

Sweden does not have a social credit score system.

This is true. They do not think, because they are next token predictors, not brains.

Having this in mind, you can still harness a few usable properties from them. Nothing like the kind of hype the techbros and VCs imagine, but a few moderately beneficial use-cases exist.

LLMs are fundamentally unsuitable for character counting on account of how they ‘see’ the world - as a sequence of tokens, which can split words in non-intuitive ways.

Regular programs already excel at counting characters in words, and LLMs can be used to generate such programs with ease.

I have zero desire to live like that to be completely honest with you

This happens because LLMs operate on tokenized data, and they don’t really “see” the text in the form of individual characters.

You can quite reasonably get an LLM to generate a script that does the character counting and then run the script, to arrive at the correct answer.

I assume it must be a very misguided A/B-test, one which I imagine won’t actually roll out in the end.

May she have used it as toilet paper

Hosting the code is probably non-material as far as costs go for Mozilla, and I doubt they would ever recoup the costs of migrating the code off their current solution in terms of engineering costs.

If I had to guess, this is them meeting other Open Source contributors where they usually are, which in large part is GitHub these days.

Jellyfin is better anyway

I wish this were true, but as a multi-year Plex-to-Jellyfin migrant, I have to point out that Plex was the better software.

I still choose to run Jellyfin for other reasons (don’t like the commercial path Plex is taking, among others), but I still do miss the better reliability and larger feature set in the Plex software stack.

Pixels can be configured to limit charging to 80% these days.

I’ve started using it and the difference between using 80% and 100% on a daily basis is negligible, I rarely if ever let my device go below about 35% anyway. So this change is basically free battery life for the device

Heavy on the sauce

Cellulose is generally recyclable but as I understand it degrades through each cycle, until it’s basically unfit for recycling and is more efficient to burn for energy.