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Comment Re:Already an option for 'advanced users' (Score 3, Interesting) 36

The problem is that alternate app stores would have had to verify all their apps with Google which defeats the purpose of being alternate. This move would allow them to actually exist again as they currently do, but it does raise the question of how this will be different from the current method of allowing alternate app stores to install apps, which has already existed in android for quite some time.

Comment Re:Working in the late '90s to early '00s (Score 1) 181

* After booting and opening all your "workworse apps", you would call a script that would request 85% to 90% of the total RAM of the machine, forcing everything to SWAP. Afterwards, slowly, things would come back from swap, but only the really usefull stuff, all the flaff (codepaths seldomly used, if at all) stayed on the swap. Made a huge difference on Win2000 and XP, less so on latter editions, as the memory manager was slowly refined.

Such software was available from the 90s or even earlier and was ALWAYS a scam. It was always made for the "look your free RAM number went up" selling point while ignoring the fact that such software forces Windows to dump cache to free the required space, or as you said swap things to disk. Your PC would run slower as cache was rebuilt, and things pulled back from swap as you needed them, and in the end you would just slow down your PC for nothing. Having extra data in RAM hurts nothing. Normal use of RAM would see seldom used data in memory you're concerned about swapped anyway when needed without needing to violently reorganize RAM and swap. There's a reason why MS saw these products being sold over years if not decades and chose not to integrate the behavior into Windows themselves. As you said memory management has improved and it has done so without needing to integrate this behavior. What MS has done is deemphasize "Free RAM" in Task Manager which these apps boosted and emphasized "Available RAM" which includes both free RAM and Windows cache. I've always assumed this was done in response to these types of "tools" to better emphasized how RAM is actually treated by the system.

Plenty of info online, tried to find a good video or something, all the ones I'm seeing are about different memory scams.

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 174

This is mainly because institutions and systems that used to teach people how to do wisdom are lost. Modern age has information and tools to process it, but not the methods and practices to deal with bias and self-delusion,

Perhaps those railing against high schools, colleges, and even post-graduate education, need to go back and deal with their *own* biases and self-delusions. The institutions and systems are there.

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