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[Weekly thread] - Discuss anything related to Android - 27-08-2024 (lemdro.id)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Am I the only one who thinks that 16 gb RAM or more is too much for a phone if it's not for playing or hard tasks in general ? I think it's better for a PC/Laptop though

[–] Blaze 3 points 2 months ago

Probably too much indeed, but I stick to very basic tasks on my phone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the context of LLM its not. Multitasking and performance would suffer for these use cases.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because we all needed LLMs on our phones.

I can't see anyone outside of a extreme power user wanting this. People are unlikely to care.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

16GB ram is only available on the top end models of high end smartphones. Regular Instagram, Facebook users are not buying those Smartphones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

People who uses Instagram and Facebook, should buy 16GB RAM model and high-end processor. Those apps are resource hogs.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still there isn't much need for that much ram

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

with how badly programmed some Android applications are it isn't that outrageous, especially if someone wants to watch a movie and run multiple web scrapers in parallel in the background. Not everyone uses their phone the same way, and quite a few basically never use the calling or texting features that make it a phone.