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most phones now don’t support memory expansion

Well of course not. If phones supported memory expansion you would just buy more memory, instead of buying an entirely new phone Don’t even get me started on how bloated these apps have become. I used Paperclip word processor on a Commodore-64; you can not convince me that your app needs to be 50+ Megs in size.

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01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You can’t compare (what is arguably) the pique of human computing to modern phones.

…I miss the c64

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btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I actually wrote my own text editor for the C-64

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nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
And that’s one of the benefits from open source apps. I have a very low end and dated phone, and yet I have more apps installed and hardware functionality than the average person, because I grab everything I can from f-droid. It’s amazing how much smaller and performant everything is.

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- Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Have you looked at Obtainium? It pulls apps directly from their release page, or f-droid repos.
  
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  - nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I see people mentioning obtainium, but never tried it. Will it give some relevant benefits over fdroid for low end devices?
    
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