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But also people relying on some services staying active may be totally hosed. Your foreground service is now time limited to what is it, 6 hours, 8 hours? Rath
by jauntywundrkind 2y ago
But also people relying on some services staying active may be totally hosed. Your foreground service is now time limited to what is it, 6 hours, 8 hours?
Rather than give users option to control, Android for the last sizable fraction of the decade has made its way by reducing possibilities & cutting options. More secure better battery, forever and ever, by turning down what is possible.
- xethos 2y agoI have a BlackBerry KeyOne (and Key2, and Key2LE). That will be my last Android, as far as I'm concerned. Due to background services getting killed, I'd miss messages through every Matrix client I tried. If I tell my OS to run a program, I expect it to run until I say otherwise or it runs out of resources. If I'm going to deal with much worse battery life anyways (compared to 2-3 days on my BB), I'm at least going to have a cheap device that's easy to repair, a 3.5mm jack, swappable battery, uSD card, and an OS that will do as I say. So I've moved on to a Pinephone Pro. It's less stable, but I am indescribably fed up with Android (or iOS) killing background tasks that I expect to run