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Wow. Without a < 3 yo phone, it's not possible to switch between 2 apps without one of them being killed?

When I think about my atari 1040ST and what it could do with a single core running at a few Mhz and a few hundred kilobytes of RAM, it makes me realise how wrong we've gone with smartphones.

(before someone mentions it, I know that my atari didn't have wifi, couldn't play full HD videos, etc, and that it was harder to develop software for it, but still, something's off IMHO)



At least not with vanilla settings.


What phone and bank app is this? I have a 6 year old phone. I've never come across such issues.


Spanish BBVA and Triodos bank apps combined with Brave browser on a redmi with 4+2 GiB of ram.


I have a redmi note 4 (mido) and can definitely switch between apps just fine. About banking, since the law in France doesn't require you to have a smartphone (yet?), I pretended I have a dumbphone to my bank, so 2FA is SMS-based for payments, which is not awesome (why not standard TOTP?), but still better than having their crapware in my pocket all the time.


What does 4+2 GB mean? I tried googling Redmi 4+2 GB but it only returns Redmi 4 from 2017 that has only 2GB of ram. Surely that's not what you're talking about?




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