Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m...
by pavlov on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:14PM
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Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr etc. are also battery hogs. The Facebook app is no worse and generally better (IME).
Scrolling through a social media feed is a heavy activity on a phone (which may be surprising because it seems passive). Constantly fetching more data from servers, decoding incoming images and videos in background threads, shuffling data to GPU-accessible buffers for fast scrolling, etc. — There’s a lot going on all the time when you’re scrolling mindlessly.
Scrolling through a social media feed is a heavy activity on a phone (which may be surprising because it seems passive). Constantly fetching more data from servers, decoding incoming images and videos in background threads, shuffling data to GPU-accessible buffers for fast scrolling, etc. — There’s a lot going on all the time when you’re scrolling mindlessly.