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Re:Fuck Cloud Messaging by Angostura on Sunday September 13, 2020 @12:44PM (#24462060)
I imagine without restrictions on background working most people's phones would be busily mining cryptocurrency by now.
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Re:Fuck Cloud Messaging by hal9000-tng on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:05PM (#24463538)
Why couldn't the OS simply surface a push notification of its own, that app X is consuming lots of CPU?
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Re:Fuck Cloud Messaging by yencabulator on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:01PM (#24465042)
And have such malware figure out the threshold, and throttle themselves just slightly under it.
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Re:Fuck Cloud Messaging by wayneftw on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:13PM (#24471871)
Then give us a control to adjust the threshold.
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Re:Fuck Cloud Messaging by stevenwliao on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:46PM (#24475506)
How many end users prefer to adjust their phone background CPU activity alert threshold just so that some developers can use a different push notification framework?
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