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Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by ChrisClark on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:09PM (#8403370)
Yeah, people still recommend automatic task killers for Android and it has never been useful, just harmful on speed and battery life.
Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by MichaelGG on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:16PM (#8403402)
Huawei even builds this nonsense into the OS! The Mate 2 (which is neat because I get 30+hours battery) has this stupid easy-to-hit button on the app switch page that terminates everything. Despite my usage never going below a GB free, it gleefully proclaims "XXX MB freed!" Well shit, I can go buy a 1GB SODIMM and leave it on my desk and always have 1GB free.
Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by kristopolous on Friday October 03, 2014 @03:17AM (#8404594)
"Automatic"? Or do you mean an application that makes killing tasks fewer taps?

Because the latter isn't that bad ... I have apps misbehave about twice a week; chrome, skype, yelp, google voice - they all need an occasional fresh start - a convenient way to do that I don't understand the objections against.