[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] timpster:
This old device is getting more support from Kaijones23 than my much pricier Lenovo tablet. Now if only I could revive my old Motorola Xoom.

Has anyone attempted to use Termux on 20.0? I'm having trouble keeping the app active, but I'm not sure if it's due to the hardware, or if downgrading to an earlier version (like. 14.1) would solve the issue.

L20 runs like frozen molasses mixed with ****.

I can't even load a youtube video for more than 5 minutes. At that point, if it's just audio, I'd be fine, but the video freezes with the sound still going. Then, double tapping to skip backwards or forwards causes it to completely freeze. This necessitates force closing the browser (fennec) as well as closing that tab as it usually doesn't reload properly ever.

I also cannot view forums that have too much javascript. On "linus tech tips" forum, under off topic, there is a thread titled "what games do you play" and in that thread are steam widgets. It's so bad I cannot even scroll the page, there are TEN SECOND DELAYS to update jumps in the scrolling then the tab loses out to android's low memory killer, which doesn't seem to be properly responding to an echo command:

echo 1,2,3,4,5,6 > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree

Maybe this thread will help the rom creator:

Tuning the oom killer / low memory killer

Disclaimer: Changing the values listed in this post may and will affect the stability of your device, and can lead into unusable state or data loss. Fiddle with the settings at your own risk. I have a Sony Xperia 10 III and I’m suffering a lot from different kinds of things, which I assume are...

forum.sailfishos.org

You know what would really be nice, is a warning label on devices with INTENTIONALLY inadequate memory, warning that is a plan to force a device to be unusable at both launch and will get significantly worse as time elapses. That's fantasy land though. 1,400 MB is a JOKE. It's not even half of 4GB, which is genting to be not quite enough for newer games and even having just a few browser tabs open. This is what happens when there is both a lack of regulation, because I now believe most companies are run by literal sociopaths, combined with consumers with both a lack of tech education, and are unwilling to learn as well.

Tweaking LMK values just doesn't do anything helpful.

I use a firewall to use dns redirection to stop the web from being a pile of **** with youtube links thrown into forums and web pages when I have zero desire at that moment to access those websites. Noscript isn't enough as the websites IP will be resolved, wasting network resources.

I don't want to be bullied or dictated as to what domains are connected to from MY device. Ever. I should have 100% TOTAL control of that, at all times, in fact, I think it should be illegal to attempt to deny a human being that right, and it should be a right. But we aren't there yet. Facebook, google, youtube, and whatever websites I don't specifically choose to access should not be loading along side other websites, without consent from the user requesting access to a website.

To give a specific example, LinusTechTips forum loads ytimg 1, 2, 3, 4. Well, I'm not on youtube, I'm on a forum, so why the hell would I want to connect to youtube at that time? If you REALLY care about this stuff, it doesn't mako sense to just let anything and everything load with no cares given.

So it's seemingly impossible to keep RethunkDNS open, and I just updated Fennec to v122 and that made things even worse. I can't even load ANY website (even a website I haven't been to before, with no javascript allowed in noscript) without it causing rethinkdns to close as the page is loading or right as it finishes. So I turn off wi-fi because I want control over my network egress, I force close rethink dns to fully refresh it, reopen it, allow it to say "protected" in blue font, enable wifi again, and then, switch back to fennec.

When I do that, I'm lucky if the tab stays open, many times I'll just forget it, leave wi-fi off until I'm done reading what I can on that page. Forums like discourse make that hard as it only loads about 9 posts before it needs wifi. If you get to the end of the available posts loaded so far in a discourse thread and don't have wifi on still, you're stuck completely until you entirely reload that thread, then, since you have wifi off, it wasn't able to save your place so you'll have to scroll down again to where you were, having wifi enabled and load the next set of posts.

I can't do any of this and keep rethinkdns active. I can see the lock icon for android vpn disappear and reappear thirty times or more as I type this (and no I'm not exaggerating) indicating rethinkdns somehow relaunched itself and then was killed again by android lmk.

That doesn't work because rethinkdns doesn't get to the protected state when wifi is on. It must be off, enable rethinkdns, see protected, then enable and connect to wifi. If rethinkdns gets killed by android LMK, then this process must be repeated verbatim.

It is now to the point that ANY website I load will cause rethinkdns to close, limiting my freedom to control the network requests that leave my device.

I also am completely unable to have a podcast, either in spotify or antennapod, and rethinkdns, and a singular browser tab open. The podcast, or music, from either pandora or spotifp just stops after maybe twenty seconds. This device should have never been allowed to be manufactured with non-user upgradable system memory, forcing and encouraging and promoting known and intentional planned device obsolescence.

Amazon is awful and Jeff Bezos will get to keep all his billion of dollars off the backs of slave labor mining minerals, who live in basically unlivable conditions, where the children have birth defects and who knows what else, as the toxic, poisonous environment is the only work they have available to feed their families. There's videos about it all over youtube. Just type in congo mineral mining. You'll think a few times before upgrading to a tablet with more memory.

Let's fight these sociopaths with software optimization and keep this hardware functional for as long as we can. I've already got a beautiful line down my screen no be able to run this software, I'm physically invested and what like my efforts to me worthwhile, and those of the rom developer as well.

Fight the power!

Fight the powers that be!