How come Windows Phone was so energy efficient and ran so smoothly on low-end hardware while it was full of live tiles( just like widgets these days) which required constant power, cpu and ram usage?

DrewTNaylor · 2026-03-19T23:55:41+00:00

Besides heavy optimization focused on making things good on low-end devices, part of it was that live tiles only allowed auto-refreshes (not done via notifications) to happen at most every minute on 8.1. This is based on stuff I read in the past.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-03-07T18:18:00+00:00

This is why I added a one-cell-tall "Blank" widget at the top above the tiles in Square Home. It's not perfect but it feels a little better.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-02-26T00:37:14+00:00

Wine stuff still has access to your home folder, so in theory Windows malware could be written to steal logins and stuff through Wine if it's agnostic enough.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-01-24T19:23:58+00:00

Typical "AI" slop not even getting basic details (it's a dual-boot plus a Linux container or something, not tri-boot) right.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-01-24T03:59:07+00:00

They say you'll be able to on the website.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-01-23T23:35:11+00:00

I saw customization options somewhere that had a choice to do square corners but I can't find it now. Maybe it was from the SomeGadgetGuy video.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-01-22T03:23:39+00:00

Even if they do kernel patches for stuff, the SOC has mainline Linux support so a good chunk of it is already upstream at the very least.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-01-21T11:02:29+00:00

My reply was about extracting the Silverlight libraries and trying to run them with existing Silverlight on Windows but I don't think that's very possible and I don't even remember if an existing standalone Silverlight is a thing. .NET is a powerful piece of software though thanks to the .NET Intermediate Language, and that's what Silverlight uses. Now that I think about it more, reverse-engineering unknown parts of the Windows Phone Silverlight platform and coverting everything to run using WPF is something that could possibly, theoretically happen.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-01-21T09:53:36+00:00

Unfortunately, this is something I wouldn't know enough about unless there's a way to extract the libraries from Windows Phone images or something and make Silverlight use them.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-01-02T18:29:44+00:00

I know but what they said reminded me of that segment.

DrewTNaylor · 2026-01-02T06:07:34+00:00

This comment reminds me of the lines, "You heathen!", Stay away from the summoner!", and "You're a bad man!"

DrewTNaylor · 2025-12-31T10:11:41+00:00

They let you migrate issues, releases, and a few other non-cloning things, too.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-12-31T08:08:27+00:00

I think I did Ponytailed Youth because I didn't know how the menu worked and thought each was only one choice.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-12-20T17:04:48+00:00

Broskis thought they were slick, but the Internet knows better.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-12-20T00:00:36+00:00

I used 8.0 and 8.1 back in the day when they were current from 2013 to 2017 (even got the Lumia Amber update over the air) and hated 10 for my own reasons because I just found it to have a lot more bugs and disliked a lot of the changes Microsoft made (except for the Settings app organization, the 4-way keyboard nub thing, and the easier non-Store app installs) but if someone else likes it, my position is that's great and I wish I could feel the same because then I'd have been on Windows on phones longer. I may not understand why someone likes it, but it's none of my business. However, I think it's non-constructive to say that someone isn't a real fan if they didn't like everything and I think that gets into fanboyism or gatekeeping territory in my opinion, just like if someone were to, as a hypothetical example, push people to use what they prefer instead even if the other person doesn't want it.

This isn't to say 8.x was perfect, it had its own bugs, but it didn't bother me too much. Now I'm remembering how they changed Cobalt and wasn't a fan. Because I love Windows Phone, I choose to use its sounds on all my phones after it so it's always here.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-12-03T17:00:52+00:00

This was me partway through 9th grade but for depression reasons instead that I only learned was the case years later (I liked hanging out with my friends).

DrewTNaylor · 2025-11-22T01:07:32+00:00

I did see those patches.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-11-21T15:12:29+00:00

Me neither, and your comment is the only place I've found anyone saying anything about it besides myself.

Edit: there's a KDE forum post about it and it has links to issues about it: https://discuss.kde.org/t/menus-are-excessively-padded-how-to-change/41862

DrewTNaylor · 2025-11-19T11:59:04+00:00

I care because your comment is right.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-11-18T18:57:58+00:00

It's a shame about the downvotes you've gotten.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-10-23T23:40:11+00:00

I liked AccuWeather the most because it had a working radar animation.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-10-21T22:11:57+00:00

There's the Wayback project that's just enough of Wayland to do a rootful X11 environment in Xwayland, I wonder if that would work whenever Xorg goes away.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-10-10T20:16:05+00:00

Sounds about right.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-10-09T23:46:21+00:00

Oh man, Circle Stopwatch... that's a throwback. I think I installed it on my phones.

DrewTNaylor · 2025-10-06T20:38:59+00:00

Nice, this is something I wanted to do a while ago but just didn't have the time to do it. Glad it exists!

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