Oh sweet summer child…
I have a desktop icon that calls a script to stop waydroid session, then sleep a bit, then stop the waydroid service. I realize my phone is not going into suspend, so I try to restart and I see the dreadful “WAYDROID IS INHIBITING IDLE” message, and I want to jump off the window.
Then I try experimenting force quitting every single Android application and I still see the same problem.
Then I take my phone out of my bag. It is warm. 30% of the battery are gone. Then I fire terminal, launch top, run ps aux, and I conclude that there’s nothing out of the ordinary, so why is my phone warm?
Then I start troubleshooting it, dig into DBus shenanigans, curse the fates, and realize that I just hate modern software.
I hate that my stupid camera exposure application, that has literally 400 lines of C code and does less than 20 math operations on demand, launching literally 5 GTK Widgets, compiles to a multimegabyte binary and takes 15MB of RAM to run and takes 8 seconds to launch.
Then I look into the nightmares of systemds, dbuses and all the stupid crap that is everywhere, and why the hell does it take gigabytes of RAM to boot to desktop.
Then I turn my HP 712 60 MHz on, with nextstep 3.3, and I realize it is the most responsive computer I own. I launch a few text editor windows, spreadsheet, 3-4 SSH sessions, get my actual work done and hate every single operating system and computer released after year 2000.
Then I wonder whether it is too much to task that MY computer does what it is supposed to do. Open the stupid program, run it. Close ALL child processes when I am done. No telemetry. No background daemons. No bizarre interprocess communications. Be a tool. No “We are getting your computer ready”. Who is we? You are a stupid computer.
Give me a proper progress bar, show me what processes are running and what files are being written. Stop trying to pretend to be a stupid human. Be a tool. Let me do my job. Don´t load 10MB of code to show me 1KB of the text I actually want to read.
Then I realize what absurd it is that a phone with 4x 1.5GHz cores and 3GB struggles sometimes to scroll a few lines of text with a image, and I think: well, it is really not the phone.
Then I feel like moving to a cave and throwing every single electronic appliance I own out of the window, for disrespecting my time, my money and the environment.
and ugh, rant over.