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Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)
submitted 5 months ago by VITecNet@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's good practice for patching purposes. You should always be maintaining stable OS versions and a memory leak or the like is fairly uncommon. I think I've seen it once in my career on a particular check point OS version.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I'm more worried about keeping up on patches and ensuring things will start back up properly than memory leaks. But minor security and performance wins are nice too.