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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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[–] Bobo@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Samsung phones have an option of scheduled autorestart; I have mine set to restart once every week at a scheduled time.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

LineageOS has this option too. The whole system crashes and restarts randomly once a week /s

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 10 points 5 months ago

Just once a week? They must be improving.