Is there anything I can do about this extremely vague block of data that’s taking up 30% of my phone’s storage? Mind you, this isn’t the operating system itself, as that’s listed as its own category.

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    3 days ago

    how does that mean it’s not true for RAM tho? caching is about the time it takes to (compute and) load things into the RAM and RAM r/w operations are pretty much always faster than disk

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      3 days ago

      Because the people that say “unused RAM is wasted RAM” have zero understanding of what file caching is and think that RAM only includes program data.

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        file caching is making use of unused ram which is what people mean by “unused ram is wasted ram”. you are saying the same thing.