Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

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<p>I've noticed a recurring problem on my Fairphone 4. When I use certain apps which load data from the internet, the app eventually gets into a state where no more data will load. I then restart the app and it works perfectly until it gets into the same state again.</p> <p>I've got so used to restarting apps to work around this issue that I hardly think of it. But for some apps, such as a newspaper app, it's quite annoying to have to scroll down, potentially a long way, to find an article I was attempting to read.</p> <p>This has happened on several apps including The Guardian app and Tusky (a Mastodon client). The symptoms are subtly different depending on the app, but I don't remember seeing a network error (unless that is masked by the apps).</p> <p>The Guardian displays a blank page instead of the article I've just tapped on. After restarting the app, the article is marked as read, but when I tap on it, it immediately displays.</p> <p>Tusky stays in its “loading” state when the issue occurs. After restarting the app, the content loads immediately.</p> <p>I've noticed the behaviour in other apps, but I can't remember the details.</p> <p>If you've also noticed this behaviour, please <a href="mailto:[email protected]">email me</a> at [email protected].</p> <p>[ <a href="https://underlap.org"><img alt="favicon" src="https://underlap.org/data/favicon.png"/></a> | <a href="https://underlap.org/about">about</a> | <a href="https://underlap.org/blogroll">blogroll</a> | <a href="https://underlap.org/contact">contact</a> | <a href="https://notes.underlap.org/all">notes</a> | <a href="https://underlap.org/now">now</a> | <a href="https://underlap.org/search">search</a> | <a href="https://underlap.org/license">©</a> | <a href="https://notes.underlap.org/feed/"><img alt="feed icon" src="https://underlap.org/data/feed-icon-14x14.png"/></a> ] </p>

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