>I don't have a smart phone (haven't felt like I needed one).
super off-topic but my phone and desktop both only have 4 gb of RAM. the phone seems to say "all right boys and girls we got 4 GB here let's try and make it work. Let's dust off these O() notations etc". meanwhile my mehsktop is like come on you're not really going to open another tab" and rolls it eyes at me, makes me feel like I should come back when I have 4 Tb of RAM and a 64-core monster. Right now I have 8 tabs open on my desktop and I feel like I need to be closing some. seeing the ;) sign instead of the tab count on mobile is no problem. (it does that over 100 tabs).
you might want to give mobile a try just because it's like not being treated like a second-class citizen anymore. (since your browser's devs don't have 64 GB on theirs either.) if you get a data plan the messenger apps (facebook messenger, whatsapp and viber) are very convenient as well.
I don't use any other apps daily except maps and evernote.
You have felt the need for more desktop RAM but haven't done so.
I haven't felt the need for a smart phone, and haven't done so.
These are different, yes?
FWIW, I've felt the need to not have a smart phone. My feature phone is small; I can drop it in just about any pocket. It's cheap; I've had four phones which ended up in the laundry (see 'just about any pocket'), and destroyed phones other ways, and $20/phone means I don't worry about it. And I love having a 1+ week charge time.
I feel sorry for you with only 4GB of RAM. Ive not had that little in either a personal PC or work PC in over 10 years. At work, I have 16 GB and at home 64 GB. Work, the problem is the size of the data sets I'm trying to work with. Pull all exposure factors from a vendor for a 2 year period? Yeah, I'm going to run out of memory. 10 years of daily, over 500 data points per date into a pandas DataFrame just doesn't work.
At home, a lot of the 64 GB goes towards running VMs amd actively disabling paging (don't want to burn out my SSD via heavy paging).
At previous job, also had 16 GB of RAM, could run out of memory by doing a large build under WSL. Apparently McAfee has any issue with WSL that leaks memory like a drive in manner that can only be reclaimed via a restart of the entire system.
super off-topic but my phone and desktop both only have 4 gb of RAM. the phone seems to say "all right boys and girls we got 4 GB here let's try and make it work. Let's dust off these O() notations etc". meanwhile my mehsktop is like come on you're not really going to open another tab" and rolls it eyes at me, makes me feel like I should come back when I have 4 Tb of RAM and a 64-core monster. Right now I have 8 tabs open on my desktop and I feel like I need to be closing some. seeing the ;) sign instead of the tab count on mobile is no problem. (it does that over 100 tabs).
you might want to give mobile a try just because it's like not being treated like a second-class citizen anymore. (since your browser's devs don't have 64 GB on theirs either.) if you get a data plan the messenger apps (facebook messenger, whatsapp and viber) are very convenient as well.
I don't use any other apps daily except maps and evernote.