Debloating My NVIDIA Shields Freed Up RAM and Got the Ads Off the Home Screen
Four Shields across three hardware generations, 148 system packages disabled, every one reversible. The stock launcher was the largest process on all four, and replacing it cut that between 61% and 80%. Getting to that number took three wrong measurements first. The other win came from somewhere I wasn't looking: a TV tuner running 2016 firmware.
