Yes, I'm this old
Yes, I'm this old
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I just want to find the best price for the most quality, and I'm not about to do extensive research on a screen the size of a coffee cup
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This is it exactly. Touch screen interfaces feel too clunky or imprecise to quickly search for a lot of stuff. Maybe it’s because there is an animation between every action like switching tabs it’s not a quick thing to do and multiple on screen windows is not an option.
My phone is for chatting, videos, and Lemmy/mastodon.
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Yes, but for some of us a laptop is too expensive for something that isn't a necessity rush. Phones are also quite expensive, but are nearly required in today's society.
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I think for probably close to a decade now, the phones I've bought have consistently been more expensive than the laptops I've bought... and I don't buy expensive phones.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. This meme is correct but most activity happens on phones these days because most of the world can't afford more than one device.
It's also why phones, including cheap ones are so oversized :(( If it's your only device, you don't want a small one
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I want a big screen so I don’t miss the fine print, terms and conditions, opt-ins, opt-outs, and hidden fees they’re hoping I won’t notice. On a small screen, it’s too easy to scroll past that shit. I wouldn’t be surprised if web pages were deliberately formatted in a way that makes those things easy to miss, while just barely staying within the bounds of the law.
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This.
Plus, if you need to check the price on multiple airlines or services, switching back and forth between multiple tabs is so much easier on a laptop (or even...a desktop with multiple monitors gasp, clutching pearls).
Plus plus, it's so much faster and easier to type in all your info on a real keyboard (or maybe that's just me showing my age)
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In addition, I want to use tools like Seat Guru to know if there are serious issues with the seat I'm about to choose. And, with a lot of those tools it's easiest if you have the booking website open next to the tool (say Seat Guru) website. If you have to switch back and forth you need to remember details like "it's seat 26A on a 737-MAX". If you can have both open side-by-side you can glance from one window over to the other one.
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That certainly makes you a certain type of person, but I think the type transcends the generations
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Nah I just need to be able to press tab when filling out fields
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Typing on a phone is horrible. If I need to fill any kind of form, it's happening on a computer.
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Most importantly, phones are shitto compare stuff. Or multitask.
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Currently using scrcpy but beforebthat I got so pissed off with texting on my phone that I would have a text file synced to my phone with syncthing and farted about with copying & pasting it on my phone. Gnna have another go at getting gsconnect working in Gnome tho. Fuck phones though, for many reasons.
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A lot of mobile sites are so awful to use and laggy I am convinced companies behind them don't want you to use them too.
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It's actually the opposite. They're laggy because they have so much bloat to track you, to advertise to you, to steal your identity - they absolutely want you to use them.
Also Desktop users are far more likely to use an ad blocker. Breaks most of the bloat.
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Yep. Images are better, text isn’t as hidden, form fill is better on a desktop browser. It’s just better on a desktop with a big screen.
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It isn't the screen that is the reason, it is being able to use keyboard and mouse
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And since they said laptop they possibly mean shitty keyboard and shitty trackpad. Desktop ftw.
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Only if you buy a shitty laptop. This is why I only buy old Thinkpad T-series (that and awesome Linux compatibility)
Hell the keyboard case for my OnePlus Pad is better than some cheap laptop keyboards.
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I will only send SMS on a mainframe running kdeconnect.
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I do it with an even shittier folding keyboard & trackpad, on my phone, plugged into a monitor. COME AT ME
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The bigger the purchase, the bigger the screen required. I’ll buy a cheeseburger on my watch. If I ever buy a house, I’ll need a jumbotron.
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Houses have to be done in person so the screen is both your eyeballs.
Even though it's far harder to read through 7,000 pages of legalese you have no ability to read regardless. Can't Ctrl+F 'First born child'.
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I could probably put up all 7,000 pages on my jumbotron.
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If the same shit keeps happening, they will never let you buy a house!
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Always book flights in private mode, the shit they do with cookies is insane
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Wasn't that workaround proven not to work?
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It’ll work to some degree, but with retailers using price discrimination they’ll give you prices based on many factors that they think will get them the most money.
Also consider:
- iPhones and MacBooks are an indicator of wealth, crank up those prices
- location is another significant indicator. Live in the Bay Area? You rich, you can probably afford higher prices. Bay Area MacBook? Chriiiiist gonna rinse you dry.
- browser fingerprinting bypasses cookies and is the same in incognito and regular tabs.
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Prolly, you have any documentation?
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what about the firefox tab containers?
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Big Purchases need big price-compares that are best suited for The Big Screen
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Extra tabs help a lot
My reason is that I'm less likely to make a mistake on the computer.
- larger screen
- physical keyboard and actual mouse
- no chance of a random call or notification covering half the screen
Or more simply
- its easier to do things on the computer, so sensitive tasks are easier to do on the computer
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Making any purchase in my phone gives me anxiety. But the true psychopaths buy shit over the smart TV / fire stick, especially with one click purchases. Or Alexa... shudders
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I can sort of understand smart TV assuming its an app like Amazon but Alexa? Fucking Alexa buying shit that you simply ask with no visual confirmation? That is undebatable psychopathic behaviour. I heard about asking Alexa to add something to shopping cart like a notepad but never knew it can actually buy things for you.
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Alexa is dangerous, too. Friends and I were on discord and a friend of mine uses speakers for his audio. Well, we found out how Alexa could hear us and, the natural next step was for me to shout out "Alexa, order me 100 diaper wipes!" And other fun things and it did it. He was able to shout back to cancel it (I presume from his kitchen or bathroom, it sounded distant). That was fun, haha (and he's a good sport, he thought it was funny and promptly turned that feature off).
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My dad used to speak louder when the person on the other end of the phone was calling from further away geographically. I remember coming home from school once and he was screaming into the phone because his friend had called from Canada.
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Was your father a Navy vet? The Navy has/(had?) voice powered phones on the ships, so that was literally how it worked. The farther away the other phone was, the louder you had to shout.
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That's interesting. He wasn't in the navy but his first job was passing tools to telecoms engineers in the 60s. Maybe they were using something similar...
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The phones were powered by voice? Wasn't it just that the amplifiers weren't very good.
Technically yeah your voice has power because it's moving air around, but it's a microscopic amount of energy. If you hold a piece of paper up in front of your mouth and just speak normally it will barely move, even if you yell it hardly goes anywhere. There's more energy in a calm breeze.
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My dad still does this. He yells into the phone (on speaker) as if he was screaming for his life. He's a successful businessman whose sole job is to talk to people and somehow convince them to work together or win a project over. I don't know how he does this by yelling into his phone as if he was shouting at strangers to call an ambulance. He also has hardly any knowledge of English and his German really sucks, yet he mostly works with these two languages. I don't know how he makes it work. And he hates talking on the phone because it stresses him out. But somehow addressing the fact he is trying to make crocodile dundee hear him when he uses a phone doesn't seem to be the answer to his stress.
He grew up in a remote soviet village with like one phone for everyone. My guess is the connection back in the days sucked and he never adjusted.
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This is likely an unconscious throwback to his youth.
I grew up on an acreage that still had older phone lines. And long distance used to be super spotty at times. Speaking louder used to be literally necessary to get past the static and interference in long distance calls.
It's amazing how far communications have come even since the 80s when I was a kid.
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Yes, he did!
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There was a podcast where a host said she realized she was no longer the target market when she booted up the laptop to go to a certain store. She realized it was phone app only.
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Oof. That had to hurt.
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You need a real computer to do real work.
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If you had seen the birth and growth of Android from its early days to now, you'd be leery about relying on phones for anything involving three figures or more, too.
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I don't even like doing stuff on a laptop. That's what desktops are for. Desktops == real and important computer tasks... and gaming. LAPTOPS == paid work and .... like watching netflex when I'm on business trips. phone == ... toilet time internet browsing? Phones aren't good for much.
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I use a desktop and a tablet. Work laptop doesnt count. My phone is just a camera, I have a smart watch with a data plan for nfc paying, texting, weather, etc.
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big screen
laptop
smh
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When I was young, you'd go to the travel agent to book your flight and they'd fill in your ticket by hand. And we liked it that way! Now get off my lawn, damn kids!
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Yup, because your phone is a walking data leak.
Type in "houses for sale near me" and watch your adverts change for the next week _
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You still get advertisements on your phone?
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Firefox and ublock origin - but I'm still paranoid ;)
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I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
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The bigger the purchase the more tabs I have open, and I'm not trying to switch between 30 tabs on a phone.
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Same but also bill pay
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You are IL hands IL heaven IL?
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I am not, it just describes me.
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That's crazy. The only things I like my laptop for are when I need to do enough typing to require keyboard, or I'm doing something that a split screen is good for. I'm in my mid 30s,and I feel this isn't unusual among my friends
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Yeah but usually for booking flights I need multiple tabs on different search sites, plus a calendar and other details up at the same time.
If it's a simple itinerary sure, do it on the phone.
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Clicking through tabs is easier for me on my phone, honestly. It's entirely possible that I haven't had complicated travel to deal with like you have
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I need multiple browsers, each with their own separate private browsing window, looking at different sites via VPNs to separate countries.
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Then I’m positively prehistoric. I’d rather book flights with a travel agent.
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People question you but there's actually some good reasons. My first international flight as a teen was via travel agent and they managed to get me a $300 promotional ticket to Japan (usual price $800 at that time). They even hooked me up with a train pass, too.
That, and I read that any multi-destination trip can benefit from an agent, usually saving more than you spent on the agent. My guess is the train passes and things like that can also help a ton.
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What's a travel agent
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When I had to book flights, car rentals, and hotels at my last job, I did anything I could to just do it straight through the Delta or Hilton apps. Trying to use Concur was a nightmare. I could be done in a couple minutes and it isn't like I don't already have the corporate codes added to the respective apps. Saves the same amount of money and cuts out the shitty "travel agency". As a millennial, the more I can do on my phone in the least amount of time the better. There are always exceptions, but booking travel is something I would rather do on my phone.
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Trying to use Concur was a nightmare
The amount of bribe money that must be going to various leadership teams at large corporations to get them to pick Concur must be insane. It's such a terrible system, no one would willingly select it.
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My employer will throw a fit if you don't use the shitty booking service.
All reimbursements go through Concur in the end anyway, so there's no escaping it. I'm not eating the $2,000 after being forced to socialize for an entire week.
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This guy travels for business. I think the worst thing about having to go through apps is if you need to send a travel request it's nearly impossible on an app. Otherwise apps the way to go
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Laptop? No way. Desktop for big spends, with a minimum of two monitors 🙂
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Get out of here with that 2 monitor nonsense.
Must be at least 3 monitors.
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I did say /minimum/ 😀
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Look, zoomers are watching porn in their phones. I think our millenial quirky traits are just plain better.
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I know better than to use a phone with any card input. Phones are the tool of the NSA. They might watch what I watched once but I'll pirate that shit on my comp ty.
I don't think it's age. I think it doesn't matter how old you are. There are plenty of suckers on all generations.
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Me, I'm like, well, I could buy the train tickets on the app. But that'd require opening the bank app simultaneously to authorise the payment, and it's a bit fiddly (it didn't work reliably on my shitty phone a decade ago, it does work these days). Soooo I'll buy the tickets on laptop and run the bank app on the phone.
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yall are using phones?
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Black People Twitter
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I did most of my home purchase on my phone.
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Also, Android are more vulnerable to malware and viruses. I make purchases on Linux.
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I can't afford plane tickets and I'd have nowhere to go anyways. I am 7 parallel universes ahead of you, or maybe behind. Doesn't make much of a difference when it comes to parallel universes. I also don't purchase stuff on my phone period. I am not overly fond of smartphones. A computer is simply better at anything, but that means you have to be know how. Take typing for instance, if you aren't a fast typer on a keyboard, then this won't be an advantage to you. I bet loads of people can write faster on their phone than on a computer, but if you can type fast on a computer, a phone can't hold a candle to it.
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Not simply better at anything, for instance power efficiency, usually mobile devices use an arm architecture which is more efficient than x86.
Plus a phone is much more portable than a pc regardless of whether it may be a laptop or a desktop.
You could always just get a keyboard and plug it into a phone.
A phones touch screen keyboard is okay, i type at over 100wpm, so sure a physical keyboard is superior, especially since autocorrect isn't on by default on a pc.
If you take the phone and connect it to a monitor and keyboard n mouse setup, what's the advantage of the pc over that setup?
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Millennials claiming to be “old” is exactly the same as a preteen being eight and a half!
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Bruh, millenials are entering middle age.
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Oh I’m aware. 40 going on 90.
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Am I an old millenial because I have a desktop and find even a laptop too restrictive?
Phone = small
Tablet = medium
Desktop = big
Laptop = worst mashup of everything
laptops are great when you need to be mobile with your set up, lugging an entire PC back and forth between places is a bit of a chore yk
Nah depends. On laptop. Decent specs and 15,6" screen is really great if you're out of your house. But if there is a pc next to it that is better of course. I would say tablet is the worst of everything. Big ass phone with noe real features over phoke except larger screen. What the fuck you even do with that except browse internet? Laptop on the other hand has bunch of io ports and can be used for engineering work and with cars and for programming
When do we finally get phones with a full Linux OS that you can plug into a docking station with monitors, keyboard and mouse attached?
I've been waiting for this for 15 years.
I'm in my 40's and haven't bought a laptop yet. The need has never come up. I do purchases and all serious browsing on my desktop because big monitor and good focused seating position. Every time I have somehow had to use a laptop has been uncomfortable. They are slow, the screen is too small, pointing and clicking takes forever unless you connect a mouse, the ergonomics is just terrible.
I love my laptop
I am a young Gen X and i am the same way.
Young Gen X is starting to become an oxymoron. I’m there too.
Back in the 90s my grandpa had the webtv. He said his computer monitor was too small. We thought he was a fucking lunatic.
He was a fucking lunatic. The TV screen may have been physically larger, but the resolution was shit and the WebTV's browser was shit.
Same. I ended up getting a laptop with a docking station and it's a decent compromise.
Coward. Build your own PC and you can have every everything for half the price (especially if you can get your work to issue you a laptop and docking station for work stuff)
Yeah, I have a desktop for the heavy lifting and phone for whatever on the go. Laptop just feels like an unfortunate compromise.
Desktops are the most restrictive, the ONLY way to use it to say at some desk or whatever. I can use my laptop anywhere inside the house, outside the house, around the house, under the house, on the couch, on the stairs, in my bed, in the car, sitting, standing, walking, hanging upside down, lying, crying, flying or dying.
I have a desktop because I find a laptop too restrictive (but I don't really game or anything) and I book travel on my phone
this only makes sense to me if your laptop screen is like 480p
UI end up using my phone more than my pc now a days and I don't own a tablet or laptop. Why would I want either of those things?Having a physical keyboard might let you spell the word "I" correctly, for one.
If you don't want a laptop that's fine, more power to you. That said, you can at least acknowledge that many people would be able to perform some tasks much faster and more reliably with a laptop.