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Your Phone is an Entire Computer
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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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It’s me. Outside work, I dumped PCs a decade back and have lived a much better digital life.
I seriously get annoyed at the amount of work it takes to keep a PC running.
I hate using a phone. It's small, the screen is tiny, the keyboard sucks (all touchscreen keyboards suck), you can't have more than one thing in the tiny screen at a time (yes split screen exists and Android has freeform windows, but they suck even more).
A desktop is a breeze to use. It feels liberating to use after being on a phone.
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I mainly just turn mine on. Not a lot of work.
I mean, it's been a lot of work lately because I'm learning a new OS and mucking about with shuffling some data around on a couple different drives, but for the last 5 years or so, the "work" involved in keeping my desktop running was mainly plugging it in again after moving to a new apartment.
Ugh sounds like my nightmare. I try to keep the phone away and only use desktops or laptops. I just use the phone for calls, texts, photos when I don't have a better camera, Lemmy/rss and some light web browsing.
Sir this is a Lemmy's
Can you elaborate more on that? In my experience unless you set up a complicated NAS or home server setup maintaining a personal computer doesn’t require much upkeep. I prefer it over a phone because of the physical keyboard and superior window / tab / organization options.
PS: Wrote this comment from my phone anyway 🥲