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
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
Typing on a phone is horrible. If I need to fill any kind of form, it's happening on a computer.
Most importantly, phones are shitto compare stuff. Or multitask.
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.
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.
Or they want me to use the app🤮
downloads the "app"
looks inside
web wrapper
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.
It isn't the screen that is the reason, it is being able to use keyboard and mouse
And since they said laptop they possibly mean shitty keyboard and shitty trackpad. Desktop ftw.
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.
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.
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'.
Always book flights in private mode, the shit they do with cookies is insane
Big Purchases need big price-compares that are best suited for The Big Screen
Extra tabs help a lot
My reason is that I'm less likely to make a mistake on the computer.
Or more simply
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
You need a real computer to do real work.
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.
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.
Yup, because your phone is a walking data leak.
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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!
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
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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