big screen
laptop
smh
Big can be defined in terms of resolution.
I guarantee someone out there has a 13" laptop screen with 4k resolution and scaling disabled. You can fit a lot of flights onto that
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I’ve never spent less than $500 on a laptop, and I’ve never spent more than $500 on a phone. I buy both refurbished.
Am I an old millenial because I have a desktop and find even a laptop too restrictive?
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.
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
thats why i have a streaming server on my desktop. the laptop feels crazy fast if i have good internet on the go, at the much lower cost of a desktop.
I’ve had a windows tablet for this reason.
It’s great if I’m at home and want something compact to watch stuff in bed, but I can also grab it in a backpack with a low profile keyboard and mouse and now I have the weight of something like a netbook but more powerful.
there’s still the niche of people who work with graphics who need to be mobile (a lot of photographers & filmmakers, and quite the number of people who work with 2D & 3D graphics).
powerful laptops are not something bad, you’re just not the target audience
Oh for sure, I am not questioning the need for more powerful tablets if it fits your work/life style.
I do think that a lighter weight tablet would probably be better for a lot of people who don’t necessarily need GPU tasks/intensive CPU tasks on the go.
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
What the fuck you even do with that except browse internet?
Binge-watch Stargate while sitting 7 hours in a train.
Solid use case 👍.
Exactly right. Big laptops are great. My desktop monitors are even more bigasser
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.Nope, Tablets are the worse of all worlds.
Can’t run a proper OS for getting things done, too big to make phone calls on.
Attaching a keyboard and mouse to one is basically saying what you really need is a laptop.
Phone = small, always attached screen.
Laptop = medium, portable screen that conveniently comes with keyboard and mouse
Desktop = large, multiple screens, for srsbsns
I love my laptop
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.
Yes, because only people on phones or other devices without a physical keyboard make typos. And you have definitely never ever made a mistake in your life. Right?
It was just an offhand joke that I couldn’t resist, no offense intended. I guess quick access to emoji to convey tone is one point for phones!
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)
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.
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.
We use those for work and I’m happy in general, but why the fuck must they “innovate” by swapping Ctrl and Fn???
It’s such a shitty design choice that messes my workflow every time I go from dock with a normal keyboard to using the laptop alone.
You can soft-swap their location in bios settings.
Old thinkpads have a tiny shitty trackpad and the keyboard isn’t that good.
Which keyboard you talking about here? The epic IBM Thinkpad keyboard that Lenovo replaced with chicklets around the T430/530 era? The best laptop keyboard ever?
I do it with an even shittier folding keyboard & trackpad, on my phone, plugged into a monitor. COME AT ME
I will only send SMS on a mainframe running kdeconnect.
You need a real computer to do real work.
Always book flights in private mode, the shit they do with cookies is insane
Wasn’t that workaround proven not to work?
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.
OK, so you should spoof your hardware to get the best prices? And use a VPN to poor city?
Prolly, you have any documentation?
what about the firefox tab containers?
Look, zoomers are watching porn in their phones. I think our millenial quirky traits are just plain better.
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.
Typing on a phone is horrible. If I need to fill any kind of form, it’s happening on a computer.
Also my computer doesn’t auto"correct".
My phone also doesn’t, because it can be turned off.
That’s great, but there’s a reason autocorrect is more prevalent on phones than on computers, that being that input it not as precise, and when precision for inputs is important (like in buying flight tickets), I just prefer the computer.
Not that I haven’t bought tickets on the phone in my life. Just feels safer on computer
Laptop? No way. Desktop for big spends, with a minimum of two monitors 🙂
Get out of here with that 2 monitor nonsense.
Must be at least 3 monitors.
I did say /minimum/ 😀
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.
Also Desktop users are far more likely to use an ad blocker. Breaks most of the bloat.
Firefox mobile app ftw
They don’t want you to use the website they want you to download their crappy app which has no actual additional features over the website except they can track you more.
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.
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’.
I could probably put up all 7,000 pages on my jumbotron.
If the same shit keeps happening, they will never let you buy a house!
yall are using phones?
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
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.
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).
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!
