Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer

paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • kittykillinit@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I seriously get annoyed at the amount of work it takes to keep a PC running.

    ???

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then get a larger phone or a tablet and a keyboard. You have options that are infinitely more efficient and less annoying than babysitting a PC.

      At some point you must face the question: Are you using a PC because it’s how you’ve always done it?

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      • chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lmao. Buddy if you want to use a phone as a computer, no worries. But fuck all the way off with the idea that using a PC is difficult or less efficient than a phone. Get a grip on reality.

        “Babysitting a PC” you sound like you’re tech illiterate.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So how fast do you type on your phone? Because I can barely get 50 words per minute and even then my accuracy suffers… So that’s a third of the speed of a proper keyboard and way more typos.

        Why would I pay for a tablet and a keyboard to get a second super limited device as opposed to having a proper computer that can do anything I want it to?

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      • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I could do a lot of things I do on the daily on my phone. But it would be more finicky and annoying. I have automated pretty much all regular maintenance my PC needs long ago. I just don’t see what I’d get, except for more janck.

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You do you, mate.

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      • Euphoma@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Programming on phone is pretty terrible, I have spent a decent amount of time doing this and you kinda need to accept that a lot of regular dev programs on termux don’t work. And you also have to accept using the terminal for everything

        Being able to program with a mouse is pretty convinient for things like debugging

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      • Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        OP: pulls out phone “Ha HA LET ME SHOW YOU MY 30% completed POKéDEX

        Bill: “I can store actual Pokémon here…

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      • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I would, but I can’t fit a 32 inch screen in my pocket ever since I blew out the crotch on my JNCOs.

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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, Lemmy/rss and some light web browsing.

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  • Strive7307@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I seriously get annoyed at the amount of work it takes to keep a PC running.

    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 🥲

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    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You see all those things you just listed?

      Those are things you hardly ever worry about or whose existence you completely forget about when you ditch a PC.

      Your computer is an annoying child you never parented.

      Wanna boot it up? Better wait for a minute or two. Oh! Now it needs an update because something went wrong last night when it was supposed to automatically do it.

      Oops! Lost internet connection. Better go pecking around menus.

      Shit. It’s acting up still. Your game you’re trying to play is losing frames. Something to do with heat management. Something about a graphics card? Who frigging knows, better ask the internet from a phone.

      P.S. Your antivirus is out of date and you need money to renew your subscription. The process will take another few hours of your time because you have to babysit it past all the AI that’s sure to get in the way.

      Bah! Humbug!

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      • chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Holy fuck I wish I had read this comment first. You are actually an idiot of the highest order.

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      • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Can introduce you to our lord and savior Debian? All your troubles will go away when you accept Linux into your heart.

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