Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 13 hours agoI 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.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 13 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?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 hour 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?
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Pretty damned fast, actually.
The rest of your excuses are pretty sad but I get it. Gotta protect what you support even if it’s based on outdated information.
To respond in kind, I offer this: You could always cut off the anti-virus subscription and sell your home PC to get that cheap tablet and keyboard.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
Nice troll m8
Try programming on a tablet, or playing any graphics heavy games, or really anything more than simple text editing or media consumption. It’s a shit experience.
Of course if your idea of PC ownership includes an anti-virus subscription, you should indeed limit yourself to devices that limit what you can do with them, as I have suspicions about your tech literacy.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 3 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.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Buddy, you sound so defensive typing this out on your phone while your PC sits all the way across the room.
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 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.
Hupf@feddit.org 6 hours ago
You do you, mate.
Euphoma@lemmy.ml 11 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
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Fair. But you also conceded that you can do it on a phone, just not as efficiently.
My comment specified “outside work.”
I think a lot of people downvoting and defending their PCs so . . . vociferously are just old and set in their ways. Not everyone is a programmer/coder.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
OP: pulls out phone “Ha HA LET ME SHOW YOU MY 30% completed POKéDEX
Bill: “I can store actual Pokémon here…
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 11 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.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Perhaps get some prescription glasses for your eyes so you can see screens better, mate.
I looked it up and you can save your JNCOs with Ceftriaxone or Levofloxacin. Check with your doctor, mon frère.