I use a desktop or laptop computer almost daily in my personal life. Mobile devices are terrible for actual productivity. And security. And usability.
Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?
Submitted 1 year ago by IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
And security
Disagree.
Sure, privacy wise, you can say that they are terrible (freedom wise, they are not great either). But Security? Phones are probably the most secure devices (as long as you keep them updated). Verified Boot, Sanboxing for every app, Strict Permission Control, Default Encryptions, Limiting Password attempts per X amount of time, to make brute force difficult, and can even attempt to wipe itself if too many incorrect password entry. Even if an app is malicious, all you need to do is uninstall it and most of the time they do not persist.
Most desktop installations require admin or sudo permissions, one malicious program/package and you gotta wipe clean and reinstall.
satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cameras and microphones that have no physical disconnect. Virtual keyboards. NSA subsidies for cheap phones sold in poor areas. Zero visibility or access to OS components without special steps.
Windows let users install and run any junk binary to their appdata folder by default. That’s why cryptolocker got real popular around 2010. Granted this isn’t supporting my point, but admin is not required in a lot of instances.
I guess I’m saying I disagree with your disagreement. Non-mobile is far more secure. My desktop and laptops do all of the stuff you listed as mobile capabilities.
phanto@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I volunteer at the public library. Almost all the people who come in are phones only, and totally lost on a PC. They come in to fill out gov’t PDFs that won’t open on their phones and to print stuff out. My classmates, in the IT program (!) have a lot of trouble navigating on their laptops, and only a couple of us have desktops at all.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Who goes into IT without knowing how to use a computer?
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I work with a number of developers who don’t know how to find and edit a file on their computer.
Literally.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I know someone who just started studying game development. No prior programming experience required. I guess that’s not a problem as long as you do your homework properly.
Zink@programming.dev 1 year ago
Probably the old assumption “there’s money in computers” is still guiding some people into the wrong field.
tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
People hear that it’s a higher paying office job that has a low barrier for entry, not realizing that continuing education and constant learning are mandatory. If you don’t have a passion for it, you struggle.
phanto@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I ask myself that on a regular basis.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Lemmy is not the demographic to ask this question. You’re definitely skewed towards using a desktop/laptop here.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m all software/data engineer, so for work I obviously use a computer all the time. I also have a very nice personal computer but it doesn’t get as much use anymore as it used to. I play the occasional game on it, use it for tracking our budget/finances and stuff once a month, manage my plex server, and do the occasional random task on it that requires things like typing or photo editing. But it’s not been getting a lot of attention since I finished school, even less since having my daughter.
My phone is my main device for most of my entertainment, web surfing, news reading, banking, etc. plus it keeps my todos/shopping lists, my wife and I’s shared calendar, my alarms, digital coupons for groceries, GPS… all of my regular day to day task helpers. Not to mention is takes and stores my photos, allows me to call and text people, and gives me mobile access to my cloud files and services. It’s definitely my primary device.
But I still love me computer and wish I had more time to do my own work on it.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Mostly desktop, at least at home. I have 3 laptops and a desktop at work. Phone is for googling, doomscrolling, music, and light reading.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I work from home, so I have a decent setup in my office involving a MacBook Pro and two monitors.
I also have an iPad that I draw with and when I’m not drawing on it I hook it to my soundbar and play music and podcasts while I work.
Phone all of the rest of the time.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People are responding personally in this thread, which does not answer the actual question being asked. Lemmizens are very far from most people.
I’d be shocked if most people had PCs any more - at best, an old laptop to lug out for “paperwork.”
paequ2@lemmy.today 1 year ago
My wife heavily uses her smartphone. Like, she’ll work on spreadsheets on her phone instead of grabbing her laptop.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I cannot imagine working on spreadsheets on a smartphone. I’m getting a stress headache thinking about it.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I can. Also, the headache is 100% real.
A mobile phone is for emergency calculations only. If your life, job or honor depends on it, you can make it work, but it’s going to suck sooo hard.
A tablet can do much more as long as you have a keyboard. Also, Apple Numbers and Google Sheets are just barely acceptable for light calculations, nothing more.
When you start doing anything even a little bit more demeaning, you really need to use a laptop. Even the browser version of Excel isn’t good enough. You really need to run the actual application.
MdRuckus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use my iPhone and MacBook equally. It is extremely rare that I use my actual tv.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I use my computer for pretty much everything but I have a projector so that shit is up on my wall.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Desktop computer mainly, sometimes a laptop. Tablets are painful to use IMO
seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Phone is for work only. Tower PC for everything else.
I’m probably an outlier.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 year ago
m8 literally everyone on the fediverse is an outlier 😅
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
My thoughts exactly. The number of Linux users and programmers here may distort the picture OP gets from these comments.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The blue collar people I know only use a phone for personal computing, I have a spare laptop I lend to co workers so they can complete CBT and badging if a phone won’t cut it.
More than once I’ve had both my personal laptop and the loaner at a jobsite so the crew can get badged quicker.
Generica@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the BDSM community CBT stand for cock & ball torture. The More You Know
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Some of the training matches
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
In the mental health community CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Damn, I haven’t heard about using a laptop for CBT but that shit probably hurts - that’s gonna be a wide surface area for impact.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 year ago
I use Lemmy and Tumblr on my phone; but I use my computer for gaming quite a bit.
small44@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I only use smartphone when i have to. I still make lot of typos on my phone and i am typing slow
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
i see more and more mobile-only households all the time. and people with landline internet at home that has never seen a pc. only televisions, phones and tablets. an increasing number of people don’t even have that, they live off their cell phone’s internet.
personally, i’m ‘desktop only’. my phone i use only as a phone. i have no tablet, no watch, no gaming console. my laptops never leave home, they’re just ‘small desktops’. when i need one, i grab some spare junk from the office to take to a site.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Add me to the computer only at work club.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What, no love for the Kentucky Fried Console?
Godort@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My experience has been that most people only use a computer at work and use their phone or a smart TV for everything else. Although, they usually also own a laptop for when a computer is required
Today@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Phone, computer, tablet.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ubuntu Debian Linux desktop is the best. Friends don’t let friends use windows.