I can’t afford plane tickets and I’d have nowhere to go anyways. I am 7 parallel universes ahead of you, or maybe behind. Doesn’t make much of a difference when it comes to parallel universes.
Not simply better at anything, for instance power efficiency, usually mobile devices use an arm architecture which is more efficient than x86.
Plus a phone is much more portable than a pc regardless of whether it may be a laptop or a desktop.
You could always just get a keyboard and plug it into a phone.
A phones touch screen keyboard is okay, i type at over 100wpm, so sure a physical keyboard is superior, especially since autocorrect isn’t on by default on a pc.
If you take the phone and connect it to a monitor and keyboard n mouse setup, what’s the advantage of the pc over that setup?
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.
Oof. That had to hurt.
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.
big screen
laptop
smh
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.
- larger screen
- physical keyboard and actual mouse
- no chance of a random call or notification covering half the screen
Or more simply
- its easier to do things on the computer, so sensitive tasks are easier to do on the computer
That’s some stupid shit right there.
Elaborate?
Now listen here whippersnapper
If you look at their post history…. Well, it’ll explain a lot. 🤣
Right back atcha, sweet cake. 😬 Don’t spend much time near reflective surfaces? More’s the better, I guess?
Don’t you have school or something? Gotta do well so you can buy plenty of V-bucks
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.
I need multiple browsers, each with their own separate private browsing window, looking at different sites via VPNs to separate countries.
Clicking through tabs is easier for me on my phone, honestly. It’s entirely possible that I haven’t had complicated travel to deal with like you have
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.
Nah I just need to be able to press tab when filling out fields
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)
In addition, I want to use tools like Seat Guru to know if there are serious issues with the seat I’m about to choose. And, with a lot of those tools it’s easiest if you have the booking website open next to the tool (say Seat Guru) website. If you have to switch back and forth you need to remember details like “it’s seat 26A on a 737-MAX”. If you can have both open side-by-side you can glance from one window over to the other one.
You still fly on 737s?
Why, is seat 26A on a 737-MAX a bad seat for some reason?
It’s no worse than any other seat on a 737, so far as I know. But it seems that every airline disaster in the news for the last several years has involved a 737. Based on that alone, I wouldn’t willingly get on one. Not any Boeing aircraft, if I’m being honest.
Seat 26A might be slightly worse than other seats, actually.
Seat guru is just commercialized ticket scalpers. Enjoy getting scammazed
That certainly makes you a certain type of person, but I think the type transcends the generations
Am I an old millenial because I have a desktop and find even a laptop too restrictive?
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)
But can I sit on the couch and play games on my lap with a built PC
Yep, just run an HDMI cable from your PC to your TV or run a CAT6 to a Steam Link (some some similar bit of hardware) and you’re good to go
Phone = small
Tablet = medium
Desktop = big
Laptop = worst mashup of everything
I love my laptop
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.
Indeed.
I mean fair enough
Or read Manga/eBooks, take notes using a stylus + note taking app, play video games using PlayStation Remote Play, etc. I also use Samsung Dex for playing movies on TVs while traveling.
Exactly right. Big laptops are great. My desktop monitors are even more bigasser
I’m in my 40’s and haven’t bought a laptop yet. The need has never come up. I do purchases and all serious browsing on my desktop because big monitor and good focused seating position. Every time I have somehow had to use a laptop has been uncomfortable. They are slow, the screen is too small, pointing and clicking takes forever unless you connect a mouse, the ergonomics is just terrible.
I’m almost 40 and just got my first laptop for work recently. I find myself creating and editing documents on my desktop and only using the laptop to view them and to make some minor corrections while away from the desktop. I could do that more comfortably with a tablet tbh.
It does help if the laptop has touchscreen though. I hate trackpads and will never get used to them.
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.
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.
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.
U 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?
If you don’t want a laptop that’s fine, more power to you. That said, you can at least acknowledge that many people would be able to perform some tasks much faster and more reliably with a laptop.
Having a physical keyboard might let you spell the word “I” correctly, for one.
I’m a big purchase desktop kinda person, but there are always Bluetooth physical keyboards you can use with your phone. There are even nifty folding ones that can fit in your pocket.
Ya, but if I’m gonna do that, then I may as well just buy a mechanical Bluetooth one and sling it around with me all day. I only keep 4 things in my pockets my keys, my wallet, my phone, and my pepperspray or gun, depending on how I’m feeling that day(I don’t just have it loose i use a pocket holster).
NO U
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.
I have a desktop because I find a laptop too restrictive (but I don’t really game or anything) and I book travel on my phone
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.
Yeah, I have a desktop for the heavy lifting and phone for whatever on the go. Laptop just feels like an unfortunate compromise.
this only makes sense to me if your laptop screen is like 480p
Then I’m positively prehistoric. I’d rather book flights with a travel agent.
What’s a travel agent
People question you but there’s actually some good reasons. My first international flight as a teen was via travel agent and they managed to get me a $300 promotional ticket to Japan (usual price $800 at that time). They even hooked me up with a train pass, too.
That, and I read that any multi-destination trip can benefit from an agent, usually saving more than you spent on the agent. My guess is the train passes and things like that can also help a ton.
Why?
They enjoy the added expense.
I’d honestly rather have someone else do it for me who knows what they’re doing. Flying is bad enough, why extend that terrible experience?
I used to use my credit card concierge for that but now they’re impossible to get in touch with. I skipped everything in between and now just do it on my phone, generally while drunk as shit in the middle of the night.
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).
Yeah, one of the setup steps is a recommended option to add a code for purchases. That’s kinda on him.
Also, Android are more vulnerable to malware and viruses. I make purchases on Linux.
I did most of my home purchase on my phone.
Me, I’m like, well, I could buy the train tickets on the app. But that’d require opening the bank app simultaneously to authorise the payment, and it’s a bit fiddly (it didn’t work reliably on my shitty phone a decade ago, it does work these days). Soooo I’ll buy the tickets on laptop and run the bank app on the phone.
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