• Master@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I have one phone… I’ve got three desktops at home, one laptops plus two steamdecks, two servers and one ipad we never use.

    At work we have 15 desktops plus 2 servers and 4 laptops.

    I dont know how people live with just a phone as a “computer”. I couldnt even live with just a laptop… Like what are you people doing just browsing tiktok and youtube?

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      Yel that’s exactly what they do. I’ve asked around, and at a guess, half the people I know only have a phone. Whole families just using a phone each to look at YouTube and tiktok, do banking talk to friends on WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook. They watch tv, play sport, go out socialising, shopping, etc. They honestly have no use for a PC at all

      A huge percentage of people don’t use a computer at work either.

      Its easy to get lost in tech, but in reality the vast majority of people in this world just have no use for desktops or laptops.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t imagine a lot of people bar PC gamers do much more than watch media or consume social media on their devices, so a phone fits the bill.

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      1 year ago

      I have a desktop and 4 laptops, zero tablets, and one phone. Of course they all boot linux by default. But I know I’m an outlier. I hang out with average families. They have maybe one desktop, two to three laptops (of which about half are school chromebooks), a Playstation/Switch/XBox, and one phone per person. Plus the computers they use most are not in their house they are servers in data centers. The machines they possess are really just interfaces to the computers they actually rely on.

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      1 year ago

      Well, technically Instagram as well.

      Anyway, I can’t stand writing a long email on my phone, I don’t what kind of “computer tasks” people are carrying out on them

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        1 year ago

        From what I’ve understood, it’s mostly emails.

        Lots of short and sloppy half-assed emails with the most shitty formatting they could manage. That’s how many people computer.

        That and TikTok.