For consumption of content, phone to laptop use is probably about 70% phone and 30% laptop.
For production of content, 20% phone and 80% laptop, with Lemmy being a large part of the 20% phone production.
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I use my phone a lot when I just don't feel like starting up my computer
Phones are great when mobility is a high priority. Tablet are great for on the go entertainment. Laptops and desktops are great for everything else.
For example, searching information online is so much nicer if you can ctrl click and you have 15 tabs open in no time. Then you can jump between the tabs quickly to compare sources efficiently.
In my neck of the woods: phone only for the vast majority of people.
Even people who use a computer professionally at work don't use one at home.
The only people with home computers I know of are millennials who grew up with them. Younger and older simply don't have computers at all in their lives. Nobody can type anymore.
Monitor and keyboards won't disappear, but it will become more niche with time. It won't be a universal experience like it used to be.
So you're saying that people do their taxes on their phones? Everyone I know uses both a computer and a smartphone for different reasons.
Not every part of the world has a tax office work ritual. In my neck of the woods they don't.
And if we are talking about the paperwork heavy countries, there are tax offices in abundance where people come in and have a third party type their info into a computer... could they have done it on their own? yes.
We are identifying trends in this discussion.
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I have a laptop that I use for things that I find too cumbersome for a phone such as writing, things that require multiple tabs, anything official/formal. Oh and also for playing pokemon ROM hacks.
Other than that I find a phone satisfies my day to day needs.
I use Lemmy and Tumblr on my phone; but I use my computer for gaming quite a bit.
I'm a 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. Also I have automated a lot of my tasks so that I don't need to manage it as much.
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 my desktop and wish I had more time to do my own work on it.
I use a computer 8 hours a day and a tablet and steam deck for entertainment.
I think I use my phone mostly, by time spent, not counting work. Important things I usually do on my desktop. If I had my druthers I’d have more time to spend on the desktop instead of the phone, but I’ve got two young kids so I can only do so much
I'm never on my phone at home except for when sitting on the toilet. 99% of my internet use is either YouTube, Porn or Lemmy and all three are done better on a desktop/laptop. My phone is for podcasts, texting/calls and photography.
I'm on my laptop all the time, and I don't use a smartphone at all. I'm not a luddite, I just don't like the world of smartphones. I enjoy being disconnected when I'm out. I enjoy using an OS that I can control and modify to my heart's content. Am I weird? Do I care? My friends keep forgetting and try to send texts to my landline though, which is annoying. I might replace my landline with a dumb phone, maybe. Ftr, I'm a millenial.
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.
I use my computer for pretty much everything but I have a projector so that shit is up on my wall.
I only use smartphone when i have to. I still make lot of typos on my phone and i am typing slow
Add me to the computer only at work club.
Get a Samsung and have both in one haha. Kinda.
Lol, was waiting for this comment. DeX gang rise up.
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I have an inexpensive desktop plugged into my tv, for watching shows and movies. My laptop is my main computer, plugged in to a monitor and surround speakers. My phone is for laying on the couch scrolling brainrot.
Desktop unless I'm away from home or on the shitter.
Lemmy is not the demographic to ask this question. You're definitely skewed towards using a desktop/laptop here.
No idea about "most people", but I absolutely still use a laptop. In fact using my laptop is more or less my default activity when I'm at home.
I use my mac laptop
I mostly use my Pix8 phone, but I have a few computers. Primary is a Thinkpad T410, about 13 years old, Win 10. Another T410 that's a media player for the TV, Win 7. A Thinkpad R52 on Win XP, music player, feeds a Sony amp & decent speakers. An Acer desktop, Win7, games, big screen. An old Chromebook just for watching TV & movie mp4s, at work. Two Dell lappy Win 11s, provided and controlled by the employer. Work only.
They just keep working, why change? I only bought one of these new.
Not all of these connect directly to the net.
No one would keep all this trash if they had at least one good one.
They all serve their purpose, all in different locations, and most of them never move. I can appreciate this would not be your choice, but it works for me. And thanks for shitting on me, it's been great.
I am also on team old thinkpads. What I use computers for doesn't require recent hardware.
My wife heavily uses her smartphone. Like, she'll work on spreadsheets on her phone instead of grabbing her laptop.
I'm the opposite. I try to use my phone as little as possible.
I cannot imagine working on spreadsheets on a smartphone. I’m getting a stress headache thinking about it.
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.
Phone, computer, tablet.
Our house is mostly mobile. We each have a laptop but it’s more for “bigger things” like filing taxes, booking a trip, designing something, and filling out forms. We have decided that we are getting a desktop within the next year, however. We have a toddler and it’s important to me that she is able to navigate a mouse and keyboard. I work in a school library and my lesson on using the catalog in 2nd grade begins with how to use a computer mouse because I have some of the only desktops that are left in the school. (I’ve even had grown-ass adults come in and try to touch the screen).