"It's true. We're so lame!" : simpsonsshitposting

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I think mobile would pick up more for everyone if the average app/web mobile interface wasn't a complete and utter piece of junk lol.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

My Gen X partner recently chastised my millennial self for buying plane tickets on my phone, but I don’t own a laptop!

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago

I remember the days when you had to drive downtown to a travel agent and have them create a ticket for you. Then they'd print it off. If you lost it, you lost your flight.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 35 points 17 hours ago

Anything over £100 is a big screen purchase.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

As a millennial I have no idea how to block ads on my phone, and therefore refuse to use the internet on the damn thing.

Edit: Thanks for the advice, y'all! I'll be giving those a try.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 10 hours ago

If you want a different solution that doesn't require installing anything and works across (almost) every app, open Android settings, search "private DNS" and set it to dns.adguard.com

[–] Arnl@lemmy.zip 15 points 16 hours ago

Plain firefox + ublock works too

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

One option for Android is Waterfox + UBlock Origin

[–] ok_effect@feddit.dk 4 points 17 hours ago

DuckDuckGo browser works

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I desktop that shit. Laptop is fine for everyday, but anything over 500 bucks has to be desktop.

[–] iuseasahibtw@ani.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Amateur.

I just hijack an actual plane. If I succeed, then I get a free flight, if not, then I get free housing, sex whenever I want, free food, and healthcare.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I mainframe that shit. Desktop is fine for casual use, but plane tickets are just too important to trust to anything but a multi-million dollar supercomputer I access remotely over an encrypted line from a dumb terminal at a secure location

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

The purchase will nevertheless quite likely go through a mainframe anyway,..

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolute bollocks. I don't trust any computer for that that isn't in the room with me

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Neither do I. I sneak into the datacenter, put an EMP to the mainframe's head, and ask it how I get from Miami to Denver for less than $300.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 145 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

A big purchase needs a big screen!

When you can plug your phone into your workstations USB c dock and you have DeX or another equivalent, the lines start to get blurry.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can’t plan a trip without two 27” screens.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its true! One needs a couple windows and/or several tabs with different things open. Itineraries, transport options, budget stuff, its a research project.

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you. Plane tickets, like doing my taxes, is a PC task, not a phone one...

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 23 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I still wouldn't enter any of my credentials on a phone though. Don't even trust it enough to open my main email account on it.

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[–] MBech@feddit.dk 12 points 1 day ago

Gen z aren't buying shit in this economy.

[–] tough_cookies@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, travel agents are coming back. Mostly because the travel industry weaponized all the tech against us commoners.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was agonising over booking a long, complicated trip I did last year, and a friend who works organising corporate stuff told me to shut up and go to a travel agent.

A nice fellow just rattled away at his keyboard and came up with an itinerary that was cheaper than anything I'd come up with myself. No charge - they scrape from the airlines I guess - and I got a free ballpoint. After decades of planning my own travel, I am converted.

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

No charge?!? Do they use affiliate links or something?

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The number of Gen Z students who write term papers on their phones (not even tablets!) is alarming to me. It's like 30% of them in my class. Their thoughts aren't necessarily bad, and I grade them seriously, but yikes-- the formatting!

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

Yikes the back pain and eye sore...

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Touch screens are just fundamentally a shit way to efficiently do any sort of text input. Not to mention the screen size and OS tooling is completely insufficient for any kind of research.

Little screen for little info. Big screen for big info.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OS tooling

I was once writing an assignment last minute. On a full train. Where I could only use my phone while standing.
Not the best experience, but using Vim and LaTeX in Termux is pretty doable.
Although in that case I didn't have LaTeX directly on my phone, instead I SSHd into my computer, and then rsynced PDFs to preview the document. But TeX Live is even in the Termux repository, if you want. After all, you can SSH into your phone just the same.

Termux is awesome. I sometimes even use it to off-load stuff I don't want my computer to be choking with, such as large downloads, video encoding or compressing large files with high xz settings.
It's just a battery-powered highly portable passively cooled computer.
But of course, a full-fledged Linux phone would be even better.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

VIM ON TERMUX?? This person is totally nuts idk if i should pay deep respect or suggest to go in a psychiatric hospital

[–] Seralth@piefed.seralth.com 1 points 12 hours ago

It can be both I believe in you

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You guys can afford plane tickets?

[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Its been so long since I've flown that I think my butthole has tightened up too much to handle the cavity searches.

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

GenX needs that 27" monitor.

[–] joyjoy@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Plane tickets? In this economy?

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My friend arranged a mortgage on his phone. He is a traitor to our generation!

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[–] remon@ani.social 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it usually involves typing. And it's not like you're buying plane tickets while already on the way to the airport so it usually can wait a few hours and you don't have to torture yourself by typing anything on a phone.

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