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The things that require more than a few taps to do aren't things that need to be done at a moment's notice. Those things can wait until I'm at my laptop.

by Telaneo 8mo ago

raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
Just Thursday, I left home at 6AM got in an uber, waited at the airport got on a plane for an hour and half , waited at another airport, got on another plane for four hours, uber to the Airbnb and while I was out to dinner that night, my wife and I were planning a trip we were taking during the summer. Are you suggesting that o just queue everything up until I set my laptop up? Again you realize you’re the odd one right with most activity these days taking place on mobile?
- Telaneo 8mo ago
  Is there anything you need to do during that time? Or are you looking to fill that time with whatever to keep you occupied and enjoy whatever? If it's the former, you lead a very different life from me. There are very few things in my life that show up and require immediate action (or action within 24-ish hours for that matter. Most things can wait). If it's the latter, I try to fill that time with reading.
  - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
    Again, are you so much in the HN bubble you don’t realize that most people don’t wait to get home to their laptop (if they even have a laptop) to get things done in 2026? Is it really that hard to look at stats and realize that you might not be the normal one?
    - Telaneo 8mo ago
      I'm sure they do it that way. I'm also not convinced there's any actual need to do it that way. You also didn't answer my question. Nothing in your travel scenario there, if I were in your shoes, would need me to use my phone for more than a few taps per actual task, while the rest of my phone use would go to mindless browsing or reading. What specific tasks are you imagining popping up here that I would then queue to my laptop?
      - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
        Have you ever thought that the HNs crowd superiority complex above the “commoners” and unwashed masses may be unwarranted? And no I’m not a young guy - my first computer was in 1986 in 6th grade…
        Telaneo 8mo ago
        I'm not trying to say my way is superior. On the contrary, I'm asking what use cases you have that you are unable to solve. If you have a genuine need to send emails from your phone at a moment's notice, then I can't argue with that; if you can't wait to respond to the emails you receive, there's nothing else to really do about it. That's why I'm asking what needs you have. I'm trying to better understand your situation, trying to put myself in your shoes. But if you have no desire to actually respond to my inquiry, I shall remain in the dark.
        raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
        Yes you will if you think most communication personally or even work related is happening via email… You know sending email via mobile has been popular since 2003 right?
        Telaneo 8mo ago
        > Yes you will if you think most communication personally or even work related is happening via email… The same principles apply to Slack, Teams or whatever else you may use. I don't do work outside of work hours, so what would I know. Email was just the example I thought of in the moment. Again, I'm asking you a question out of a desire to better understand your situation. Personal correspondence doesn't take many taps to do. It's rarely more than 25 characters at a time in my experience. > You know sending email via mobile has been popular since 2003 right? 'sending' and 'popular' are doing some pretty heavy lifting here. Reading, sure, I'll buy that. Sending? I'm not sure sending emails longer than two sentences from any device without a keyboard has ever been popular, for values of. It's probably more popular than ever given that touch keyboards make it reasonably possible, but James S. Casual isn't sending a lot of emails from his phone just through the sheer power of not sending many emails to begin with. And 'popular' for that matter. Possible, sure, but how many people ever even had a mobile device that could send email before the iPhone came out? I'm sure sarcasm and implying I'm stupid are great ways to convince your interlocutor, or the unseen masses for that matter.
- strix_varius 8mo ago
  You're being pretty defensive / aggressive about what some might call a phone addiction. Most on HN know the data: healthier people tend to enforce boundaries with their devices. The average person is addicted, yes, but I'm not sure being "the odd one" in an era of actually decreasing literacy and numeracy and attention span is the insult that you seem to think.
  - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
    No I’m not living in some Luddite bubble. I am sure you’re also surprised that I’m not running Linux and using KDE Connect. Again, look at the statistics..
    - strix_varius 8mo ago
      The statistics suggest that being perpetually glued to a phone is negative for your life across essentially every dimension.
      - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
        Yes I’m sure that using my phone for things that in the before times I would have used a desktop computer to do over a 2400 baud modem is a negative for my life. Those negatives are around social media
    - iso1631 8mo ago
      I was ready to agree with you, as that was my belief. (I also agree it's a sign of a dangerous addition, but just like everyone in the 60s smoked, everyone today use phones) Then I cam across this, showing about even split between laptop and phone https://tgmstatbox.com/stats/united-kingdom-device-usage-breakdown/ https://tgmstatbox.com/stats/united-kingdom-device-usage-bre... I'd assumed it was more like 80% phone
- mjmsmith 8mo ago
  > while I was out to dinner that night, my wife and I were planning a trip Were you out to dinner with your wife?
  - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
    Yes, during our first night of our 45 day stay in another country and she got a text from someone she is meeting on the first leg of our trip during our summer 45 day domestic trip asking could we come 3 days earlier. We were looking at our calendar, our Hyatt points, flights etc. while enjoying live music and planning our next get away. I’m sure you would have thought we should have waited to take out my laptop when we got back home.

The things that require more than a few taps to do aren't things that need to be done at a moment's notice. Those things can wait until I'm at my laptop.

by Telaneo 8mo ago

The things that require more than a few taps to do aren't things that need to be done at a moment's notice. Those things can wait until I'm at my laptop.

raw_anon_1111 8mo ago

Just Thursday, I left home at 6AM got in an uber, waited at the airport got on a plane for an hour and half , waited at another airport, got on another plane for four hours, uber to the Airbnb and while I was out to dinner that night, my wife and I were planning a trip we were taking during the summer. Are you suggesting that o just queue everything up until I set my laptop up? Again you realize you’re the odd one right with most activity these days taking place on mobile?

Telaneo 8mo ago
Is there anything you need to do during that time? Or are you looking to fill that time with whatever to keep you occupied and enjoy whatever? If it's the former, you lead a very different life from me. There are very few things in my life that show up and require immediate action (or action within 24-ish hours for that matter. Most things can wait). If it's the latter, I try to fill that time with reading.
- raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
  Again, are you so much in the HN bubble you don’t realize that most people don’t wait to get home to their laptop (if they even have a laptop) to get things done in 2026? Is it really that hard to look at stats and realize that you might not be the normal one?
  - Telaneo 8mo ago
    I'm sure they do it that way. I'm also not convinced there's any actual need to do it that way. You also didn't answer my question. Nothing in your travel scenario there, if I were in your shoes, would need me to use my phone for more than a few taps per actual task, while the rest of my phone use would go to mindless browsing or reading. What specific tasks are you imagining popping up here that I would then queue to my laptop?
    - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
      Have you ever thought that the HNs crowd superiority complex above the “commoners” and unwashed masses may be unwarranted? And no I’m not a young guy - my first computer was in 1986 in 6th grade…
      - Telaneo 8mo ago
        I'm not trying to say my way is superior. On the contrary, I'm asking what use cases you have that you are unable to solve. If you have a genuine need to send emails from your phone at a moment's notice, then I can't argue with that; if you can't wait to respond to the emails you receive, there's nothing else to really do about it. That's why I'm asking what needs you have. I'm trying to better understand your situation, trying to put myself in your shoes. But if you have no desire to actually respond to my inquiry, I shall remain in the dark.
        raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
        Yes you will if you think most communication personally or even work related is happening via email… You know sending email via mobile has been popular since 2003 right?
        Telaneo 8mo ago
        > Yes you will if you think most communication personally or even work related is happening via email… The same principles apply to Slack, Teams or whatever else you may use. I don't do work outside of work hours, so what would I know. Email was just the example I thought of in the moment. Again, I'm asking you a question out of a desire to better understand your situation. Personal correspondence doesn't take many taps to do. It's rarely more than 25 characters at a time in my experience. > You know sending email via mobile has been popular since 2003 right? 'sending' and 'popular' are doing some pretty heavy lifting here. Reading, sure, I'll buy that. Sending? I'm not sure sending emails longer than two sentences from any device without a keyboard has ever been popular, for values of. It's probably more popular than ever given that touch keyboards make it reasonably possible, but James S. Casual isn't sending a lot of emails from his phone just through the sheer power of not sending many emails to begin with. And 'popular' for that matter. Possible, sure, but how many people ever even had a mobile device that could send email before the iPhone came out? I'm sure sarcasm and implying I'm stupid are great ways to convince your interlocutor, or the unseen masses for that matter.
strix_varius 8mo ago
You're being pretty defensive / aggressive about what some might call a phone addiction. Most on HN know the data: healthier people tend to enforce boundaries with their devices. The average person is addicted, yes, but I'm not sure being "the odd one" in an era of actually decreasing literacy and numeracy and attention span is the insult that you seem to think.
- raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
  No I’m not living in some Luddite bubble. I am sure you’re also surprised that I’m not running Linux and using KDE Connect. Again, look at the statistics..
  - strix_varius 8mo ago
    The statistics suggest that being perpetually glued to a phone is negative for your life across essentially every dimension.
    - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
      Yes I’m sure that using my phone for things that in the before times I would have used a desktop computer to do over a 2400 baud modem is a negative for my life. Those negatives are around social media
  - iso1631 8mo ago
    I was ready to agree with you, as that was my belief. (I also agree it's a sign of a dangerous addition, but just like everyone in the 60s smoked, everyone today use phones) Then I cam across this, showing about even split between laptop and phone https://tgmstatbox.com/stats/united-kingdom-device-usage-breakdown/ https://tgmstatbox.com/stats/united-kingdom-device-usage-bre... I'd assumed it was more like 80% phone
mjmsmith 8mo ago
> while I was out to dinner that night, my wife and I were planning a trip Were you out to dinner with your wife?
- raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
  Yes, during our first night of our 45 day stay in another country and she got a text from someone she is meeting on the first leg of our trip during our summer 45 day domestic trip asking could we come 3 days earlier. We were looking at our calendar, our Hyatt points, flights etc. while enjoying live music and planning our next get away. I’m sure you would have thought we should have waited to take out my laptop when we got back home.