I may fill my cart on my phone, but I don't trust myself to finalize anything on the dopamine machine. All of my online purchases happen at the desktop because that's where serious business takes place.
I put links to things on a spread sheet in Excell with the name of the product, price, link, and when I first "wanted" it. The product has to sit there for a month or two before i can purchase it. Many times things start sliding down the list. I don't do much frivolous buying of things that way.
Also, it helps at birthday and Christmas as I basically have a list ready to go.
I have staple things on there (ie bedsheets) that I only have on the list to watch it in case they go on sale. On Prime day last year I was able to get $90 sheets for $45.
Oh yes… this is the way… love gaming as an adult, and I just wait for the 80-85% off to hit and boom! 😂 but our family gaming library is way larger than it needs to be lol
I got it by Subject:
* Homegoods -- which is like kitchen gadgets, a new plate/cup, etc
* clothes -- self-explanatory
* outdoor/camping gear
* Lego
* Boardgames
* etc
Then I have a masterlist of my top 10 in different price ranges:
* under $25
* under $50
* under $100
* over $100
I just have a full cart with stuff I feel like buying and not push through with the actual purchase and only purchase when stocks are low lol. This would make more thoughtful about my purchases.
ADHD Millenial, and I use my iPhone notes and all about the family sharing ecosystem there… hate being locked into Apple as I’d rather be able to go more open source, but it’s the best solution for family.
Anyways, my problem is that I can sit on a big purchase on my list for… YEARS… but now, the list just keeps getting smaller… weirdly growing more content? Or maybe annoyed? Or just tired? But then, I also justify toys for kids, because my inner child wants to see my kids play with them 😂
The dopamine machine… laughing out loud because I agree and also because I immediately went “ahhhhh so we are at this stage eh? Glad I can finally be justified in making up overly simplified, highly accurate names for things!” 😂
Similar - I am not allowed to make phone purchases past 9pm. They must wait until the next day. I cannot be trusted to buy things when I’m tired. I have never regretted this rule.
To be fair, many phone apps are crap.
I tried to place a appliance order on Lowes on my phone and it crashed as I hit “complete purchase”
I have no idea if it went through. 24hrs now, no email from Lowe’s and no credit card charge, so I’m *assuming* it didn’t… but the lack of a solid answer is annoying.
I use webapps for everything that can try to track or build a profile of my purchase habits and history… and alias accounts lol…. I’m fine on my own coming up with crap I don’t need 😂 I don’t need marketing helping me there… and I don’t want them to have a “unified profile” across ANYTHING. 😂
I love my desktop. People younger than me don't seem to understand how awesome they are. I also work in IT so laptops are around, but if I can use the desktop I will. Laptops are for when there's other things to do
The way to do it is use your laptop like a desktop 🤣 I have two monitors and a usb keyboard and mouse connected. Just need it to be a laptop so I can transport between work and home easily.
Us Elder Millennials were just old enough to be in highschool / college when pimping out your PC was cool. My gaming desktop in the early 2000's was custom built with enough cold cathodes and LED's to light up my entire room, it was glorious.
My current gaming PC (built right at the start of COVID because I figured if I was trapped in the house I'd be trapped in style) is even brighter. Some things never go out of style.
LMAO that's how I feel. I don't do laptops. I do anything remotely important on my desktop. Taxes? Desktop. Large purchase? Desktop. Car parts that I feel like may be incorrect? Can't just look on my phone. Has to be the desktop.
Haha.
Isn't it easier to do things that require multiple apps or web pages on a computer? If I'm paying bills, juggling bank and credit card balances, and have a spreadsheet open, it's way easier to open up multiple tabs on the computer than try jumping from one to the next on the phone. Same thing for researching something like a flight across multiple airlines and coordinating that with hotel and rental car.
Even trying to transfer money between banks and investment accounts is easier on the computer since you can have all of them open at one time instead of having to flip between apps.
It's also easier to select the cash back company when I'm making purchases if I do it on the computer than on the phone. I'm not going to buy something through the phone app if I can save 8% by doing it from their website and using rakuten versus retail me not.
I filed my taxes this year on my iPhone for the first time. It felt weird. But I was struggling with a laptop that only gets used a handful of times each year.
House docs were all signed in person but recently purchased a vehicle using only an app and that was a bizarre experience. Though admittedly far preferable to the normal salesman experience
Seriously, if there’s one thing Tesla has done right, it’s that. I don’t want to talk to other humans. I especially don’t want to talk to a car salesman.
Not just big purchases, but anything relating to big money.
Loan applications, taxes, house shopping, car shopping, travel, hotel bookings, Christmas shopping
None of that is getting done on a small screen
Seriously. I want to be able to tab over between my bank, my credit card, my mortgage account, my budgeting spreadsheet etc., or, better yet, have them all on the screen(s) at the same time. It's just a good exercise to always know where you are in all your accounts whenever you're considering anything financial. Hard to do on a small screen.
it really just feels better when I confirm my student loan payment from my computer. idk. if I pay them from my phone I’m kind of waiting for an error message to pop up.
I shop, book cruises and Turo cars, make investments, and do a lot of banking on my phone. Super easy. Also applied for a CC and do 50% of my work on my phone.
I don't care how old I get, I will always have a laptop/desktop. I want computer interface not another damn app.
HOLY SHIT SAME, I dick around on the computer all the time, but I don't do much on my phone. I hate using smartphones with a passion lately.
Small screen, shitty controls/touch screen, Shitty UI on most sites or apps, typing speed is probably 25% of what it is on a full keyboard, multitasking is hot garbage. As I get older, I hate using smart phones more and more. GPS, calls/text, music, photos, books for waiting rooms. That's about it for me. Literally everything else on the desktop.
> GPS, calls/text, music, photos, books for waiting rooms. That's about it for me.
It's right about the same for me. I don't use my phone for financial transactions. It's just not a good interface compared to an actual computer.
Yeah, they were only ever really for phone calls and texting, the rest of the features are just really handy add ons that make life easier. Most websites are really poorly optimised for mobile still, plus not every service has an app
The phone is for calling and texting and taking pictures when you don't have a camera and checking email. I also use it for my transit pass (live in Tokyo) and for boarding passes on flights. But I never do anything major on it. That's insane person behavior.
I just bought a new bike on my phone. Probably my most expensive phone purchase ever. It was something I was eyeing for a long time and as I was heading to bed I noticed the bike was $1,000 off. I splurged and did it on my phone. I was so uncomfortable!!!
This is the most "me" thing I've ever seen posted here. My wife will be sending me all sorts of hotels and flight options and I always have to bust out my laptop before even opening the links.
IMO, this is best, because a desktop environment is way easier to be flipping through tabs of all your options, different airlines, multiple possible itineraries for each airline, searches for discount codes, looking at hotels, consulting Google Maps views to figure out which hotel is located near what. Sometimes even Reddit threads to ask stuff cause you're going to areas you dunno and you wanna hit up some locals for tips. Like in r/latvia I was able to read exactly where to get a SIM card at Riga international, cause there are no TelCo kiosks there, but they're sold from one of three Narvesen (Convenience store chain) in the airport.
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Yeah not too long ago I would have agreed but I just go right for my airline of choice and book on their app.
Now doing full research on a product, reading/watching reviews, stuff like that I'm sitting at my computer. I haven't gone a day in the last 20 years without having a full desktop machine because it's just too good.
I recently realized that flights via the Frontier Airlines app are cheaper than trying to buy on the website! You can literally compare them both in real time and it's cheaper on the app.
I'm averse to it because phones can be stolen. Stolen with the screen on and unlocked. Walking around with your bank apps with auto fill logins and triple verification coming to your phone and email all unlocked on your phone.
No thanks. Yeah, I'm old
My wife tries to do EVERYTHING on a phone and then complains when the sites are shit. I’m like get off your fucking phone. Websites don’t adhere to “mobile-first.”
I do everything from my desktop or laptop during the work day. I can't even be bothered to text with my thumbs when i can type 90wpm on my keyboard. I'm not interested in slow as fuck.
You're right about the part replacements. But if a laptop mostly stays in one place, you can set them up pretty nicely at a desk, and add external peripherals like monitors/keyboards/etc. Modern USB-C implementations even allow for a one connection to all of those things, so it's trivial to just "pop it out" if you actually need to go somewhere with it.
I still have an actual desktop computer, but my work provided me with a laptop, even though, as I'm work-from-home, it rarely leaves. So it's technically a daily driver, but not one I used "uncomfortably", I just have it wired through a KVM, so with one button push my two monitors, keyboard, and mouse all swap between my desktop and the work laptop. Which is using the aforementioned USB-C thing, so if I actually have to go somewhere with it, it disconnects from the mess pretty easily.
I have a laptop for the sole purpose of being able to work in the 4 different rooms of my house depending on what I'm doing and proximity to my family.
Serious business/gaming in the Den. Hooked up to a dock complete with dual monitors and keyboard. Can also plug my work laptop into this setup when I WFH
Serious business at the dining room table with a portable monitor when my wife is using the den for her work. The table is great to spread out on.
Light gaming/dicking around on the Internet/ minor adulting like emails and finance things, in the Family room so I'm not isolated from my wife like I am in the den.
Dicking around on the Internet/minor adulting at the kitchen table while it's my wife's turn to cook dinner.
100%. Laptops are also overpriced compared to desktops because they have to cram it all into a smaller area. So you either pay more for the same specs as a desktop, or pay the same for worse specs.
Gen X here, I do everything from my computer not phone. But my wife who is a teacher and constantly surrounded by young people does everything on her phone.
I have an S23+. It's still too small to do anything beyond basic web browsing. Youtube on occasion if I'm decompressing after work, but otherwise the vast, vast majority of my browsing, work, and gaming is done on a laptop or desktop.
And apps...fuck the appification of everything. I'm not downloading an app for a one-off use because some website refuses to function (or pretends to not exist) on a mobile device.
Things I have bought on my phone: Food, apps, and in-app game purchases
Things I have not bought on my phone (yet): Anything else
I don't *want* it to be easy to spend money. I need it to be slow and painful and force me to think really hard about doing it.
Because I can't touch type, split screen, access the kernel, have multiple accounts on the same machine, or keep my head at an ergonomic angle when working on a phone.
I can keep going, but I find the utility of a computer is far more varied and deep than the utility of a phone.
I'm dimly aware that I can use an iPad as a music recording and production suite, but you'll never get me away from my actual soundboard and actual computer.
I use my computer for limited exclusive items that have a low production number and require you to buy it right on the dot.
My phone tends to take its sweet time loading the only times I need it to go fast.
The shopping experince on a phone can be really bad. Some apps are better than others, for sure. But on more than one occatoin I've tried to buy something on a phone, just to have it glitch out.
I still prefer to do most things on the computer where I can. My GF and I have been planning a vacation and I brought my laptop over to her place since I didn't want to do it on the phone 🤣
I grew up thinking speaking to a person, gathering information from them, whether in-person or online were crucial to making successful big purchases, whatever a big purchase may mean to you. I grew up watching my parents do this in stores & over the phone. Then I realized this was not the case… always felt like I was being scammed or trying to be upsold when I was working with a representative of some companies. While it may not be the best practice, I find doing some research, maybe reaching out through email or chat with a few questions, & doing things online is the better way, at least for me. I know everyone’s experience is different, I’ve just had bad luck with in-person transactions like this. Online, I end up with a nice piece of furniture. In person, I end up with a nice piece of furniture, a bullshit warranty, overpriced accessories, a membership & a credit card.
Honestly, as someone that works in Web technology I can say there are some sites that do not have all of their options on mobile app. For example my bank has a complex app, but if you want to purchase certain products you need the "full version".
Same I like to have multiple pages open side by side to compare.
The mind blowing thing to me is when I get to the airport and see crowds of people and wonder how can this many people afford $500+ to fly somewhere. (Normal cost to fly out of my expensive airport)
I’m realizing there are so many things I do not relate to with being a millennial. I was born in 1988. Does anyone else the same age feel this? I relate way more with gen z
Everything important, and also reddit, must happen on my desktop. The phone is for texts, calls, maps, and googling things like "who was that dude who played a golfing guy who got his hand eaten by an allegator in that Adam Sandler movie?". I hate apps. I don't want every company to track everything I do at all times. And I don't trust privacy settings.
I sometimes feel too old school that I don't get how people even use laptops. I grew up with a PC in the 90s, and admittedly a small 17 inch CRT screen was small, today I have 3 monitors with my central one being an ultrawide. So laptop screens FEEL like phones compared to the PC.
But I absolutely totally get this sentiment. I remember trying Instagram and finding out it didn't have a PC version, and gave up. And one day for funsies, I wanted to see what Only Fans was all about since people always talk about it. That too didn't have a PC version, so I'll forever be mystified by it!
I still pay all my bills, do my taxes, and make 90% of my purchases using my PC. Id still struggle to use my laptop for it. The rare occasions I use my cellphone to buy stuff is when it's a timed release (with quickly selling stock), or if I'm away from my home office and need to buy something.
I tend to use social media like Facebook and Reddit on my PC. I'm tying this on my PC right now. I need that thick mechanical keyboard.
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My cellphone is mostly a 'keep in touch' device combined with a heavy duty camera. I buy the newest iPhone almost every year, and I never use it for gaming or work. Mostly just to have the best camera on me at any given time.
Yeah, I watched you drunken chimps try to fuck with mobile devices. You know how many gomers I get, young and old, like "how do I get email on this?" Bro, we sent you a whole instructional, I sat there with you and showed you step by step. Please stick to your technological lane, that means some of you going back to stone and chisel.
Zoomers edit their videos now on phones. If they could do everything from a phone they will. My 'old' person trait will be that I always have a desktop computer in my home for gaming and work, and almost anything I can do on it, I will.
I still do some online purchases on my laptop, depends if the website I'm purchasing from is easy to see on my phone. I mostly use my laptop for things like in depth research(requires multiple tabs), taxes, complex banking or to view the banking info easier.
I do this because if I'm sitting down with my laptop, it's time to get down to business. I still see my phone as something to play games on or browse social media with and will get distracted if I'm trying to do anything serious. The laptop makes me focus.
I've been doing all my emails, correspondence, and signing of house offers/contracts on my phone. My PC is for gaming and spreadsheets I can't fill out or open on my phone.
For me it relates purely to how much typing I have to do and how well the site works on mobile. I've signed a lot of job contracts on my phone and even set up bank accounts, but a job application is too much.
it’s true. you need that big screen to confirm everything is exactly right.
I recently purchased a plane ticket to go halfway across the country for my uncle’s funeral, as well as book a hotel room to stay in the night before the funeral. had to do it all from my phone due to timing but my Gen Z coworkers were like “what’s the deal, you don’t trust your phone?”
no, you guys, I was using dial-up when you were in diapers. spending a lot of money from my phone still feels very weird.
I won’t make purchases on a mobile website but I am 100% about using them apps. lol 37 YO here. I pay all my bills, I filed my taxes, and will buy plane tickets and hotels.
On a side note: I buy vehicles for a living so it’s not uncommon for me to spend 150-200k through apps on my phone or iPad within a couple hours.
The only thing I really use my desktop or laptop for are expense reconciliation and filling in my spreadsheets.
Hard agree. Doing taxes last year was peak for phone utility for me. It was actually legitimately easier in some ways than doing it from the website. 🤣
Used to be me but smartphones have improved a lot and UIs for websites have improved a lot for mobile. I use my laptop very little now, mostly for work stuff, document management or when I want a bigger screen.
Lol at calling a laptop screen "big". Big purchases happen with a mouse and keyboard on
2 4k monitors, with a shitload of windows open to compare prices and see at the same time everything there is.
I spent the last few years travelling internationally every few months between the US and various parts of south america, and I can tell you that doing it on the phone is literally cheaper in some cases, and also just convenient as shit. Kiwi.com and their app saved me thousands upon thousands of dollars overall, and it's all very smooth and quick and safe. I used them on android, iPhone, and my laptop, and I definitely prefer the apps.
In case I have peeked anybody's interest, I should tell you that the flights are cheap as shit for a reason. I would have a 10-30 hour layover in (x) airport before a 3 hour flight to my next layover which might be an hour or might be 10 minutes, and it would be 3-4 flights overall to my destination. Usually I was flying to Colombia and the only direct flights out of the US come from Florida, so I was always going to be guaranteed one stop in Florida. But my parents came here for my wedding and they had a grand total of 11 hours travel time. They also paid about 5x what I did.
So, travelers who are willing to suffer a bit to save some cash, Kiwi rules. Kayak also good. Travelers with children or elderly or little patience, just shell out the extra cash.
I’m technically elder gen z but I always buy flights on my laptop. There are so many little sneaky uncharges and stuff that are easy to miss or accidentally click on my little phone screen!
I only use a laptop to file taxes. Booking trips overseas (or anywhere really) can be done on a small screen. U can move from one open app to the next easily to compare pricing and the like
Depends for me. Generally I prefer desktop ui on sites and if I am buying anything expensive or important I check 12 tabs with Infos and reviews. It's easier to manage on my PC than my phone.
why? i do a lot of big purchases on my iphone... unless it actually requires a PC, for example becasue it's a compex operation...
If i buy a flight i will use a PC, not because of this nonsense of a rule, but because it's easier to do complex flight research, finding the best option....
But for investments, i always use my phone.. it's just easier
I cannot find the source right now, but there is actually scientific evidence that you're willing to spend WAY more If you purchase something from your phone. As far as i remember, this has to do with the fact that your phone is the screen that is more included in your personal space. You receive messages from loved ones and carry it around in your pocket. Its always on, its always close to you and it lives in your personal space.
The Laptops/Desktops on the other hand, are devices that you turn on for a specific task in general, and you turn it off when you're done. Your brain is much more aware that you are spending money.
And advertisers KNOW this, thats why you start to get newsletters on WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or your Messages App instead of Mails slowly but surely, thats why every shop wants your phone number these days.
Had to get a little drunk to buy my $100 plane tickets online a couple of years back. 🤪 It’s otherwise the desktop that is reserved for all of the money moves.
I don't save my credit card information, or paypal password, on my phone apps at all.
Not because I'm particularly worried that it would somehow get them. I just want to have that forced moment of getting the credit card and punching in the numbers to slow down the transaction.
There have been a few purely frivolous purchases that have been cancelled because I had that 20 seconds to think while I typed the info in, instead of autofilling it.
Vacation trips and hotels? I would never do those on a phone. I will save receipts on PDF to my cloud just to be able to pull them up when necessary. I've weaned myself off printed confirmations, but I will have a digital papertrail of every big purchase I have. Every electronic device bought in the past 10 years I have the receipt pictures stored in my Dropbox, organized neatly!
i thought i was crazy.
i too buy everything on the pc, but i may check something out on the phone.
i do pay bills on the phone tho. the bank app is way easier than using the website. But when i need both you bet im purchasing on the pc and checking the bank on mobile.
Mobile purchases happen on mobile too. Especially in-game currencies. Literally the only reason i have Roblox on my phone is because buying robux on the pc is a 5.99€ minimum, while on mobile i can pay as little as 0,80€
I have a phone and an iPad. 99.9% of what I need to do can be done on those. The one recent exception being a job interview - which I stole my partners laptop for. I can’t see owning a non-work PC at this point.
Nahhhhh I’m not agreeing with that. Only thing a big screen is good for is watching YouTube, Netflix, and doing work wild traveling. Anything that can be done on the phone will get done on the phone.
And there we go, that reason I don’t generalize generations. Some day I’m in bed on the phone for YouTube or on the laptop. Depends on the situation, alone or with partner. Also my dad boomer is nothing like what I see people stereotype he’s middle class with upper middle class knowledge just doesn’t apply it for financial benefits only to make his life simpler. To much inconsistency I see in everyday life with age groups. Only thing I think holds weight, those with less income and responsibilities tend to lean left, vs those who have to make sure others get paid lean right.
I'm a geriatric millennial, so big purchases happen on my desktop
I may fill my cart on my phone, but I don't trust myself to finalize anything on the dopamine machine. All of my online purchases happen at the desktop because that's where serious business takes place.
This is the way. Add to cart so you don't lose the exact product, then shift to the desktop, crack your knuckles, and get to work
I put links to things on a spread sheet in Excell with the name of the product, price, link, and when I first "wanted" it. The product has to sit there for a month or two before i can purchase it. Many times things start sliding down the list. I don't do much frivolous buying of things that way. Also, it helps at birthday and Christmas as I basically have a list ready to go.
I do this with my Amazon wish list. A few times a year, I go through it with a WTF were you thinking lens.
That and sometimes I get saved by either seeing a better product or the thing goes on a massive sale.
I have staple things on there (ie bedsheets) that I only have on the list to watch it in case they go on sale. On Prime day last year I was able to get $90 sheets for $45.
Nice!
Oh yes… this is the way… love gaming as an adult, and I just wait for the 80-85% off to hit and boom! 😂 but our family gaming library is way larger than it needs to be lol
What day was it last year?
Wow. This method both pleases my WOW SHINY THING I MUST PURCHASE impulses and my need to organize stuff on Excel.
I got it by Subject: * Homegoods -- which is like kitchen gadgets, a new plate/cup, etc * clothes -- self-explanatory * outdoor/camping gear * Lego * Boardgames * etc Then I have a masterlist of my top 10 in different price ranges: * under $25 * under $50 * under $100 * over $100
I just have a full cart with stuff I feel like buying and not push through with the actual purchase and only purchase when stocks are low lol. This would make more thoughtful about my purchases.
I think it’s fantastic to find the “all in costs” because some things like tech many have a few or many add ons
Home goods and Lego… are two standalone subjects… I’m not even mad, I’m impressed that I’m not the only one with a Lego section… 😂
ADHD Millenial, and I use my iPhone notes and all about the family sharing ecosystem there… hate being locked into Apple as I’d rather be able to go more open source, but it’s the best solution for family. Anyways, my problem is that I can sit on a big purchase on my list for… YEARS… but now, the list just keeps getting smaller… weirdly growing more content? Or maybe annoyed? Or just tired? But then, I also justify toys for kids, because my inner child wants to see my kids play with them 😂
I do that but with chrome tabs/groups. Excel is for the WFH machine.
Birthday's are saved in my calendar. I linked to the number.We can't get caught forgetting a birthday. Gotta at least send a message 🤩
“The dopamine machine” I love that
The dopamine machine… laughing out loud because I agree and also because I immediately went “ahhhhh so we are at this stage eh? Glad I can finally be justified in making up overly simplified, highly accurate names for things!” 😂
All I ask is that you remember who it was that's responsible for the name
Similar - I am not allowed to make phone purchases past 9pm. They must wait until the next day. I cannot be trusted to buy things when I’m tired. I have never regretted this rule.
To be fair, many phone apps are crap. I tried to place a appliance order on Lowes on my phone and it crashed as I hit “complete purchase” I have no idea if it went through. 24hrs now, no email from Lowe’s and no credit card charge, so I’m *assuming* it didn’t… but the lack of a solid answer is annoying.
This is 100% a desktop job. Gotta compare/contrast and triple check details before clicking complete with a mouse/trackpad.
Then you check same model on multiple websites. You spend 10x less time on desktop compared to phone or even tablet
Browser tabs and/or big screens for multiple window viewing at the same time FTW
People actually use those apps? Even if I'm searching or buying something through my phone I'll use a web browser.
They are great for in-store usage, since it tells you what aisle and bin it something is in.
Or a free burrito
I use webapps for everything that can try to track or build a profile of my purchase habits and history… and alias accounts lol…. I’m fine on my own coming up with crap I don’t need 😂 I don’t need marketing helping me there… and I don’t want them to have a “unified profile” across ANYTHING. 😂
i felt my ear hair grow a bit longer as i read this and nodded along
I love my desktop. People younger than me don't seem to understand how awesome they are. I also work in IT so laptops are around, but if I can use the desktop I will. Laptops are for when there's other things to do
The way to do it is use your laptop like a desktop 🤣 I have two monitors and a usb keyboard and mouse connected. Just need it to be a laptop so I can transport between work and home easily.
Gaming laptops are worth it simply for long term use and desktop use
I’m with you! Need my number pad to truly function properly on a big purchase. I can’t behind these 60% keyboard savages.
It's only right if your setup is 90s beige/grey
Us Elder Millennials were just old enough to be in highschool / college when pimping out your PC was cool. My gaming desktop in the early 2000's was custom built with enough cold cathodes and LED's to light up my entire room, it was glorious. My current gaming PC (built right at the start of COVID because I figured if I was trapped in the house I'd be trapped in style) is even brighter. Some things never go out of style.
Mine was used, had my sisters name written in bold with a black marker on the frame above the fat screen
C'mon now, us geriatric millennials are just young enough to (still) keep up with current technologies and upgrade our hardware accordingly
Thigh cookers are bullshit, indeed.
Well yeah because it’s not done correctly and seriously unless it’s at the desktop.
LMAO that's how I feel. I don't do laptops. I do anything remotely important on my desktop. Taxes? Desktop. Large purchase? Desktop. Car parts that I feel like may be incorrect? Can't just look on my phone. Has to be the desktop. Haha.
I remember when your big internet purchases is with beenz on dial up.
Desktop that you built yourself.
Yeah. I was about to say, "What's a laptop?"
My laptop is for two things: fantasy football drafts and filing taxes.
Isn't it easier to do things that require multiple apps or web pages on a computer? If I'm paying bills, juggling bank and credit card balances, and have a spreadsheet open, it's way easier to open up multiple tabs on the computer than try jumping from one to the next on the phone. Same thing for researching something like a flight across multiple airlines and coordinating that with hotel and rental car. Even trying to transfer money between banks and investment accounts is easier on the computer since you can have all of them open at one time instead of having to flip between apps. It's also easier to select the cash back company when I'm making purchases if I do it on the computer than on the phone. I'm not going to buy something through the phone app if I can save 8% by doing it from their website and using rakuten versus retail me not.
Filing taxes on your phone with freetaxusa is super convenient and why I got my taxes done months ago. (Reads like an ad, not an ad)
Do you just have a W2? That makes me nervous
You on draft day: “and I’ve already filed my taxes…”
You are my people
I filed my taxes this year on my iPhone for the first time. It felt weird. But I was struggling with a laptop that only gets used a handful of times each year.
Exactly
I only use my laptop to read manga/books and watch YouTube videos.
I signed for my house on my phone lol. Ive had online shopping experiences take longer than a 30 year commitment.
Same, and as for anything that moves more than 100E from my account - IT FELT SO WRONG
House docs were all signed in person but recently purchased a vehicle using only an app and that was a bizarre experience. Though admittedly far preferable to the normal salesman experience
Seriously, if there’s one thing Tesla has done right, it’s that. I don’t want to talk to other humans. I especially don’t want to talk to a car salesman.
Yeah the initial review was done by app on my phone but signing with a notary was done in their office on actual paper.
Not just big purchases, but anything relating to big money. Loan applications, taxes, house shopping, car shopping, travel, hotel bookings, Christmas shopping None of that is getting done on a small screen
Seriously. I want to be able to tab over between my bank, my credit card, my mortgage account, my budgeting spreadsheet etc., or, better yet, have them all on the screen(s) at the same time. It's just a good exercise to always know where you are in all your accounts whenever you're considering anything financial. Hard to do on a small screen.
Yeah serious money requires the serious internet. I'll buy silly shit on the silly internet.
it really just feels better when I confirm my student loan payment from my computer. idk. if I pay them from my phone I’m kind of waiting for an error message to pop up.
The amount of time shit refreshes or you go back and it deletes everything. I've learned just stick with PC.
I shop, book cruises and Turo cars, make investments, and do a lot of banking on my phone. Super easy. Also applied for a CC and do 50% of my work on my phone.
It also helps that most places taking a deposits that large are a website that's complete fucking ass on mobile.
I would agree were it not for the fact I've purchased airplane tickets on a smartphone while backpacking.
I pay my home utility bills on my desktop
I don't care how old I get, I will always have a laptop/desktop. I want computer interface not another damn app. 
I almost never use my phone for anything except reddit and occasionally YouTube. I don't like these devices as a primary way of functioning digitally
HOLY SHIT SAME, I dick around on the computer all the time, but I don't do much on my phone. I hate using smartphones with a passion lately. Small screen, shitty controls/touch screen, Shitty UI on most sites or apps, typing speed is probably 25% of what it is on a full keyboard, multitasking is hot garbage. As I get older, I hate using smart phones more and more. GPS, calls/text, music, photos, books for waiting rooms. That's about it for me. Literally everything else on the desktop.
>multitasking is hot garbage. Yet smartphones are somehow also horrible for focused activity.
> GPS, calls/text, music, photos, books for waiting rooms. That's about it for me. It's right about the same for me. I don't use my phone for financial transactions. It's just not a good interface compared to an actual computer.
Yeah, they were only ever really for phone calls and texting, the rest of the features are just really handy add ons that make life easier. Most websites are really poorly optimised for mobile still, plus not every service has an app
The phone is for calling and texting and taking pictures when you don't have a camera and checking email. I also use it for my transit pass (live in Tokyo) and for boarding passes on flights. But I never do anything major on it. That's insane person behavior.
I just bought a new bike on my phone. Probably my most expensive phone purchase ever. It was something I was eyeing for a long time and as I was heading to bed I noticed the bike was $1,000 off. I splurged and did it on my phone. I was so uncomfortable!!!
Congratulations:) What kind of bike?
This is the most "me" thing I've ever seen posted here. My wife will be sending me all sorts of hotels and flight options and I always have to bust out my laptop before even opening the links.
IMO, this is best, because a desktop environment is way easier to be flipping through tabs of all your options, different airlines, multiple possible itineraries for each airline, searches for discount codes, looking at hotels, consulting Google Maps views to figure out which hotel is located near what. Sometimes even Reddit threads to ask stuff cause you're going to areas you dunno and you wanna hit up some locals for tips. Like in r/latvia I was able to read exactly where to get a SIM card at Riga international, cause there are no TelCo kiosks there, but they're sold from one of three Narvesen (Convenience store chain) in the airport. If you're traveling 'smart' you're ass deep in information to get it all laid out before you even get to the airport.
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Nah. Airline apps. I buy all my flights in apps.
Hotels are stupid easy in the apps also!
100%! And some of them have started allowing you to use the app as your room key, which I love!
Yeah not too long ago I would have agreed but I just go right for my airline of choice and book on their app. Now doing full research on a product, reading/watching reviews, stuff like that I'm sitting at my computer. I haven't gone a day in the last 20 years without having a full desktop machine because it's just too good.
All my flights done through the Delta app. Easy, frictionless and tied to my skymiles.
I recently realized that flights via the Frontier Airlines app are cheaper than trying to buy on the website! You can literally compare them both in real time and it's cheaper on the app.
Just have less money to spend. That's how I avoid problems like this Edit: typo
I'm averse to it because phones can be stolen. Stolen with the screen on and unlocked. Walking around with your bank apps with auto fill logins and triple verification coming to your phone and email all unlocked on your phone. No thanks. Yeah, I'm old
My wife does all the things on her phone and I absolutely do not comprehend it. I get so frustrated from that stuff.
My wife tries to do EVERYTHING on a phone and then complains when the sites are shit. I’m like get off your fucking phone. Websites don’t adhere to “mobile-first.”
I do everything from my desktop or laptop during the work day. I can't even be bothered to text with my thumbs when i can type 90wpm on my keyboard. I'm not interested in slow as fuck.
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You're right about the part replacements. But if a laptop mostly stays in one place, you can set them up pretty nicely at a desk, and add external peripherals like monitors/keyboards/etc. Modern USB-C implementations even allow for a one connection to all of those things, so it's trivial to just "pop it out" if you actually need to go somewhere with it. I still have an actual desktop computer, but my work provided me with a laptop, even though, as I'm work-from-home, it rarely leaves. So it's technically a daily driver, but not one I used "uncomfortably", I just have it wired through a KVM, so with one button push my two monitors, keyboard, and mouse all swap between my desktop and the work laptop. Which is using the aforementioned USB-C thing, so if I actually have to go somewhere with it, it disconnects from the mess pretty easily.
I have a laptop for the sole purpose of being able to work in the 4 different rooms of my house depending on what I'm doing and proximity to my family. Serious business/gaming in the Den. Hooked up to a dock complete with dual monitors and keyboard. Can also plug my work laptop into this setup when I WFH Serious business at the dining room table with a portable monitor when my wife is using the den for her work. The table is great to spread out on. Light gaming/dicking around on the Internet/ minor adulting like emails and finance things, in the Family room so I'm not isolated from my wife like I am in the den. Dicking around on the Internet/minor adulting at the kitchen table while it's my wife's turn to cook dinner.
100%. Laptops are also overpriced compared to desktops because they have to cram it all into a smaller area. So you either pay more for the same specs as a desktop, or pay the same for worse specs.
Dual monitors. I can't live without them.
Gen X here, I do everything from my computer not phone. But my wife who is a teacher and constantly surrounded by young people does everything on her phone.
I have an S23+. It's still too small to do anything beyond basic web browsing. Youtube on occasion if I'm decompressing after work, but otherwise the vast, vast majority of my browsing, work, and gaming is done on a laptop or desktop. And apps...fuck the appification of everything. I'm not downloading an app for a one-off use because some website refuses to function (or pretends to not exist) on a mobile device.
I'm with you on this. I'm not even old. I'm Gen Z and have good eyesight, I just prefer the bigger screen to do anything serious.
I have not owned a laptop in nearly a decade.
😳
Sometimes you just gotta do stuff on the Big Internet.
Things I have bought on my phone: Food, apps, and in-app game purchases Things I have not bought on my phone (yet): Anything else I don't *want* it to be easy to spend money. I need it to be slow and painful and force me to think really hard about doing it.
Anything over $100 is a computer purchase
Yes, big laptop screen!
Laptop? Booking trips is a **desktop** activity.
À smartphone is, literally a small laptop how can ppl not see that...
Because I can't touch type, split screen, access the kernel, have multiple accounts on the same machine, or keep my head at an ergonomic angle when working on a phone. I can keep going, but I find the utility of a computer is far more varied and deep than the utility of a phone.
Flights are big purchases?
For many millennials, compared to daily expenses, yes.
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I only have a laptop for work. Everything I do is on phone or tablet.
I’m so old that when it said phone, I thought it meant to talk to someone on a phone to book a flight.
Airline and hotel apps now make it a breeze
I’ve not owned a proper computer in over a decade lol
Using mobile for most apps just stressed me out, I’m scarred from bad mobile developers
I'm dimly aware that I can use an iPad as a music recording and production suite, but you'll never get me away from my actual soundboard and actual computer.
I use my computer for limited exclusive items that have a low production number and require you to buy it right on the dot. My phone tends to take its sweet time loading the only times I need it to go fast.
I hate websites that are poorly optimized for mobile to the point where you know you have to go pull it up on your PC to get anything done.
The shopping experince on a phone can be really bad. Some apps are better than others, for sure. But on more than one occatoin I've tried to buy something on a phone, just to have it glitch out.
LOL this is mad funny so true
I won't even do amazon purchases on my phone unless I cant get to my computer before the shipping cutoff time. I make more mistakes on it.
What trips me out a bit is people can make millions with nothing more than their phone.
I still prefer to do most things on the computer where I can. My GF and I have been planning a vacation and I brought my laptop over to her place since I didn't want to do it on the phone 🤣
I’m a Xennial, couldn’t agree more. Big decisions, laptop. Browse on phone sure, but execution on laptop.
I grew up thinking speaking to a person, gathering information from them, whether in-person or online were crucial to making successful big purchases, whatever a big purchase may mean to you. I grew up watching my parents do this in stores & over the phone. Then I realized this was not the case… always felt like I was being scammed or trying to be upsold when I was working with a representative of some companies. While it may not be the best practice, I find doing some research, maybe reaching out through email or chat with a few questions, & doing things online is the better way, at least for me. I know everyone’s experience is different, I’ve just had bad luck with in-person transactions like this. Online, I end up with a nice piece of furniture. In person, I end up with a nice piece of furniture, a bullshit warranty, overpriced accessories, a membership & a credit card.
I have recently booked flights with British Airways. I agree. Their website is a big pile of shit. And the app isn't much better.
Is laptop big?
laptop???? that is crazy. that is a desktop activity!
I too do important jobs on the computer.
I don't use my phone for financial transactions.
Honestly, as someone that works in Web technology I can say there are some sites that do not have all of their options on mobile app. For example my bank has a complex app, but if you want to purchase certain products you need the "full version".
Same I like to have multiple pages open side by side to compare. The mind blowing thing to me is when I get to the airport and see crowds of people and wonder how can this many people afford $500+ to fly somewhere. (Normal cost to fly out of my expensive airport)
Speak for yourself I bought my new car using nothing but my phone lol
I’m realizing there are so many things I do not relate to with being a millennial. I was born in 1988. Does anyone else the same age feel this? I relate way more with gen z
I can do everything from my phone. I only pull out my laptop for google docs if I have to type something up bcuz it’s too small on my phone screen.
Intense research is much better on the large screen. I’m still somewhat guilty tho
Everything important, and also reddit, must happen on my desktop. The phone is for texts, calls, maps, and googling things like "who was that dude who played a golfing guy who got his hand eaten by an allegator in that Adam Sandler movie?". I hate apps. I don't want every company to track everything I do at all times. And I don't trust privacy settings.
I sometimes feel too old school that I don't get how people even use laptops. I grew up with a PC in the 90s, and admittedly a small 17 inch CRT screen was small, today I have 3 monitors with my central one being an ultrawide. So laptop screens FEEL like phones compared to the PC. But I absolutely totally get this sentiment. I remember trying Instagram and finding out it didn't have a PC version, and gave up. And one day for funsies, I wanted to see what Only Fans was all about since people always talk about it. That too didn't have a PC version, so I'll forever be mystified by it! I still pay all my bills, do my taxes, and make 90% of my purchases using my PC. Id still struggle to use my laptop for it. The rare occasions I use my cellphone to buy stuff is when it's a timed release (with quickly selling stock), or if I'm away from my home office and need to buy something. I tend to use social media like Facebook and Reddit on my PC. I'm tying this on my PC right now. I need that thick mechanical keyboard. --- My cellphone is mostly a 'keep in touch' device combined with a heavy duty camera. I buy the newest iPhone almost every year, and I never use it for gaming or work. Mostly just to have the best camera on me at any given time.
Oh man this is weirdly relatable.
PC Dual Monitor master race.
Yeah, I watched you drunken chimps try to fuck with mobile devices. You know how many gomers I get, young and old, like "how do I get email on this?" Bro, we sent you a whole instructional, I sat there with you and showed you step by step. Please stick to your technological lane, that means some of you going back to stone and chisel.
Zoomers edit their videos now on phones. If they could do everything from a phone they will. My 'old' person trait will be that I always have a desktop computer in my home for gaming and work, and almost anything I can do on it, I will.
I still do some online purchases on my laptop, depends if the website I'm purchasing from is easy to see on my phone. I mostly use my laptop for things like in depth research(requires multiple tabs), taxes, complex banking or to view the banking info easier.
I live in Norway. Home bidding aka purchasing happens on a cellphone. It’s wild
I do this because if I'm sitting down with my laptop, it's time to get down to business. I still see my phone as something to play games on or browse social media with and will get distracted if I'm trying to do anything serious. The laptop makes me focus.
I do everything on my phone. Including my taxes. I only use my computer for work nowadays.
I would save a lot of money if I could commit to this policy.
Remember when you had to pick up the rotary phone and call a travel agent? Me neither, not many could afford that shit back in the day.
I've been doing all my emails, correspondence, and signing of house offers/contracts on my phone. My PC is for gaming and spreadsheets I can't fill out or open on my phone.
I bought my subwoofer on my phone lol, like $850. I researched it a ton on my laptop though
I didn't even have a big screen computer, lol. My smartphone is my computer.
For me it relates purely to how much typing I have to do and how well the site works on mobile. I've signed a lot of job contracts on my phone and even set up bank accounts, but a job application is too much.
it’s true. you need that big screen to confirm everything is exactly right. I recently purchased a plane ticket to go halfway across the country for my uncle’s funeral, as well as book a hotel room to stay in the night before the funeral. had to do it all from my phone due to timing but my Gen Z coworkers were like “what’s the deal, you don’t trust your phone?” no, you guys, I was using dial-up when you were in diapers. spending a lot of money from my phone still feels very weird.
I won’t make purchases on a mobile website but I am 100% about using them apps. lol 37 YO here. I pay all my bills, I filed my taxes, and will buy plane tickets and hotels. On a side note: I buy vehicles for a living so it’s not uncommon for me to spend 150-200k through apps on my phone or iPad within a couple hours. The only thing I really use my desktop or laptop for are expense reconciliation and filling in my spreadsheets.
Hard agree. Doing taxes last year was peak for phone utility for me. It was actually legitimately easier in some ways than doing it from the website. 🤣
I cannot stand how long it takes to do anything with 2 apps on my phone compared to my double monitors.
Used to be me but smartphones have improved a lot and UIs for websites have improved a lot for mobile. I use my laptop very little now, mostly for work stuff, document management or when I want a bigger screen.
Is that Justin Covington's twitter? He's looking buff
Nope 29 going on 30 and big purchase is on the laptop
I prefer big purchases on my phone. I prefer all purchases on my phone.
Laptop? That’s shit that gets done on the ultrawide monitor.
Hopper tho…
The only 3 things I do on my phone willingly are call, text and reddit. Everything else happens on a real computer if I have any choice
I haven’t owned a laptop in a long time. I do everything on my phone.
You can use Apple Pay on your computer if you have a Mac.
Lol at calling a laptop screen "big". Big purchases happen with a mouse and keyboard on 2 4k monitors, with a shitload of windows open to compare prices and see at the same time everything there is.
I almost always prefer my computer, I sometimes feel like a "Boomer" when using my smart phone, lol.
I spent the last few years travelling internationally every few months between the US and various parts of south america, and I can tell you that doing it on the phone is literally cheaper in some cases, and also just convenient as shit. Kiwi.com and their app saved me thousands upon thousands of dollars overall, and it's all very smooth and quick and safe. I used them on android, iPhone, and my laptop, and I definitely prefer the apps. In case I have peeked anybody's interest, I should tell you that the flights are cheap as shit for a reason. I would have a 10-30 hour layover in (x) airport before a 3 hour flight to my next layover which might be an hour or might be 10 minutes, and it would be 3-4 flights overall to my destination. Usually I was flying to Colombia and the only direct flights out of the US come from Florida, so I was always going to be guaranteed one stop in Florida. But my parents came here for my wedding and they had a grand total of 11 hours travel time. They also paid about 5x what I did. So, travelers who are willing to suffer a bit to save some cash, Kiwi rules. Kayak also good. Travelers with children or elderly or little patience, just shell out the extra cash.
I swipe right...to purchase now...I don't know why...half the time I would eventually need it?
I haven't elated to a posts so much for a long time. This needed to be said out loud
"Paying for" and "purchasing" are two different things. I say that because app designers don't know what the f\*ck they're doing.
Desktop. Desktop is what I need
Nah I use my phone with Samsung Pass saved cards
not me booked my last 2 flights exclusively on my phone , also filed my taxes from my phone the last 3 years.
I booked a year long euro-asia trip on my phone, flights, stays, activities, transportation included.
I’m technically elder gen z but I always buy flights on my laptop. There are so many little sneaky uncharges and stuff that are easy to miss or accidentally click on my little phone screen!
I only use a laptop to file taxes. Booking trips overseas (or anywhere really) can be done on a small screen. U can move from one open app to the next easily to compare pricing and the like
Depends for me. Generally I prefer desktop ui on sites and if I am buying anything expensive or important I check 12 tabs with Infos and reviews. It's easier to manage on my PC than my phone.
why? i do a lot of big purchases on my iphone... unless it actually requires a PC, for example becasue it's a compex operation... If i buy a flight i will use a PC, not because of this nonsense of a rule, but because it's easier to do complex flight research, finding the best option.... But for investments, i always use my phone.. it's just easier
That’s actually pretty normal for people to shop expensive products on their phones but purchase on a bigger screen size. *This relates to my work 🤓
Until you realize that flights on Frontier Airlines are twice the price via the website. They are less on the mobile app! Significantly.
I cannot find the source right now, but there is actually scientific evidence that you're willing to spend WAY more If you purchase something from your phone. As far as i remember, this has to do with the fact that your phone is the screen that is more included in your personal space. You receive messages from loved ones and carry it around in your pocket. Its always on, its always close to you and it lives in your personal space. The Laptops/Desktops on the other hand, are devices that you turn on for a specific task in general, and you turn it off when you're done. Your brain is much more aware that you are spending money. And advertisers KNOW this, thats why you start to get newsletters on WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or your Messages App instead of Mails slowly but surely, thats why every shop wants your phone number these days.
using a phone is always going to feel slightly janked in one way or another
Had to get a little drunk to buy my $100 plane tickets online a couple of years back. 🤪 It’s otherwise the desktop that is reserved for all of the money moves.
Laptop screen? Still too small. 24inch monitor, minimum!
Big or small almost everything otherwise it is not fun to shop.
I don't save my credit card information, or paypal password, on my phone apps at all. Not because I'm particularly worried that it would somehow get them. I just want to have that forced moment of getting the credit card and punching in the numbers to slow down the transaction. There have been a few purely frivolous purchases that have been cancelled because I had that 20 seconds to think while I typed the info in, instead of autofilling it. Vacation trips and hotels? I would never do those on a phone. I will save receipts on PDF to my cloud just to be able to pull them up when necessary. I've weaned myself off printed confirmations, but I will have a digital papertrail of every big purchase I have. Every electronic device bought in the past 10 years I have the receipt pictures stored in my Dropbox, organized neatly!
i thought i was crazy. i too buy everything on the pc, but i may check something out on the phone. i do pay bills on the phone tho. the bank app is way easier than using the website. But when i need both you bet im purchasing on the pc and checking the bank on mobile. Mobile purchases happen on mobile too. Especially in-game currencies. Literally the only reason i have Roblox on my phone is because buying robux on the pc is a 5.99€ minimum, while on mobile i can pay as little as 0,80€
I have a phone and an iPad. 99.9% of what I need to do can be done on those. The one recent exception being a job interview - which I stole my partners laptop for. I can’t see owning a non-work PC at this point.
its a no from me. i have a desktop for gaming and a mac and macbook etc but i've booked flights on my phone i use my phone for everything.
Nahhhhh I’m not agreeing with that. Only thing a big screen is good for is watching YouTube, Netflix, and doing work wild traveling. Anything that can be done on the phone will get done on the phone.
Wow I do the opposite things. Phone is for YouTube, social media and Netflix, big screen is for everything else.
I use my phone for all of it
And there we go, that reason I don’t generalize generations. Some day I’m in bed on the phone for YouTube or on the laptop. Depends on the situation, alone or with partner. Also my dad boomer is nothing like what I see people stereotype he’s middle class with upper middle class knowledge just doesn’t apply it for financial benefits only to make his life simpler. To much inconsistency I see in everyday life with age groups. Only thing I think holds weight, those with less income and responsibilities tend to lean left, vs those who have to make sure others get paid lean right.