5h on smartphone feels way worse than 5h on PC.
Desktop screen time is more often intentional.
Posture
Smartphones make productive or creative activities difficult and brainrot activities very easy.
Another way to look at it.
Phones are for consuming, desktops are for creating (generally)
I’d say most people who use a desktop PC in the first place also use it for content consumption, probably even primarily. Definitely an “and” situation, not an “either/or” one.
Sure hence the generally.
Still for every gamer watching Netflix there are probably 5 office admins using their Dell optiplex to book appointments or handle a call at a call center.
Yeah I was gonna say this. Even just focusing on Lemmy/Piefed, when I’m on the phone I’m just scrolling, maybe sometimes making a short comment. When I’m on the PC I’m editing images to post, or typing longer comments.
I didn’t grow up on a PC, so I feel more comfortable editing images and making long-form content on a phone. I think it’s the social media on the phone that fucks me up
I’m going to guess you never learned to touch type. The thought of writing long-form content on a phone keyboard makes my thumbs cramp up.
Can you recomment some good image-editing sofrware for phones? I haven’t found any that work for me yet. Thanks.
It’s not the best and I’m not sure if they’re good but I use FotoGrid and Sketchbook. I also use noads.libredns.gr so that I wouldn’t be bombarded with ads on mobile, especially for FotoGrid.
Very interesting, thanks, I used LeafPic for a while but it keeps crashing (on a relatively older phone).
Go to answer a text and when you return to the lemmy tab your whole reply is gone.
You need to set the battery usage as Unrestricted on your phone, and disable sleeping tabs on your PC.
You shoudld also make sure “RAM Plus” or “RAM Extension” is enabled if you have an Android phone and the swap/page file is enabled on your PC.
The only reliably persistent thing which keeps running in background is Termux.
I don’t know how, but it just doesn’t die in background. I also use it for downloads with wget. I can lock the phone, and it will keep working until it’s done. Any browser just has a high chance of dying.Make sure the browser’s battery usage is set to unrestricted and the swap file (called “RAM Plus”, “RAM Extension” or similar) is enabled and set to a high amount.
Get yourself a lemmy app. I use Voyager and my drafts are saved between fuckin’ reboots
(And no, as far as I can tell it doesn’t have any tracking)
A web UI could keep drafts indefinitely like that too. It doesn’t even need to send anything to the server; local storage has been a thing in browsers for a long time.
Go to answer a text and when you return to the lemmy tab your whole reply is gone.
What app are you using to compose responses?
If it doesn’t have enough memory, Android will kill an app…but my understanding — I haven’t written Android software — is that apps are supposed to be able to save state before this happens.
I’d think that if the app isn’t saving state, that’d probably be an app bug.
If you want to use that particular client, you might be able to work around it by composing your response in a Markdown editor (that does save state before being killed) and then just pasting it into the reply.
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PC activities can be shit or can be worthwhile, smartphone activities are all shit activities designed to be as shit as possible, any worthwhile activity will take you 1 minute to finish.
Ergonomics. Aside from a few specific tasks (e.g. actual phone calls) or for something quick enough that it isn’t even worth going over to the computer, I use my phone sparingly when I’m home.
I chock this one up to generational prejudice. Both are useful computers that can accomplish essentially the same thing.
“Phone bad” was already sentiment being pushed before smartphone ecosystems became enshittified.
Phone=downtime Computer=work
Sometimes work is for the man, sometimes work is for me!
Eye strain with small display, typing on a touchscreen, and looking down at a smartphone are all much worse ergonomics than a desktop. At least for myself, the desktop is for productivity (work, hobbies) and the smartphone is for entertainment stuff generally. One feels better than the other after a day.
You do very different things on smartphone screens and desktop screens, don’t you?
I don’t. I browse lemmy on both, watch youtube on both, explore maps with both and write text messages on both. I actually struggle to think of anything I only use one or the other for besides operating the podcast player and making phone calls.
Do you have the same feeling as OP, though? Does smartphone time feel worse than desktop time, with the same activities?
Phones have tiny screens, much harder to read than on a big screen.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30/quantification
relevant Penny Arcade
I feel that way giving kids computers. A Linux laptop CAN be source of brain rot (ala the internet) but an to a tablet or phone is almost guaranteed via the apps it has.
I don’t feel my phone time is any worse than my laptop time. Maybe because I keep notifications off except for email and Signal on my phone so it’s not asking for my attention all the time.
There are times I have my desktop, laptop, phone and Steamdeck all going and have to check myself and dial the over-stimulation down a bit.
Four at the same time? I guess we do have four extremities to control four at once…
