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After reading:
gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2022-12-04-what-happened-to-mobile-rant.gmi
gemini://rawtext.club/~winter/gemlog/2023/6-14.gmi
I've always been more comfortable using computers, not just because typing on a touchscreen keyboard is generally more uncomfortable (I've begun to handwrite on my tablet with a stylus and it's marginally better), but because the interfaces always felt extremely limited and uncomfortable to use. The lack of space to comfortably fit two windows on the same screen really kills it for me.
And when I'm traveling and don't have a laptop on me:
It's funny, all of them except banking verifications I do more regularly on my computer, and my phone feels like a proxy tool of some sort. I use Discord on it to read, but never to write longform, or just tell someone when I'm hopping into a call; I'll wait until I get home and can use my keyboard. Tagging and queuing posts on Tumblr is a Computer Affair.
The degree in which having to own a smartphone nowadays is a necessity to interact with any kind of 2FA pisses me off, and how the mass production is both convenient and has a wild environmental impact. Plus, planned obsolescence.
I'm a Pixel phone user because I do photography as a hobby and they have a few of the best cameras while remaining affordable, but man, they're releasing multiple models a year and not maintaining the older ones at all.
A lot of my friends don't own a computer or can't use it comfortably due to their personal disabilities, and it's planted the seed of doubt in my mind on whether they're so unnecessary after all.
This entry doesn't have any real conclusions, but I wanted to jot down my thoughts on the matter, in case I decide to analyze further.