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[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 15 points 1 year ago

Y'all don't know/remember the struggle. My "apps" used to be 2 or 3 forums -- and not particularly active forums, at that -- that I would check repeatedly, all day long, during downtime at work. Posts and comments were rare.

I do not miss those days.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I don't even understand why people want to look at phone apps all day. I hate browsing the Internet on a phone screen usually, it's so inferior to having a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

I mean if you're at work or whatever and you're bored, I can see wasting time on phone apps, but any other time I don't. But of course if you don't have a computer you can't just use the computer you don't have.

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's much easier to use touch than a mouse? Swipe keyboard are almost faster. And apps are just a more minimalist version of a desktop site. All the content, none of the clutter. I despised Reddit on my laptop.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely not. Mouse and keyboard are FAR faster than anything you can do on a touch screen.

I'll take you on in a typing contest if you disagree. I can type about 90 WPM on keyboard.

EDIT: I overestimated my typing speed. 64 WPM on my first and only try on typingtest dot com -

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Um, ok calm down. I was only making a theory.

[-] danque@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yes the 'hi guys I have a problem with this program and it's doing this any solutions?' And then you would have a reply maybe in a week or with bad luck a month. I'd usually just go to a IRC chatroom and ask it there.

[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

so you would have 1 weird guy reply after a few hours while 10000 other people just watched...

[-] danque@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Usually also in the trend of 'i have this too, how to fix it?'

[-] InputZero@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Even worse when you see every post incremented by one or more. Either a racist troll had stumbled their way in or an ad-bot was spam posting. Either way, took a few days for the mods to get around to cleaning it up. Passwords for every board was the only way to slow it down. They were not the good old days.

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