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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   4360 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 27, 2022

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Do you all generally use a computer/keyboard to type your posts and comments? I use an iPhone for pretty much 100% of my Reddit browsing and can’t imagine typing out 2000 word essays on a smartphone.

I pretty much exclusively use my iPhone to do internet things, unless I need to upload or download files (and sometimes I'll just download those to a cloud service via my phone and get to them later).

Don't think I could stand to type so much without Braille Screen Input. And it has had versions where the problems rendered it nigh unusable. A bluetooth keyboard would probably be better, but IDFLI.

I browse on a phone in the AM on my commute, and very rarely use my computer for here or reddit.

Will actively avoid posting from phone, and instead prefer to just remember to comment later when I'm back at my desk. Sometimes it doesn't happen but oh well.

I almost never comment with phone, when I do it's short and I use voice to text.

50/50 PC and smartphone. You can tell which one I'm using by the length of my posts and the typo density.

I do small posts on the phone but anything more than a paragraph I just wait until I can get to my desktop.

I use both.

Desktop PC only. I'll scroll and browse from an iPad, but posting without a keyboard seems too tedious to bother.

iPhone only at the moment

Yes, I use a desktop PC or a laptop. Using a smartphone leads to me lurking more, as I can't be bothered to write a large comment.

I generally try to use a computer for all web browsing. Not all the time (sometimes I'm not at home), but most of the time. Computers are strictly superior to phones in every way except portability.

RiF has a feature to save drafts, which I've found very useful when writing long comments on mobile.

Keyboard, obviously - I could use a phone if it was the only thing available, and have written x000 words on one before. It's annoying, but doable - still better than a typewriter or handwriting! A laptop's much more portable, so I don't have to reach for phone as much

Both. Use phone to reply to comments on my posts.

Use PC to make posts. I'm not high on life enough to bother writing Markdown and HTML formatted comments on my phone.

I'm liable to use my phone, which is perhaps a mistake. The interface can be pretty laggy...though I have similar issues past a certain size in the notes app, so it's probably down to my phone's age. It's particularly bad for citing sources thanks to mobile links and no access to adblocking. Also, the modern web was a mistake.

But on the other hand? It's in my pocket and my desktop is not.

Almost exclusively.

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