stuxโก๏ธLol! I am like that!
Small purchase on a small device, big purchase on a big device
stony kark@stux i do this but only because mobile websites are almost always horrible and/or broken due to all the ad blockers
๐ฝ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ป@stux medium purchases on medium device?
(medium device being a laptop)
Trebach
cranky hedgehog ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐@stux yup, me too
Chirayu 
Gigi ๐โ๐ซ@mountdiscovery @stux @mercurial
I'm Gen-X and I have no problem buying shit on my phone.
My concession, though, is I refuse to use anything but temporary cards bought for that purpose.
BeeCycling@stux For sure. I don't want to be looking at something potentially costing hundreds of ยฃ/$ on a phone screen where I can easily accidentally brush the Buy Now button while trying to scroll down, or clear a bloody popup.
Mick Howarth@stux Yep, definitely feel this. Some amounts just need focus.
Niko Trimmel@mick_howarth I also thing it's mainly a focus thing. When I'm travelling without a computer, I will make these kind of purchases on a phone - but in a quiet environment, after checking alternatives, and thoroughly planned through. @stux
Lydia Conwell@stux For me it's mostly about ease. If it's easy on a phone, sure, but sometimes a computer with a keyboard is just less hassle.
Danny Boling โฎ๏ธ
B O@stux my gen-z brother-in-law taught me that booking.com offers better prices on its mobile app. Yes, really, even when Iโm signed in to my account on web
MarcelNBG
Phil Dennis-Jordan@MarcelNBG @piyuv @stux No, for some hotels they literally offer an โapp discountโ so you find the same room in the same place while logged in as the same user, and itโll be 5% cheaper on the phone.
It does only affect some specific places, and I havenโt seen it since 2024 so Iโm not sure if it still exists. (It definitely saved us 5% on some bookings in Australia 2 years ago; still did the research on the computer first.)
It does only affect some specific places, and I havenโt seen it since 2024 so Iโm not sure if it still exists. (It definitely saved us 5% on some bookings in Australia 2 years ago; still did the research on the computer first.)
Charlie Stross@stux Ah, Gen Z. Or, as we used to call them, kids.
qurlyjoe
alphabeta
zombiecideใ้ฆฌ้@stux my phone is the device 2FA is sent to, so not the one I use for purchases?
Bruno Girin@stux Same.
Plus anything to do with travel usually requires comparing options, which is better done on a large screen.
Plus anything to do with travel usually requires comparing options, which is better done on a large screen.
Domobert Dak 
Imagine the older brother would have replied:
"Because it's something you buy on a device where you have a browser with an adblocker and where you don't need glasses or have to squint like Clint Eastwood to read the text."
tze
lb1a
ResunaIt depends on whether the phone app or the website is more shit, and whether I have to research anything. Researching anything on a mobile device is getting worse because both Apple and Google are making their operating systems more aggressive about killing background processes which kills any transactions in flight. So you really need two devices.
It also explains why in Star Trek you get people juggling a handful of tablets.
Chu ๆฑ
Marta Threadbare@stux when you have nothing else, a big purchase can also be a Nintendo DS Browser purchase (happened with one of my PCs)
Lauren Weinstein@stux If they knew how the mobile versions of these systems are designed to manipulate users even more than the desktop view versions, they might better understand.
Pete Alex Harris๐ฆก๐ธ๏ธ๐ฒ/โ๐ชโซ@stux
Yeah, if a purchase requires opening multiple browser tabs to check/compare things, I'm not doing that on a phone.
Yeah, if a purchase requires opening multiple browser tabs to check/compare things, I'm not doing that on a phone.
Duke
Kevin Karhan 
Coach Pฤแนini ยฎ (@[email protected])
These are the rules of a civilized, disciplined society.
Reinald Kirchner@stux definitely. Some things ask for research, comparing stuff. Big screen with multiple windows, proper keyboard and no autocorrect for searching the right things...
Like shops don't give me the full search result on the phone - just limited options. And I bet my ass - not the cheapest ones!
So yeah, very few purchases are phone purchases for me.
Next thing to our horror will be: "why don't you let your AI assistent buy that for you?"
I_give_u_worms@stux a notebook or desktop you can have two windows where when you switch screens and the first screen doesn't drop it's shit and act like you are a new person
@stux especially infuriating when you switch to get one thing then switch again for some email verification for a site that does nothing to deserve such a level of trust
Westcoastmaven ๐จ๐ฆ@stux Typing on a phone keyboard is nearly impossible for me to do with my big fingertips. Letters are way too small. Computer, with the larger keys is a must for me.
D2
Plausible Human BeingNope. No phone purchases.
Nope. No laptop purchases.
Gaming grade desktop with a LAN printer for printing receipts only.
Braid in trains 
- solidarity with 
@stux I'm glad I'm thereby officially not gen Z.
lopta
Stefan@stux I'v heard about two girls wanting to travel to Kos, so they sat at the airport and waited for a cheap travel to show up on the website. One of them found one and booked on her phone.
Problem was the phone autocorrected Kos to Kosovo and she didn't notice.
I don't think she was allowed doing the bookings after that ๐
Problem was the phone autocorrected Kos to Kosovo and she didn't notice.
I don't think she was allowed doing the bookings after that ๐
@stux
I don't do any banking or buy anything on my phone. That is reserved for the computer. Can't trust the phone.
I don't do any banking or buy anything on my phone. That is reserved for the computer. Can't trust the phone.
Faraiwe
vocalone
Ray McCarthy@stux
I never buy anything on a phone or tablet. Using a Smartphone since 2000. Tablet since 2006.
I never buy anything on a phone or tablet. Using a Smartphone since 2000. Tablet since 2006.
MacCruiskeen@stux I don't like to order anything bigger than a burrito on my phone. Even then, I might at least switch to my ipad (easier to see what's going on).
canleaf08โ
ๅ ๆฟๅคง่ๅญ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โง๏ธ๐ช๐บ๐@stux Because tickets on phones are more expensive than on the computer.
@stux And sometimes I need a bigger image of something which no phone can convey, this is not about purchases, which require sit down and a computer, but also having the possibility to see if it fits into my itinerary... Having a spreadsheet of your travel can and should be only done with a computer.
Play Ball and Fight FascistsYes! Some things need the Big Internet.
LisPi
๐ฉท Stella @stux idk im gen z and i do that all the time
@stux When I buy something expensive and/or with too many options, I prefer the "computer purchase" because I don't want to regret later about something that was too small or off screen - "accepting the purchase you hereby transfer to the flight operator the rights to change the destination to any country of the world, including war zones and areas under environmental risk. This is not reimbursable"
G ๐ฎ๐น@stux for me "phone purchases" do not exist, period. But I'm a Gen X, what do I know right?
Argie
phantom49
Gary ๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ช๐บ@stux Yep, that's me through and through.
Jmvars
riese
the elder sea@stux
The Credit Card gets entered with The Num Pad only.
The Credit Card gets entered with The Num Pad only.