Growing old

[cashew]

Briefly debated adjusting font sizes smaller because the words were running off the screen.

Then decided, fuck it, I'm getting old, my eyes will thank me for sticking to bigger font, even if it's not as "aesthetic" as the smaller ones.

Also, everything is sized for mobile these days, it's kind of annoying the fuck out of me. Why can't we just stick to using computers? Why must we download five billion apps to do something PC browser is already immensely good at doing? This is so frustrating. Grrr...

Comments

[tanithryudo]

Probably because there are more mobile users than PC. Because it's cheaper to buy a mobile than PC...

[cashew]

Budget computers are under $500. I mean I know there's super duper budget phones for <$200, but if you want to be able to run all the latest utility apps without maxing out the phone's storage, you'll need like at least a $600 phone. But even a budget computer can handle mainstream browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Opera, etc.), and browsers can basically do everything the mobile apps do.

[tanithryudo]

Hm, true, but mobile phones are...mobile. You can access stuff from anywhere. And smaller means easier to carry around than laptops. Also, the fact that mobile phones have cell service also means you have internet service in places that don't have WiFi. So in terms of convenience, they do have a lot going for them.

[cashew]

The other option is to design the website to work on both mobile and desktop screens since HTML now have mobile detection. But companies are trying to force people to switch to apps when they can easily just make their mobile version of websites have the same function because...obnoxious I guess.

[tanithryudo]

Cuz it's cheaper and faster to make just one version than multiple.