Lol!

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@stux nope. In fact, phone-autofill (like Apple Pay) is some tasty tasty stuff. I’m frantically trying to find a way to de-Apple, de-Google, de-Meta while retaining that.

[lovingfalloutlondon1954@mastodon.social]

@stux

Nope. No phone purchases.

Nope. No laptop purchases.

Gaming grade desktop with a LAN printer for printing receipts only.

[leldorion@hachyderm.io]

@MarcelNBG @piyuv @stux This work with user agent switching as well I'd assume?

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@stux Considerations include whether I might need to open other documents or windows to look things up or whether I'll want to print or save the end result.

[spacebug@social.n2.mikronod.se]

@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

[bluesharp@musicians.today]

@stux
I don't do any banking or buy anything on my phone. That is reserved for the computer. Can't trust the phone.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@stux THIS.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@stux at one point, I watched, in existential horror, as an acquaintance bought a used car, financed, on her phone.

Yes, I twitched, a lot. Then, I drove her to the place, to sign paperwork and pick the newER wheels up.

That was a couple of years ago. I haven't recovered, yet.

[vocalone@mstdn.social]

@stux I am this way too. I think it is because it is easier to have a lot of tabs open and compare options on a computer.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@stux
I never buy anything on a phone or tablet. Using a Smartphone since 2000. Tablet since 2006.

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@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).

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@stux Because tickets on phones are more expensive than on the computer.

[cafechatnoir@mastodon.social]

@stux

Yes! Some things need the Big Internet.

[twinkle@sweet.succubi.services]

@stux@mstdn.social idk im gen z and i do that all the time

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@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"

[ranx@mastodon.social]

@stux for me "phone purchases" do not exist, period. But I'm a Gen X, what do I know right?

[semantikast@openbiblio.social]

@stux me too!!

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@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

[phantom49@mastodon.social]

@stux glad to know other people think alike somehow apps like Google Pay break this fear tho

[trebach@functional.cafe]

@loganer @stux For the purposes of buying things, unless it's one of netbooks or Chromebooks, I consider them the same as desktops