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I use a desktop or laptop computer almost daily in my personal life. Mobile devices are terrible for actual productivity. And security. And usability.

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Cameras and microphones that have no physical disconnect. Virtual keyboards. NSA subsidies for cheap phones sold in poor areas. Zero visibility or access to OS components without special steps.

Windows let users install and run any junk binary to their appdata folder by default. That’s why cryptolocker got real popular around 2010. Granted this isn’t supporting my point, but admin is not required in a lot of instances.

I guess I’m saying I disagree with your disagreement. Non-mobile is far more secure. My desktop and laptops do all of the stuff you listed as mobile capabilities.

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I volunteer at the public library. Almost all the people who come in are phones only, and totally lost on a PC. They come in to fill out gov’t PDFs that won’t open on their phones and to print stuff out. My classmates, in the IT program (!) have a lot of trouble navigating on their laptops, and only a couple of us have desktops at all.

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Who goes into IT without knowing how to use a computer?

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People hear that it’s a higher paying office job that has a low barrier for entry, not realizing that continuing education and constant learning are mandatory. If you don’t have a passion for it, you struggle.

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I ask myself that on a regular basis.

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Probably the old assumption “there’s money in computers” is still guiding some people into the wrong field.

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I know someone who just started studying game development. No prior programming experience required. I guess that’s not a problem as long as you do your homework properly.

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I’d say programming / comp sci are kind of different skill sets. Working in IT basically just requires that you know how to use a computer - I’ve met plenty of devs who are pretty poor with their OS.

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I work with a number of developers who don’t know how to find and edit a file on their computer.

Literally.

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I can smell the Javascript from here.

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The blue collar people I know only use a phone for personal computing, I have a spare laptop I lend to co workers so they can complete CBT and badging if a phone won’t cut it.

More than once I’ve had both my personal laptop and the loaner at a jobsite so the crew can get badged quicker.

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Damn, I haven’t heard about using a laptop for CBT but that shit probably hurts - that’s gonna be a wide surface area for impact.

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My brain: Uncomfortable image of slamming the lid shut

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Shit, I just thought of using it as a flat bludgeoning object… I think you have a future as a kinksmith. That’s the special kind of creative thinking.

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In the BDSM community CBT stands for cock & ball torture.

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In the mental health community CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

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That’s the first explanation I was able to find, and I still don’t know what everyone here is talking about. Why do Americans love to use so many acronyms for anything and everything?

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Some of the training matches

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Desktop computer mainly, sometimes a laptop. Tablets are painful to use IMO

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Phone is for work only. Tower PC for everything else.

I’m probably an outlier.

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m8 literally everyone on the fediverse is an outlier 😅

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My thoughts exactly. The number of Linux users and programmers here may distort the picture OP gets from these comments.

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