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Jacket right: tissues, other Jacket left: phone, collapsible mouse, ID, public transport card, chewing gum

these can also be in my respective pants pockets if i dont have a jacket

Task manager: not responding

macbook pro /e free

I resonate with that point, since I do a digital art/tech class, which uses Macs. I find app crashes and the inaccessibility of certain menus quite infuriating, i even somewhat rage internally for a while until i either quit what i was doing or search it up.

When my 8 year old Fedora laptop freezes, crashes, or sound drivers crash like what happened yesterday, I stay very calm and think of a solution, such as updating and restarting.

even if I haven’t built the OS myself or really customised it at all, i find it more calming that i have options to completely change the software compared to locked down OSes.

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I definitely agree, though I’d also add the Australia/New Zealand region as well, since we are also reasonably heavy users of phones too. Also I’m from Victoria, Australia by the way, it’s pretty fascinating how diverse the internet is :)

Clicks on website for super specific information you need quickly

Attempt to scroll

Signing you in with google with an account you didn’t know you had

Page restarts

Page lags for a few seconds

Manually press sign out button hidden under 3 different menus

Wait for page to reload

Somehow remember the information you were looking for from prior knowledge, so now you no longer need the website

This happens to me so fucking often, it’s so infuriating, especially when I am passionately researching about some random topic or getting some info on how to do something in a game, it’s painful.

I guess it lands differently in other parts of the world and is more nuanced than I previously anticipated, since, where I live we are quite agnostic between devices to message with, some use phones, some use tablets, some use laptops, and it goes on. As for my friend group, none of us communicated using phones until mid 2022, two years into our friendships.

Since we all moved to our senior campus, we are just now emphasising smartphones as a daily method of communication, compared to our previous default, laptops and desktops, but we normally use the same apps/sites we used to, specifically discord and Instagram.

Again, I believe it depends on the area, maybe in other parts they use phones much more often compared to us, or some may never use phones at all.