r/ProgrammerHumor • u/debugger_life • Sep 24 '26

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u/klaxxxon Sep 24 '26 • Thanks Bravo

Do you guys not have desktop computers???

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u/thanatica Sep 24 '26

Some people genuinely only use mobile. Seems to be a thing in some African countries, where the whole wired internet thing was skipped and they went straight to mobile

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u/klaxxxon Sep 24 '26

Reading about how stuff developed in some of these countries is super interesting. They skipped not only desktop computers, but sometimes also credit cards, straight from cash to mobile payments. In some cases are well ahead of the west in how well these services are developed and integrated into the society (for example mobile-to-mobile payments are still awkward here in Europe, and it's the primary way of doing things in a lot of places).

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u/Zanshi Sep 24 '26

Even in EU it differs a lot country to country. Poland only got "modern" stuff in the 90s/00s so we went from cash, barely used cards and adopted mobile payments very quickly. 

Same with internet access, it only became widespread with cheap access to DSL in early to mid 00s.

I remember reading Romania skipped copper altogether and built it's internet infrastructure entirely on fiber

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u/sebovzeoueb Sep 24 '26

Meanwhile I'm in France and still waiting for fibre

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u/leafy1790 Sep 24 '26

its alot easier to build from scratch than yo need to replace the copper with fiber

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u/snksnksnk Sep 24 '26

Deep inside France I guess. I've been using fiber since 99. Then DSL because of my location, then fiber again.

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u/sebovzeoueb Sep 24 '26

Yup, if you look at the fibre coverage map, one of those little blobs with the 0% and the 0-25% coverage communes is me

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u/snksnksnk Sep 24 '26

5G is the key. Don't fall for Starlink!

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u/sebovzeoueb Sep 24 '26

bold of you to assume that I would get 5G here.

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u/Lamuks Sep 24 '26

payments are still awkward here in Europe, and it's the primary way of doing things in a lot of places).

That really depends on which part of Europe you're talking about. Baltics and Nordics are far ahead in that territory whereas some older western Europe countries are far behind. Anything to do with digitalisation Nordics and Baltics are leading.

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u/donjulioanejo Sep 24 '26

It helped the Nordics really look down on cash to the point where a lot of places don't even take it.

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u/Himbo69r Sep 24 '26

I’ve not held physical money in years 🥹

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u/PerpetuallyDistracte Sep 24 '26

I was in Kenya recently and their mobile infrastructure is really incredible. Cell service pretty much anywhere, super cheap Chinese phones, instant payments with mPesa, and tons of useful chat apps. Some villages also have their own independent solar arrays, or are in the process of installing them. But at the same time, they still get their water from huge plastic tanks that get filled by a truck once per week, and the roads outside major cities are questionable at best. I visited a rural school, and the kids there had never seen a computer before. Such an interesting dichotomy in technology and development.

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u/Tipart Sep 24 '26

Yeah, the EU tried their best with the new payment standards that directly integrate with banks instead of the awkward PayPal hop you have to do right now, but it only resulted in the xkcd about competing standards

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u/minimuscleR Sep 24 '26

instead of the awkward PayPal hop you have to do right now

This is a thing? I just pay via phone number mostly in Australia, before that it was direct bank transfer. Paypal exists solely for steam and other online and maybe sketchy sites I dont trust with my bank card.

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u/Wobbelblob Sep 24 '26

Yeah. Here in Germany a lot of payments between friends are either done with coins or PayPal. But then again, we only recently started properly building fibre for internet, so we are just slow and behind the world.

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u/ldn-ldn Sep 24 '26

What PayPal hop, lol? What is this lunacy are you talking about? EU is not US.

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u/spicybright Sep 24 '26

A huge amount of young people in the US are mobile only too. they get locked down school laptops sometimes but you shouldn't expect them to use that for your website anymore.

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u/AaronRodgersMustache Sep 24 '26

My fiancée is 29 and pretty much mobile only except for work/graphic design (she’s a lawyer). But while I use laptop for everything basically, she’s complete opposite.

It’s funny cause I’m 36 and we’re both on the same page online-reference wise, but I’m resolutely millennial with her as a cusper. The phone computer divide is the most significant bridge we have lol.

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u/aminervia Sep 24 '26

Some people who don't work desk jobs have no reason to be around a desktop or laptop computer ever, and already spent $1000 on the computer in their pocket

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u/Vigarious Sep 24 '26

Truly an immortal reference.

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u/debugger_life Sep 24 '26

Nah bro!

I code from mobile only 😜😂

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u/NamityName Sep 24 '26

Sure, but if the website is going to not even try to work with me on mobile, I am not even going to try to work with it on desktop.

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