Has anyone else become tired of the burden of maintaining multiple personal computers and mobile devices?
I currently have a tablet, a smartphone, a desktop and a laptop, but I'm thinking about just getting a flagship phone and a good laptop because I'm tired of wasting time maintaining so many personal devices and jumping between them.
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my thoughts, honestly
Skip the laptop and go full convergence
This is a bit too much, I don't want to rely on a single device for everything. A smartphone + laptop seems minimal enough while still having some redundancy.
Yes, keeping the devices with the same config is so tiring, so I took the laptop pill because I don't really game anymore, only old stuff and emulators (and rarely). Will not sell my desktop in case I want to play some heavy game. Then I just have an Android phone but I only use it for calling and messaging. Take the tech minimalist pill.
>maintaining
jesus christ it's not like its a fricking car, there's no fricking LTE fluid you have to change periodically
you PLUG IT IN TO THE WALL and it keeps working forever
how moronic do you homosexuals get?
>do you have the same files an all computers
>do you have the same software installed
>do you have the same operating system configurations
Yeah, it's not a massive deal, but I've started to feel like it's just unnecessary mental load when I could just get one good laptop and a good smartphone, ditch everything else and stop worrying so much.
>>do you have the same files an all computers
network shares
>>do you have the same software installed
have the software on network drive
>>do you have the same operating system configurations
SCCM can do that on windows
>SCCM
holy frick, why would you want to setup this garbage and spend time creating configs? what a waste of computing powera and hours
>do you have the same files an all computers
no
>do you have the same software installed
no
>do you have the same operating system configurations
no
You don't need any of this, stop wasting your time.
My approach is to have one primary machine and perhaps a NAS (or Cloud if that's your thing). I personally have all those devices but they are all secondary to my laptop+NAS: my desktop essentially just for photoshop and steam and tablet for video conferencing.
My primary concern is usually "where is my data" but I could lose my secondary devices with no major loss.
>Has anyone else become tired of the burden of maintaining multiple personal computers and mobile devices?
Not really, if anything, it makes my life comfier.
>an Ubuntu server running Nextcloud
>a MacBook for casual use and leisure
>a Windows desktop for anything semi-serious
>Nextcloud instantly syncs only the folders I need between the computers
>The phone doesn't really need any maintenance but has access to Nextcloud as well
Nextcloud syncs calendars, notes and bookmarks and it's the best IQfy meme after the personal server itself.
That's a dream set up anon
Unfortunately I have other priorities, otherwise I would have a set up like yours
I have a full-time job, a side one, a couple of hobbies outside of tinkering with software, and a gf (arguably one of the most time consuming things you can get).
The setup took me a couple of evenings after I learned the basics of self-hosting and hardening (5 evenings more).
The hardware was $150 and it will actually start saving my money after a while.
Yeah but it's nice to have a backup computer.
That sounds like an ok solution, but then again I don't know if you really need two computers if you can afford a good laptop and don't need a lot of power. You can just dock it and get rid of the desktop.
holy frick how papered can westerners be?
being bothered by how much expensive electronic gadgets you have
You might not get it if you are a poorgay, but having too much stuff can actually become annoying. It doesn't make sense to hoard stuff you don't really even use, you should focus on the things that really matter
>holy frick how papered can westerners be?
>papered
I think you mean pampered my third world fren
You sound like a giant homosexual.
Why? I already work in IT and I don't really feel like doing the same shit on my free time when I'm done with work.
The don't do it? What the frick are you complaining about?
this. OP literal gay blogposting. Who the frick gets anxiety seeing a desktop, laptop, and phone. Get a life you fricking homosexual they are tools.
>MBP M1 MAX for work
>Fold 3 for work
>iPhone X for personal
>iPad Pro Gen 2 for work
>3 year old gaming laptop for occasional CAD since the Mac can't run Solid works lol
>EReader
Take the Mac with me for hard work. Remote into gaming PC when working away from standing desk. Fold 3 is my workhorse. iPhone X is for banking, iMessage and personal life shit (Tesla Key, Crypto Wallet)
Find a workfloe that works for you and use the rest as backup. Easy as.
I also don't like being so scattered across devices. Anything I would do on a laptop I've managed to move to doing on my phone: note taking/journaling, email, browsing, even a lot of photo editing i would've previously done in photoshop. I have a simple website with iframes and can easily edit the content of the iframes on mobile if needed. keeps me from wasting more time online because of the size despite phones being notorious for keeping everyone hooked. Actual work and games are for desktop... And my morning image browsing with coffee.
Moved around with my desktop quite a bit, just buckle the pc into a passenger seat en route to our new home lol.
Abandon desktop and laptop. Replace them with a cheap SBC running your favorite flavor of Linux.
When you want to program, just use a tablet or phone to ssh into the SBC. When you want to do normie things like watch YouTube or shitpost on IQfy use the phone or tablet.
>Has anyone else become tired of the burden of maintaining multiple personal computers and mobile devices?
No, globohomo, we haven't
Take your meds, nobody has said that you shouldn't own things. Just that you should focus on quality over quantity
I'm gonna keep using my collection of pre-backdoor machines and you can't stop me schlomo
"Tired of the burden" not exactly. I keep my OS on an external SSD and use it on both my desktop and my laptop, so it's no burden.
However, simply *owning* so many devices is against the philosophy I want to live by.
I bought a pinephone and a nexdock. If they work out for me, I'm gonna try to sell all the other tech I own.
Maintaining? What maintaining? No? Just use the fricking thing?
I took the same pill anon. But tbh you don't don't need a flagship phone, just a half decent laptop.
But I do also have 2x Pis - 1 for kodi on TV and 1 as a basic FTP/git/torrent server.
I would not get another computer now, except to replace an existing one
I don't need the same software on each device I own, my personal stuff is all accessible from my NAS if I ever need them but other than that every device have its separate purpose
>maintaining
so you are a moronic updooter or something?
It's just really comfy to use a laptop as your main device. The fact that you can just throw the laptop into a bag and have the same computing environment when traveling just makes life easier.
Stfu
>Stfu
It's really not that hard