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Post by tayo42 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #165
leptons wrote: post #154

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I hope you don't think booking travel ends with the flights. There's so much more to getting the most out of a trip than the flight, or the hotel.

That's the thing for us whose life is mostly "by the seat of their pants", there really isn't. You book the tickets, you go there, see what you feel like doing, do those things, and go home. Done that for all my travels more or less, never felt like I missed anything and had a blast most of the times. I still do everything important on a computer and wouldn't book the flight on a smartphone, but that probably says mo…

I don't over plan trips, but I still want to make sure I'm not overpaying. There's all kinds of combinations of things to check. Also thinking through routes through areas. Fly in, take a train around. Things like that. Also getting hotels or vacation rentals and go through the reviews and seeing which neighborhoods you want to stay in

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Post by D-Coder »

genghisjahn wrote: post #180
MrGilbert wrote: post #47

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> We keep hearing that the next generation is "true computer" illiterate. We had that development with cars. 40 years ago, it was common to fix your own car. Nowadays, we have a subscription for seat warmers. The manual tells you to visit the dealer to get your brakes checked. Makes me sad, somehow. But people have choosen this path as a collective.

Cars are a lot safer now. People routinely walk away from collisions that would have killed everyone in the vehicle back in 70s. So there is some gain to the trade off.

"Cars are a lot safer now" does not seem related to "40 years ago, it was common to fix your own car" to me.

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Post by Miserlou57 »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #111
gigatexal wrote: post #94

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Mac hardware has been the best it’s ever been. Though if the Mac Pro with all those slots could run nvidia GPUs I’d be even crazier I think.

Crazier if Apple got into the GPU business.

Serious question because I don’t know about this sort of thing:

Apple’s investment in building its own in-house “Apple Silicon” is large. Can anyone definitely prove they haven’t been working on the sort of AI GPU stuff that NVidia has been?

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Post by JSR_FDED »

leptons wrote: post #156
JKCalhoun wrote: post #109

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It's hard to see someone living under a rock for this long suddenly deciding to switch the Mac. I suspect iPhone adoption has done a lot more toward Mac adoption.

We have a 2015 MPB that can no longer receive OS updates, because apple reasons. And because it can't get the latest OS, it can no longer run Signal, or the latest Adobe stuff that we need. So we ditched Apple and bought a Dell. So far it's working great.

For certain non-critical computers (like my Mac mini in the living room whose primary job is to run Spotify), you might want to look at Open Core - which will let you update to a modern macOS.

It’s a great feeling to get years more life out of your old system with about an hour of work.

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Post by rk06 »

Razengan wrote: post #212
j1elo wrote: post #105

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I really don't get how people do research work (like finding good flight tickets, or comparing hotels to stay in for a trip) without a computer. I really cannot stand seeing websites in a small screen without the ability to quickly open 4 browser windows with 4 tabs each for different combinations of dates, for example.

> I really don't get how people do research work … without a computer People used to do it in their heads. Einstein, Tolkien, Hawking, Newton, Shakespeare, Euclid, Archimedes. With paper being an storage medium they occasionally saved to :) > (like finding good flight tickets, or comparing hotels to stay in for a trip) Heck I was doing EXACTLY that on an iPhone while loafing at a friend's just now, because I wanted t…

you mean very intelligent and very smart people used to do it in their head without computer or calculator

these days only idiots would do so on pen and paper only

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Post by shermantanktop »

embedding-shape wrote: post #165
leptons wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you don't think booking travel ends with the flights. There's so much more to getting the most out of a trip than the flight, or the hotel.

That's the thing for us whose life is mostly "by the seat of their pants", there really isn't. You book the tickets, you go there, see what you feel like doing, do those things, and go home. Done that for all my travels more or less, never felt like I missed anything and had a blast most of the times. I still do everything important on a computer and wouldn't book the flight on a smartphone, but that probably says mo…

I admire your style, and envy it, at least a little.

But I couldn’t do it, especially with the presence of which I’ll call “expectations of planning” in my immediate circle. Some people want the best possible experience and can’t be confident they aren’t missing out unless they have done the research.

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Post by lurking_swe »

koyote wrote: post #166
jdross wrote: post #115

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How often do you get a meaningfully better result than google.com/flights? Outside of booking with points, it's all basically the same thing and I can book on google on my phone in under a minute

I could go into detail how being able to have a dozen tabs open almost always gives a better result than simply picking the first flight on google flights. But let's assume there's no difference: Do you really want to use a phone's on-screen keyboard to type in your family's passport details, address, then credit card numbers, then review all of this to ensure your $2000 purchase doesn't have any typos or mistakes? I…

just for the record, I completely agree that _research_ is way easier on a computer.

But i take issue with this concern:

> Do you really want to use a phone's on-screen keyboard to type in your family's passport details, address, then credit card numbers, then review all of this to ensure your $2000 purchase doesn't have any typos or mistakes?

My iphone (safari) auto-fills almost all of those details. It’s also likely that semi-frequent travelers have an account with the airline in question, so passport and TSA precheck info is pre-saved too.

It’s simply a non-issue in my experience.

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Post by curious_riddler »

koyote wrote: post #166
jdross wrote: post #115

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How often do you get a meaningfully better result than google.com/flights? Outside of booking with points, it's all basically the same thing and I can book on google on my phone in under a minute

I could go into detail how being able to have a dozen tabs open almost always gives a better result than simply picking the first flight on google flights. But let's assume there's no difference: Do you really want to use a phone's on-screen keyboard to type in your family's passport details, address, then credit card numbers, then review all of this to ensure your $2000 purchase doesn't have any typos or mistakes? I…

Apparently the anxiety of making big purchases on phones is only a thing for the millennials and not really a thing for the younger generation.

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Post by cookiengineer »

jdross wrote: post #115
moduspol wrote: post #114

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I have literally watched my in-laws plan and book a vacation from their smartphones. From their house, where they also have computers. They're quite different from my side of the family, but the biggest thing is that they've never been big planners. Everything is by the seat of their pants. If you're like that, you're probably OK with taking one of the first three SEO-optimized search results and making it work. Mean…

How often do you get a meaningfully better result than google.com/flights? Outside of booking with points, it's all basically the same thing and I can book on google on my phone in under a minute

Use an iPhone or Macbook Pro, pay more.

Use an Android or Linux laptop, pay less.

Not kidding, pricing is based on these bullshit assumptions more than you might think. For the German market, for example, it's also cheaper to buy tickets on Thursday evening around 22:00-23:30. Paid around 400$ less for a 2k trip, multiple times, reproducibly, not depending on seasons or years.

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Post by rrgok »

reaperducer wrote: post #202
j1elo wrote: post #105

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I really don't get how people do research work (like finding good flight tickets, or comparing hotels to stay in for a trip) without a computer. I really cannot stand seeing websites in a small screen without the ability to quickly open 4 browser windows with 4 tabs each for different combinations of dates, for example.

I really don't get how people do research work (like finding good flight tickets, or comparing hotels to stay in for a trip) without a computer. For a lot of people, time is more valuable than money. They get on their phone and complete a task and move on. Spending an hour comparing a dozen tabs on a computer to save $30 on a flight is less important than spending that time with their loved ones.

Yes exactly this. My time is more valuable than the research and headache.

I would understand if you saved $500 or more. If you are frequent flyer, that would add up.

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