| ▲ | anonymous908213 6 hours ago |
| Which one would the world miss more if disappeared overnight? |
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| ▲ | smileysteve 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The average millennial and younger don't use a non work computer, and haven't had one for 10 years. |
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| ▲ | ehnto 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not sure I would put the age cap at millennials, they very much had PCs and laptops at home, uni etc and lived before smartphones were a thing. | | |
| ▲ | vel0city 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Key word there is had, while the comment you're replying to is speaking as to today minus ten years roughly. And yeah, as a millennial I know lots of people who had a shared desktop at home, probably had a laptop in college, used a work laptop, and hasn't had a personal computing device outside an iPad and iPhone for a decade or more. Outside of those who play PC games or other niche hobbies it's getting more and more rare, at least for the people I know. |
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| ▲ | somenameforme 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is often said, but incorrect. 81% of households have a desktop/laptop. [1] And the breakdown is basically a proxy for wealth. Only 56% of households with earnings of less $25,000 have a desktop/laptop whereas it's 96% for $150k+. For millennials (approximately - age range 35-44) the rate is 87%. [1] - https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/computer... |
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| ▲ | cowlevel 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Depends which four data centers. AWS North Virginia would be missed more than all the world's laptops. |
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| ▲ | codebje 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not by me; I couldn’t tell AWS NV was even missing without my laptop. | | |
| ▲ | cowlevel 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | You'd open your phone and nothing would work, not even the connection to the cellular network since your phone company has management components running on AWS. | | |
| ▲ | lelanthran an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > You'd open your phone and nothing would work, not even the connection to the cellular network since your phone company has management components running on AWS. I'm pretty confident, sitting here on a different continent, that I wouldn't have that problem at all. | |
| ▲ | codebje 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You might have that problem, but us-east-1 going dark is unlikely to impact my Australian carrier enough to knock cellular service out. But granted, I might notice something is up if I tried to use my phone for much. If us-east-1 vanished at the right time of day I might notice on my phone first, sure. |
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| ▲ | matkoniecz 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | All laptops vs 4 (presumably most impactful) data centers? I would expect that "all laptops dematerialize" would be worse. |
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| ▲ | esseph 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Banks don't run on laptops, so probably that one |
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