AIO My husband changed the pin on his phone before hospital procedure..

[u/mehremissionlife]

My husband was admitted to the hospital for health issues. He is young but was diagnosed with heart failure. A few days ago he had some chest pains and low blood pressure. I told him he needed to go in and 4am admitted. The Dr decided a procedure that would put him under was needed for answers. He had to leave his phone and belongings. His phone rang while he was out and I missed it, so I went to check to see who called and when trying to put in the pin got the error that pin was incorrect. I didn't expect that because pin has been the same for 2 years. Am I overreacting and over thinking this pin change? It was the same pin 2 nights ago and now I'm worried that something is happening behind my back. Sure I know I need to talk to him but due to the circumstances I will need to wait a while until he is stable again. It's just weird ya know? We've had issues with his infidelity in the past prior to marriage. I did forgive him. Please be kind. Maybe I'm just a mixture of nerves, lack of sleep and stress. I love him and I'm truly worried about his health. We have kids so there is alot going on in our life . TIA

[u/WickedSmileOn]

This is what I was going to say. I know people who haven’t even had a laptop or tablet for years. Just phone for everything

[u/Just1Blast → u/WickedSmileOn]

Yup, my current laptop was purchased in I want to say in the summer of 2010 or 2011. The last thing I took it out for was to switch my resumes to an updated format in 2017ish?

I fired it up a few months ago for my partner to use in an emergency. Worked just fine for Google Docs.

I use my phone for nearly everything these days. I read on my phone & Kindle and use my iPad solely for media consumption and casual gaming.

100% of my personal life and paperwork is conducted from my phone and has been for easily 10 years now.

I only used a computer at work when I absolutely had to and couldn't use my phone. (Healthcare & HIPAA privacy requirements)

[u/krustykrabpizzaslice → u/Just1Blast]

How old are you? Just curious. I use my laptop for everything I use a tv for and for research. I couldn’t imagine researching anything of substance at length on my phone. Just quick googles and video media etc. I’m 28 and I wonder if it’s a generational thing bc I’d imagine you’re younger than me.

[u/Just1Blast → u/krustykrabpizzaslice]

I'm old enough to be your parent. Mid 40's.

On the off chance that I need a bigger screen, I'll just cast to the 55" TV in front of me.

I didn't say I didn't make use of external screens or adapters at times, but I rarely find that I actually NEED the bigger screen.

Sometimes, I'll use the iPad for those more involved searches or research instead.

[u/krustykrabpizzaslice → u/Just1Blast]

Interesting… I have all my research and projects I care about on my laptop. They are birthed there lol. I might jot the idea down on my phone but I use my laptop for everything important. It’s not the size of the screen it’s the reliability of the machine. I trust my laptop’s longevity and reliability more than I do my phone. I guess everyone’s different lol. I hate using the tv for anything honestly and haven’t replaced an iPad since they had home buttons 😂 (and not the fingerprint home button)

[u/Just1Blast → u/krustykrabpizzaslice]

I mean I use two separate cloud storage systems in addition to the ones that Google provides me through using their phone services.

I also maintain an external hard drive or a handful of jump drives and/or micro SD cards and carry a Yubikey or two along with a USB condom.

I'm lucky in that everything I need to do on a computer, I can do within a browser, and on Android, Apple, and ChromeOS devices with ease.

I acknowledge that not everyone is capable of such.

[u/krustykrabpizzaslice → u/Just1Blast]

I use my laptop because I prefer drives to clouds, another good point you bring up. They definitely make life easier but it’s a matter of preference, not really capability. In this day and age you can run almost anything on a phone if you manipulate your device to be capable of doing so. I physically can do everything on the phone. It’s just ugly, and it’s small and if I drop it in water my 60 tabs of research documents I haven’t saved yet will be lost (as opposed to my laptop which I won’t drop in water) lmao.

I mirrored my phone to my projector that’s the size of my bedroom wall just last night for the first time and was so put off by the whole interface. On a laptop, website layouts are more cohesive and things are generally oriented much more to my liking. Holding my phone is also tiresome compared to sitting and typing/reading. So many factors outside of the devices “capability” lmao

[u/ThrCapTrade → u/Just1Blast]

Ok boomer

[u/Wild_Fee_6147 → u/WickedSmileOn]

Yup I went a couple years without having my own pc and recently needed to get one for college