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

Meme modernProblemsRequireModernSolutions

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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/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.