My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go. What’s yours?
I genuinely think you should be able to get a job interview by walking into a business and introducing yourself with a firm handshake
writing a billion versions of my resume with matching cover letters and manually inputting all the information already on my resume into individual application forms and then getting rejected by AI screening scripts is making me wish i was dead
I refuse to use overly smart devices. Yes, I have a few zigbee light switches and thermostats that are controlled by a local HomeAssistant installation but why would I want to by my fridge, dishwasher and toothbrush to be connected to the internet?
I avoid smart home type shit
Okay we need to talk about this because in my opinion this hasnt become a boomer opinion that, as proven over and over again, is just a better and smarter decision. Most of things that are “smart” dont need to be. Why does a fridge, toaster, TV, matress or oven need to be connected to the internet??! For what?!
Most of things that are “smart” dont need to be. Why does a fridge, toaster, TV, matress or oven need to be connected to the internet??! For what?!
I’ve recently seen an add stating that, big brand washing machine have WiFi, we have quality and low pricesbut indeed, it’s getting crazy, and what happens when you change ISP?
I do not know what happens during an ISP change, but i do know that during the recent amazon server outage, these smart appliances stopped working. There was a case where someone with a smart matress (yeah apperently that exists), couldnt sleep because the matress was launched into a weird W shape position and heated itself up.
I’m grumpy as fuck
The kids’ new slang is fucking stupid. My son last night was excited about his skills in the game he was playing and told me he was " cracked " … cracked?
Man, like, I know we used " bad " to mean good, but come on. Cracked? Cracked is a crazy person. Cracked is how we pirated computer games. Cracked is your engine block after you poured cold water in an overheated car.
This is even stupider than " crashing out " meaning you threw a temper tantrum instead of falling asleep after an up all night acid trip.
I fucking hate it.
Bro you’re cooked.
So is crack
Actually I just remembered that, even some 20 years ago (possibly more) in France, we used to describe OP characters in videogames as “craqués”, which could mean “broken” or “cracked”, so I was not weirded out by this one, as the meaning is similar enough.
I wonder how “cracked” came to be and whether this is one of the only contemporary instance where some French slang may have influenced the English one somehow? Probably just a coincidence.
Menus at restaurants are to be printed not via a QR code and a shitty website.
a shitty website
Or worse a PDF of the menu.
That is 500Mb+ because the ‘designer’ just stuffed the highest quality image in they could as a background on the whole thing
To be fair, telling people to scan QR codes with their phones is a huge phishing vector. I’ve seen a few places with new stickers over the first one, which is very easy to do. Is it an updated menu? Or a scam page for a session stealer?
I’ve seen restaurant where you need to order on a smartphone. That’s just ridiculous
That’s just less tip for the server if I have to do their job for them.
I feel like this is probably common sense. The council of people over 20 have decided this months ago, and it should become law any minute now.
Related - I hate having that goddamned tablet at the table.
I’ll accept a tablet. But the first time it malfunctions, Miss Minimum Wage is standing at the table writing my order down on paper.
I know a bar that does this but you can place orders for the table (your friends too and you can see their orders), call the waiter and pay the bill. I was impressed it was functional.
I don’t like “smart” features, I hate being forced to create accounts for everything, I want my data to only be local, I loathe smileys, I’d much rather talk to you face to face, I don’t know wtf is an app and why yours is just a wrapper to your webpage, pure html pages with terrible colour choices are fucking class, I say “hacker” to mean “hacker” and not “cracker”, I still don’t understand the success of tablets, and you look like a dick with your mini doomscroll machine on your wrist.
EDIT: fixing rage induced typos
Agree with everything here, plus I miss cars coming in a wide variety of colors instead of just inoffensive earthy and silver tones.
I’ve never used Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok. I’m trying to get away from Facebook currently. I’ve successfully dumped Twitter, which I hardly used anyway. I only use YouTube because I can still block all ads, but if they ever force ads into my videos, I’ll drop it in an instant.
I’ve never cared for social media except as a way to stay in touch with friends and family, and maybe a way to meet new friends. But modern social media is just garbage content pumped into your feed constantly for clicks and reacts.
The only reason I haven’t let go of Facebook is because almost everyone I know is still there. If I dump it, I lose contact with 90% of my social group. I don’t really use Facebook anymore though, except to contact people.
EDIT: On a related note, I don’t believe children should have electronic devices. Maybe around 10 years old, they should be allowed to carry a locked down phone or something, so their parents can reach them, but they can’t browse the Internet or send photos to people, etc.
It was around 2010 or so when I first saw a friend hand their iPad to their 1-yr old to keep them distracted. That was a $600 device! Which was a lot of money for a personal electronic device back then.
As an IT professional who had to fix electronic devices all the time, I mentioned to my friend that a child probably shouldn’t have unsupervised access to an iPad, and they told me that’s why it has a thick padded case; a lesson they learned when their first iPad got cracked by the child. So the baby broke a $600 iPad and they bought another and handed it back to the kid?! Sheesh…
I think that’s less a boomer opinion and more of a tinfoil hat lemmy user opinion.
(And I don’t mean that as an insult - these days I wear my tinfoil hat proudly. These are dark times!)
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I don’t want to have to create an account for everything. Even when account creation was required in the past, it would be enough to have a username and password (sometimes email address). Now often times there are so many unnecessary mandatory fields.
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I like my devices and appliances to have one dedicated function and to do it well, without extra features, preferably available offline. Music is listened to on the mp3. The TV is only the display and never the content source.
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I still prefer in-person interactions, jobs, lessons, and shopping to online ones (but support having online options for those who prefer them).
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I prefer calling people to texting them.
But I also don’t like being called.
I guess those are my two wolves.
You’re a living personification of “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”
In person interaction is infinitely superior to anything done online. “Meeting” people online just doesn’t hit the same, even with video calls.
Online interactions register a tiny bit above screaming at the TV in socialisation scale.
Cooking only from scratch no factory products. Meat also only from the butcher and not supermarket. I know where the butcher gets his meat from. And wanting to learn how to do lots of things myself to be self reliant, less wastefull, enviorment friendly and its mostly cheaper. Dont need no smart toaster!
I’ve gone away from plastics and only use natural materials, perferable renewable. If something is damaged i can just repair it. Creating less waste, saving money, and the objects have a personal touch and story to it over time.
Leather instead of artificial leather And yes i am building my PC case out of wood and glass if i need a new one
I prefer buying stuff in stores rather than online. I need to see it physically before you scam me.
Edit: my back hurts
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…i expect institutions to protect me…i call my representative and senators and get platitudes…i keep calling…
