My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go. What’s yours?
I hate how tech is in everything now. Everything is IOT. Everything can expire because of software abandonment.
You know how you have those 70 year old fridges that still work? I’m sure that new Samsung IOT one will have planned obsolescence after 20 years tops.
You know how we have classic cars? Thing of the past. Locked firmware and phone home capabilities will brick new cars for similar reasons when they become old.
I hate that every facet of human existence is being monetized.
I don’t use tiktok, instagram, and I deleted facebook, it’s all targeted advertising slop. My “friends” on facebook didn’t interact with me, they interacted with my posts. I made a post stating I was going to delete facebook on X date, and if anyone wanted my contact information they should reach out before then. 1 person reached out to keep in touch. I refuse to download apps on my phone. I already have an internet browser on the phone; one app to rule them all. Why do I need a fucking app for what I can do on your webpage? I switched to linux because both apple and windows are in a race to see who can be the shittiest walled garden that invades your privacy and steals your data, so yeah, I’m still very much, don’t trust strangers on the internet, including corporations. No I will not give you my information to get a discount or bullshit rewards points. I’ll pay full price, my data is worth way more than your paltry discounts.
Like a few people.commented in this post, I don’t use social media
Which one, lol.
I despise videos in place of text/pic how-to.
I’m starting to run out of fucks to give when it comes to dealing with tech. Doesn’t matter what it is. Overcomplicated car infotainment. Burying features in deep OS menus. Shitty website design that hides info. Phone trees. “AI assistants” in pretty much everything. Etc.
I think most modern popular music absolutely sucks. No art, no ability to sing, all formulaic, a lyrical desert, and autotuned to shit.
It’s gotta be a mental illness, this constant need for public commentary via uploading everything you do to be viewed by others. Particularly things like “this is me crying because I got yelled at” kind of stuff. Vapid. Shallow. Go touch some grass and don’t fucking record it.
Yeah. I’m missing the more disconnected life we used to have.
(No, I’m not going to say it was all better back in the day. It wasn’t. Just our problems weren’t compounded by things like social media)
I think you should treat others with respect
except like always treat them how you’d like to be treated, not just when it’s convenient for you. which seems to be the boomer way. example: boomers loooove bright ass LED headlights when they’re driving behind them, but complain when they’re blinded by the exact same car facing them.
so the solution is don’t use those fucking headlights, right? but all these motherfuckers out here are just buying that shit up and don’t see a problem with it. I nearly hit somebody last week because they were crossing 100 m before the intersection in a spot that pedestrians typically do not cross and I couldn’t see shit because of the oncoming car right behind them.
Downvoted by big LED but you speak the truth.
I think 99% of tattoos look like shit.
I hate cloud based services. I don’t want to be reliant on and send my data to someone else’s computer. Give me local control and local data storage or get off my grass!
I think electric cars are terrible
I dig electric propulsion.
I don’t want a dashboard full of computer screens, bullshit half-baked features that won’t ever work right, and controls that are weird for the sake of being weird. Give me a vehicle with the exact same UI as my 2005 Buick Century but with batteries and motors instead of gas tank and engine.
Menus at restaurants are to be printed not via a QR code and a shitty website.
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?
A date night is better when both leave their phones at home. Or at least away for the date.
This sucks.
Ok, while we are on this one
If you have an online menu, why does it have M.P. instead of having the actual price?!?!
I get you can’t reprint the physical menu every day, but if you can update the point of sale computer, you can let me know how much it costs before I order it.
Mp? Mama points or multiplayer?
There is a psychological thing where removing the currency symbol from prices will make people more likely to pay more as they dont associatie the number with price.
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.
a shitty website
Or worse a PDF of the menu.
The worst is the heavily compressed photo “scans” of the paper menu.
That is 500Mb+ because the ‘designer’ just stuffed the highest quality image in they could as a background on the whole thing
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.
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 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 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
That’s actually a viable tactic in my field. The first three jobs in my field of expertise I got by walking into the clinic/office and giving my resume to the manager/owner.
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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.
Doesn’t that just mean you schedule calls over text? That step is not very boomer of you
You’re a living personification of “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”
I avoid smart home type shit
Literally watched their “industry initiative” to make a standard that works with everybody’s phone and doesn’t brick devices, and only lightbulbs use it.
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.
Well that’s a new nightmare fuel for me. Glitchy mattresses.
I feel like I’m pretty tech-savvy… which is why I don’t want software in anything where plain old physics will do the job. Software breaks.
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.
