My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go. What’s yours?
My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go.
Every time you do this change your password immediately. This is shockingly easy to find in logs and match up to the users. You’d be surprised how often application logs are damn near wide open in a log repo to entire IT departments. Just trying to look out for you OP.
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’m sure that new Samsung IOT one will have planned obsolescence after 20 years tops.
Heh, you’re off by an order of 10.
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.
I’m with you.
All of them. Lol. Things were definitely better 20 years ago than they were now. Kids these days, etc etc.
I also really want to separate from all of technology!!!
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?
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’ll accept a tablet, but not that condescending attitude towards restaurant workers.
A date night is better when both leave their phones at home. Or at least away for the date.
This sucks.
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
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.
Your nose ring makes you look like a bull.
Your comment makes you sound like a donkey.
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’d call that boomer-adjacent. You think you should be able to, but boomers believe you actually can.
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)
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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).
I really don’t want to deal with two factor logins and email verification for an account that doesn’t have financial transactions.
On creating accounts everywhere, maybe it’s a GenX thing, but I just lie my arse off in all those extra fields. So many websites have my home address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500. I do wonder if it results in much extra junk mail for the processing faculty to deal with.
GenX here. I poison their data every chance I get.
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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.
True but also I don’t need to be everyone’s best friend.
I work from home, I ain’t interested in being “hit” the same so just let me keep doing my own thing.
Online interactions register a tiny bit above screaming at the TV in socialisation scale.
I guess boomers and Gen z are more alike…
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!
Irthink electric cars are terrible
The unpopular opinions are always in the comments.
Are you sure you don’t hate modern cars?
They are all connected requiring $2000 to change brakes these days, monthly subscriptions, and in general quite shite.
I prefer buying stuff in stores rather than online. I need to see it physically before you scam me.
Edit: my back hurts
