Live in the past, is mine. I will listen to things over and over because some songs or even podcast episodes, rewind me back to times where I felt comfortable in. I do sometimes poke my head out to see where things are currently in the present, but nothing around really makes me gravitate to anything current-day. But, then I just go back to my hole in living in the past.
People used to tell old people to get over it about them remembering things as they were all of the time. I’m understanding why they do that. Sometimes the present really truly sucks.
Didn’t think I’d be telling my kids the TV is rotting their brains. Yeah, Looney Tunes wasn’t educational in the least but at least the shorts had plotlines. Stuff my kids watch (mostly on YouTube) will transition between scenes within seconds and there’s no point or resolution to any of it!
this is why I limit YouTube to 1 hour per week.
Valuing the wisdom of age and experience.
I’m not 40 yet and reflect on a decision, almost every week, that I would have made wrong just a few years ago.I’m in my 30s and still feel pretty close to when I was 16-18 just more tempered.
Still a night person, still like games, still like technology. Idk I guess I’m not old enough yet lmao
Get random bruises on my hands. Thank you orange makeup!
not be a millionaire yet
Wear reading glasses glasses. I never had to wear anything until the last month. Noticed I was struggling to read an old textbook. Someone handed me their readers. Wow… I’ve been missing out
I got bifocals.
They’re already not strong enough :(
I’m not nostalgic like that, love to hear new music, and see new shows, read new books.
But boy do I like to know what bird that is in the yard. I feed the crows. I grow things. I wear clothes with elastic waist and flat shoes.
And teatime meal >late supper, I feel so much better if I eat earlier.
Biggest thing is probably the switchover from night owl to morning person. I mean, I’m using morning person loosely as I still hate getting up. It’s just that by 9:30 at night I’m drowsy and by 6:30 a.m. I’ve already been laying in bed for 45 minutes trying to fall back to sleep and now I’m so bored I get up just for the sake of getting up.
Also, weirdly vacuuming. It’s a daily thing these days. Used to hate it.
When seeing a kid/now-adult I haven’t seen in 20 years, “Omg, I remember when you were this big!” When I was a kid this always made me feel weird. Like, I don’t know you, stranger. Idk why I can’t seem to stop myself!
Thinking a lot of new technologies are stupid and unnecessary. Of course, at least in big tech, lot of them objectively are.
Yeah, this is me too. Although, to be fair to my younger self, back then a lot of new technologies actually were notable improvements over the previous tech, and older people were missing out by not trying them. I’m talking about going from cassette tapes to CDs, things like that.
Nowadays the new thing really is just worse than the old thing. E.g. going from a desktop environment to “the metaverse.” Those of us who didn’t embrace the metaverse were not just sticking to our old cassette tapes; the metaverse really was stupid as hell.
The meta verse has 500 users, total, worldwide. Out of 8 billion people. It’s not exactly a popular new tech.
AI on the other hand, fits the description much better. It is very useful, and people who reject it out of spite are missing out. Sure, it’s being shoved down our throats in literally every product, whether it makes sense or not, I get the sentiment. But rejecting it completely makes you miss it’s useful applications.
What about kids who edit videos on a phone. Laptops exist too you know, and the editing process would be a lot more enjoyable.
GenX and Millenials are the only two generations who are technically literate to know that. Your average GenZ or Alpha or whatever never learned to use a computer so it’s less scary to do it on a phone.
My favorite example: Copilot to read your emails for you and send responses automatically. Get two people with Copilot sending each other emails with neither person actually involved. Efficient!
Maybe this is why I constantly feel like no one is reading my emails at work anymore. I can put multiple points of information into an email and only get a response that acknowledges the first one.
That’s almost unequivocal proof that a human did it. AI will restate each point and provide an answer, no matter how correct or useful. A human will get distracted, or omit or ignore points that they think are obvious or too difficult.
People have been doing that long before LLMs, so i wouldn’t be too sure haha
That sounds to me like human behaviour, an AI would probably respond to each element separately. A lot of people when faced with multiple pieces of information or questions will usually respond to at most half, and often only one thing, in my experience.
Worked in a lot of service desks where I asked multiple troubleshooting related questions, getting a reply to only one of them is really common, the norm even I would say.
I think it’s more “Copilot can steal the contents of your emails to train its LLM.” (and maybe leak it when someone write a suitably crafted prompt.)
flat out rejecting modern anything. I have zero desire to buy new phones, computers, new clothes, appliances etc… it’s ALL junk designed to fail so I buy again.
I just don’t now. I buy nothing and I don’t care. subscriptions? get fuked. replacing anything that breaks? hell no… I’ll fix it instead.
I used to like companies, but I’ve learned they are all criminal scum, liars and thieves and deserve very special treatment. they pushed me over the edge and I will never return and never stop voicing my distrust and dislike for all of them. even in the stores themselves when I have to go buy food… I’m very vocal about how overly priced and absurd everything is to the point where people look at me… I want that, I want others to actively think about it especially when they are in the stores too.
I’m essentially done with ‘society’ whatever the hell that means
Lol I’ve found myself doing this as well… “$6 FOR GUMMI WORMS ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FREE COUNTRY.”
Preach!!! I tell everyone about enshitification and planned obsolescence. My examples are cereal and appliances… Take a look at the size of the cereal now and watch it for a few months… It won’t be the same when you look again but the price will be. Or appliances, you find the heating element goes out quickly on your dryer and replacement is really difficult. Maybe your phone slowed down even though you’ve done nothing different to it than surf the web.
But when I talk about these I feel so old.
Random noises when getting up from sitting.
Omg I started making old man noises young. I don’t know why I do it. Also all my joints pop when I stand
Random noises when sitting!
Listening to smooth jazz and fusion.
I was an insufferable prog & classic rock snob in my teens and early 20s, but these days I can appreciate just about anything, including smooth jazz.
The Rippingtons fucking rule.
I’ve started listening to the classical station 😊
Omg y, my recommendations look like every adult’s listening habit I made fun of as a kid
Sneeze really loudly.
Yeah, what’s up with that? Is there some physiological change that causes it?
Ran out of gaff.
Walks. Like just for sunshine and air. It used to be I was out on a bike from sun up till sun down. You’d see the old people just walking and enjoying life and think damn, I’ll never be that lame. Well here I am. No bike. Just my legs. They weren’t lame. I was a dumb teenager. Walks are awesome.
