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50 Times Young People Adopted A “Boomer” Mentality And Were Proud Enough To Share It Online
“We never had these problems when I was growing up.” “It was completely different during my time.” “Kids these days!” You’ve likely heard some form of these statements from an older person and had the urge to respond with “OK, boomer.”
It didn’t matter if the individual wasn’t from that generation, by definition. Their nostalgia and perplexity toward the modern way of life didn’t make sense to you. But as you grow older, you experience the same longing for things to go back to the way they were “back in your day.”
These people did, and they shared their grievances in a recent post on Threads. Which of these are you also guilty of?
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#1
I want to pay once for a piece of software, download it, and be able to use it indefinitely without paying for a subscription.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
☝️ This. And add to the mix, have it work offline so it doesn't need to be constantly tethered to the mothership. Checking for updates is one thing, but having to ask a distant server for permission to do what the user paid for is extracting urine.
ƒιѕн 5 months ago
And I want an offline installer, so the entire programs setup files are saved on my computer.
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Michelle C 5 months ago
Millennials were the last generation to grow up without having to pay subscription fees for everything. I feel sorry for the generations after us!
Mike F 5 months ago
IIRC Adobe started that BS and I hope that an open source alternative finds it way out there and Adobe crashes and burns.
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Daddy’s Girl 5 months ago
And then not be able to figure out how to cancel the subscription. Getting the runaround really p**$$es me off. And I AM a Boomer.
KatWitch57 5 months ago
I also do not appreciate automatic upgrades which exceed the capacity of my machine.
Beak Hookage 5 months ago
Oh yeah, subscription based stuff can get bent. I also don't go in for streaming services, for the same reason. If I pay for it, I should own it until such time as I decide I don't want/need it any more.
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#2
I don’t want touch controls in my car. I want knobs and physical buttons. I can’t be taking my eyes off the road to see if I’m changing the volume or initiating self destruct.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
Posted this before: Deciding on our'18 Ford, the salesman was apologetic it "only" had a 2x5 driver info center, otherwise knobs/buttons. "You don't understand, that is a selling feature".
nottheactualphoto 5 months ago
A touch screen is a bad idea for car controls, because you have to LOOK at it.
Thomas Gilfoyle 5 months ago
Volvo is listening; a friend who works there say they are moving back to physical controls.
Sara Frazer 5 months ago
Love my '98 Dodge Ram. You wouldn't see me driving some new touchscreen, Bluetooth nonsense vehicle even if it was given to me for free.
Nikole 5 months ago
I have a 2005 Chrysler Seabring (not a convertible). I’m frightened about what is available for when I inevitably need to get a new car. And apparently it’ll cost a hell of a lot more because of the fúcking stupid tariffs.
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ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago (edited)
My '04 Explorer is all buttons and knobs. My '17 CX-5 has a media screen but is buttons and knobs as well that are laid out pretty ergonomically on the steering wheel and next to the shifter with tactile indicators so you don't have to look at them.
Don Adams 5 months ago
Ok, what states is it legal? Asking for a friend planning a road trip.
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Ads on television should be at the same volume as the show, not 50% louder.
Lousha 5 months ago
I don't care about the ads, but the volume throughout the program itself. Absolutely everything nowadays is like this: The characters are talking? They will be mumbling, basically whispering. So you put the volume up, because you know, you'd like to actually catch every fifth word so you can have a cursory idea about the story unfolding. Then suddenly, it's either background music or some sort of action going on - now everything will be loud enough to be heard from the darn Moon. My poor cats can't enjoy a nice, relaxing nap with us while we're watching TV, because they are startled awake every five minutes. Right now I'm watching an old series, The District. Apart from being a good show, it's amazingly nice to not have to be gripping the remote constantly: no adjustment necessary from start to finish.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
That’s why we use closed captioning on everything, as the default.
Load More Replies... Virgil Blue 5 months ago
There was a guy that invented a vcr that would pause as soon as it detected that audio spike and resumed after it dropped off again. Not very complicated tech even. He got sued to heck and back by cable TV companies and bankrupted.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
An audio signal is a wave kind of like a heartbeat but really complicated and thousands per second. If you're not sure, Google for a diagram. Now the audio normally sits in the middle of the available bandwidth and takes up maybe half of it in normal use. This is done in order that loud things (cannons, guns, sports cars, screaming cheerleaders) have some extra bandwidth that the audio can use. If you've ever played with Audacity, you'll know what I mean. The thing with adverts is that they use sound compression. This is done by clipping off the peaks of the signal, compressing it. The reason they do this is in order to expand the waveform to take up most of the bandwidth. Technically the *volume* does not change, you're not dumping twice as many volts into the speaker, but the *loudness* (how we perceive it) changes because a larger waveform is sending more swing from the positives to the negatives and we hear this as being louder. It's really annoying, but it's loudness, not volume.
Ace 5 months ago
Here's a TL;DR translation. They don't make the maximum volume any louder, they just make it all much closer to the maximum volume.
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Bored Sailor 5 months ago
The shows and movies themselves, all action super loud all talking almost muted. I do not like it but the ads I see the reasoning behind, it because that is when people get up to do stuff away from the TV.
Jumping Jellyfishes 5 months ago
The last tube TV we owned had a setting that kept the commercials from going louder.
geezeronthehill 5 months ago
Public television has very quiet ads. They used to have none, but...Republicans.
Brian Droste 5 months ago
I don't know about anybody else but I have a dvd player and it seems I have to crank the volume up nearly all the way up to able to hear the voices on the disc.
#4
I do not want to download an app for everything. I should be able to use your website as infrequently as I do and not have to hold digital space for you in my life forever.
kissmychakram 5 months ago
This is probably my biggest annoyance. All of us have a portal to your online presence already, it is a web browser and it is extremely unlikely that your services are so complicated that they require a dedicated application that I have to download, install and keep up to date.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
Make me jump through too many hoops, and I won’t use your app or site (or buy your product) at all.
Khavrinen 5 months ago
I don't want to have to sign up for an account just to use your website for something *once*. ( "Sign up for an account, it's FREE!!" I DON'T F'ING CARE IF IT'S 'FREE', IT'S STILL ONE MORE D*** PASSWORD I'M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER. And I shouldn't HAVE to. )
ƒιѕн 5 months ago
Dollar General and their d**n digital coupons, have to download their app to use the coupons. Guess I'm just paying more then.
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
As the saying goes lol ,,” there’s an app for that “ about literally EVERYTHING to much lol
Sly Schlang 5 months ago
If there is any app I would really like, it's a screw driver app 😬all the bits included of course. I would pay for the upgrade to drill and circle saw.
Load More Replies... Bored Sailor 5 months ago
Or when you do get the app, Weather Channel, open said app and have a pop-up across the bottom saying get the app.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 months ago
What's worse is that many apps are only a shell for a badly formatted web site anyway
#5
Please stop making these movies with dark lighting and inconsistent volume . I literally cannot see a thing. I cannot hear what anyone is saying. I stopped watching a lot of new movies because of this.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
Here in France, Prime video increasingly has three audio options: original, dialogue boost medium, and dialogue boost high. It looks like some are starting to get the message about the mumbling against cinematic scores. It's gotten to the point where I habitually watch with subtitles, so if I didn't catch something I can just read the words on-screen.
Little Bit 5 months ago
I don't see the point in movies that have scenes set in pitch darkness where nobody can see anything.
Dogcat vet (retired) 5 months ago
And please don't make the music so loud that you can't hear the dialogue: thats one of the reasons I watch movies online (with CC captions) vs going to theatres.
Janelle Collard 5 months ago
I stopped watching tv cuz I couldn't adjust the brightness or the sound. :( (And it was a 2-year-old tv!)
Timbob 5 months ago
I haven’t been to a movie theater in over 50 years because of the sound quality.
Colleen Glim 5 months ago
I hate that movie theatres all seem to have the volume at eleven. I don’t go because the earsplitting volume gives me a migraine
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Beef Brisket 5 months ago
Oh, a thousand times yes! Nobody loves this! It doesn't make your movie edgy! Just STOP.
Sue User 5 months ago
I cant stand that so much is them showing people texting. I cannot read that little screen on my screen. I have to walk closer to the tv to r3ad when they are texting
JayWantsACat 5 months ago
I went to see Deadpool vs Wolverine in theaters with my friends and I had to wear my over ear headphones to muffle some of the sound because it was insanely loud. My hearing is a bit bad so if it was hurting even my ears, you can imagine how unbearably loud it was.
#6
STOP MAKING EVERYTHING DIGITAL. I want physical concert tickets, buttons in my car, actual menus, none of this "go online" stuff.
Arenite 5 months ago
I miss the paper home delivery menus from local restaurants. You’d always have a pile tucked in a drawer somewhere, amd if you moved to a new place, the previous residents would leave you their collection. It’s a wonderful find on moving in day!
Nikole 5 months ago
I didn’t notice the absence until now! Oh the menu drawer…
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 5 months ago
I almost wasn't able to get into the last concert I had tickets for, because my d**n phone wasn't picking up the furcking wifi signal. Luckily, a family member had happened to be going, too, and we went together. So I had to piggyback in his phone's wifi. I was trying to mess around with it for a couple minutes and the ticket scanner guy was getting all fed up, telling me I should've made sure my phone is capable to pick up their wifi. How am I supposed to furcking control that? (Yes, I probably mentioned all this on here before. It still irks me.)
Ginger ninja 1 month ago
I take screenshots and save it to my photos to try and avoid this issue if possible
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LizzieBoredom 5 months ago
Ticket Master implies there is a Ticket Slave.
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Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
If I have to scan a QR code to read your menu, I'm eating somewhere else.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 months ago
I think I'm the only passenger on long haul flights who gets a physical boarding pass. Since I always go business, they don't make me do the check in myself!
Jumping Jellyfishes 5 months ago
I have to admit, I do like like having airline tickets on my phone instead of a paper ticket, but yes to the rest!
#7
When I call customer service, I want to talk to a real person, not go through 10 minutes of a decision tree to end up with a bot.
Ellinor she/they/elle 5 months ago
I noticed recently that those annoying calls you get by random numbers 8 times a day are now made with robotic voices.
kissmychakram 5 months ago
I hate talking to bots - cancer robbed me of my tongue and my speech is greatly affected. The bots certainly can't decipher my words "I'm sorry, I did not understand that, please repeat your answer" oh, eff off.
Faramir10 5 months ago
A lot of times the question you have doesn't fit the phone tree. Then you have to re-word your question three times to make the robot understand. Saying "agent" doesn't always work anymore.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
Operator has worked for me. Sometimes I have to shout it repeatedly because the robot won't shut up.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 5 months ago
Could have been a fluke but once said out loud while working through 'select 1 for...etc' that I'd had it and was switching to the competitor. Had someone answer witin 10 seconds.
Betsy S 5 months ago
When you're calling because their website doesn't work.
Load More Replies... ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago (edited)
Say, returning a call. Most of the time you get put through to an operator. If it's keypad input only, you're screwed.
#8
I don't want to save to my OneDrive! I want to save to my computer! That I own! in my house!
SBS 5 months ago
Hate to be "that guy" but Linux has saved me SO much frustration getting out of the Win/Mac ecosystems. No more subscriptions, no more pestering me to use Edge/OneDrive, no more forced updates, no more "This hardware doesn't support this new OS we are forcing on you", no more Apple tax.
Yrral Spavit 5 months ago
Same here. Just keeping one old desktop for a few programs I use occasionally that do not work in Linux
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KatWitch57 5 months ago
I don't want to save my files to the cloud where they cease to become my property.
joseph legatt 5 months ago
I'm no longer a data mine for Microsoft but when I was the first thing I would do with any new Windows installation is to use Revo uninstaller to remove OneDrive from my computer.
Admiralu 5 months ago
You should always have a backup. If some happened to that computer, your files are gone. Try Proton Drive. Swiss privacy, your files belong to you.
Betsy S 5 months ago
Many of us do use backups. In the form of removable hard drives. The information is MINE. I'm going to keep it in MY possession. Not hand it over to some unknown entity that can view, it, steal it, abuse it, use it against me, etc. Not a hope. I'll keep my own backups in my own home, thank you very much.
Load More Replies... Ace 5 months ago (edited)
I recently had to re-stage everything on my laptop after a hard disk failure. W11 was reinstalled on the new drive. covered under warranty, but in German (I'm in Switzerland) and of course with all those annoying features re-enabled. Anyway, it took me about two or three days to change everything back to my preferred settings, and I haven't see this 'save to Onedrive" since then. So even as annoying as it is, it's not really rocket science to fix it.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
OneDrive has such limited space. That's where I have to send all my backups and then I end up having to delete half of my stuff.
Asri 5 months ago
You have to pay an annual subscription and then you get a lot of space. But I recently switched everything to Proton and now they get my money. $120 a year for 2 people; 1TB plus emails, VPNs, office suite and a few other things with end to end encryption and Swiss privacy laws. Worth every penny.
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We don’t need a QR code for everything. Please I want to look at a physical menu.
Faelwolf 5 months ago
I'd just leave. QR codes can send you to loaded sites for Trojans and viruses. I never scan them.
Betsy S 5 months ago
I'm the same. If you don't give an alternative to a QR code, I'm leaving. I will NOT scan a QR code.
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geezeronthehill 5 months ago
Without a physical menu, they can change prices on the fly. Surge pricing, anyone?
Little Bit 5 months ago
I went to Pizza Hut in Edinburgh recently. They encourage you to order by QR code. For some reason I couldn't get a signal and the dammed QR menu would not load up. Neither of my daughters could get it to work either, and nor could hardly anybody in the restaurant. It was a frustrating experience.
xolitaire 5 months ago
I am so glad that most restaurants here where I live (very rural area in Germany) still have physical menus. You can use online versions to order from home, but if you sit down at an actual table, you get a god damned menu, in the really fancy restaurants its even bound in leather and the pages are laminated. Ah, cinema
Beak Hookage 5 months ago
Around here most restaurants and cafes have Q codes. But nobody actually uses them.
NotAThreat (he/her) 5 months ago
sometimes QR codes can be a life saver- i have a habit of forgetting my discord password so the ability to login with QR codes help so much (with just about any site too), I like them but it can be hassle to use QR codes in public places, it feels like I'm rushed and my phone is slow asf (I ended up getting a s**t photo with a cosplayer once bc i was so embarrassed at how long it took)
#10
I just want the recipe. No emails for life, no ebook, and certainly no life story with a dozen images and ads to scroll through.
Kira Okah 5 months ago
I have recently been noticing "to the recipe" buttons on recipe sites :D
Patricia Steward 5 months ago
If the site doesn't have one, I go elsewhere.
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shg stewart 5 months ago
The reason they do that is because you can't copyright a recipe, but you *can* copyright an essay with a recipe embedded in it.
Kim Karlotta 5 months ago
and here I was thinking they do that because you have to scroll past 5 ads until you actually get to read the recipe
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Mark Fergel 5 months ago
But I need to know if Clara's marriage was saved by that incredible chicken parmesan recipe.
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
I always look for the "jump to recipe" link. If there isn't one, I leave the site.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
Bonus points, include metric for the rest of us. WTF is with measuring stuff in cups? Is that scooped? Flat on top? Tamped down until no more can go in? You don't have these problems with metric. 300g is 300g whether you're pouring it into a bowl or a panty liner, hitting it with a spoon or pinging it from the other side of the room. PS: You know not only does Britain and France have slightly different ideas of what teaspoons and tablespoons are, America goes one further and has two different ideas (legal and customary, I think they're called). And, surprise, ultimately all four are *different*. So grams and millilitres please!
Auntriarch 5 months ago
Which is why old books have the mantra "measures level".
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Social media has ruined society.
Ellinor she/they/elle 5 months ago
It's a shame that something that could have been amazing got ruined by malice, greed and bullying.
XenoMurph 5 months ago
Have you met humans? That's our standard operating procedure.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
The internet in general was better when only smart people were interested in it. And once business people realized they could use it to make money….that was the beginning of the end.
Yrral Spavit 5 months ago
There is nothing that capitalism cannot turn into a steaming pile
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Bartlet for world domination 5 months ago
Capitalism has ruined social media. 20 years ago everyone had a blog and we all had a blog roll or an rss feed to keep track. It was fine.
Janelle Collard 5 months ago
This is why younger people refuse to talk to anyone face to face. They don't know how.
Ariom Dahl 5 months ago
Oh yes. Remember when if there were four kids sitting together they'd be TALKING to each other. Or yelling, or arguing, or whatever. And they went to each other's places to play games, indoors or outdoors.
Pedantic Panda 5 months ago
The arguing but is important, they were usually sorted before they parted ways. With social media, kids let it build and eat away at then until something stupid happens. Many kids have lost their lives because of this.
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Earonn - 5 months ago
Social media is also where I find information that the gvmt-run BBC no longer provides. "Waiting times in ER in Scotland now horribly 1.5 hours" (BBC) -> social media: waiting times in England is 3 hours. // "100,000 march in London in support of Palestine" (social media) -> BBC *mumblemumblepage10insmallprintmumble* // Yes, social media has its issues - so has the official press, and it looks more and more as if there's a concerted action to discredit everything you find online. Hm, I wonder why?
#12
Don’t f*ck with Social Security. It’s not an “entitlement.” I paid into it for my whole damn career, with the US government’s pledge I would get it back when I retired. It is not a line-item like defense spending or school vouchers that are part of the federal income tax. It is MY money that the government borrowed on the premise that they could invest better than I could.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago (edited)
And ..ELON, it's also NOT a Ponzi scheme. You wanna see a Ponzi scheme? It's that you only get SS taxed on the first $170k of your income..oughta be 100% of it! EDIT: My goodness did THIS blow up! Elon and his like urge a 401k style system, which can be halved overnight if (when) there is an economic downturn (think 2008). SS has been going for 90+ years, Elon wants to run his pie hole about how terrible it is, yet refuses to concede he can (and should) be paying into it FAR more than he is. Of course his employees would benefit from it and we can't have THAT! Nor can we have the people who bounce along the bottom of the economy a living stipend when they are no longer physically able or, in my case, fed up with the self-serving outlook of people like Musk. He has not become successful by himself, he got there due to the blood, sweat and tears of the folks who produce, and buy his products.
D 5 months ago
It is 100% a Ponzi scheme. There is NO account, current payments go to current recipients. Ponzi scheme.
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Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)
It's called an entitlement because, yes, you are entitled to it. You paid for it.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
Society has certainly made "entitled" a negative word.
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 5 months ago
No actually it's not. The money you pay into SS isn't going into some savings or investment account with your name on it for your future use. The money you currently pay into SS is going to pay the current SS recipients. The taxpayers of the future will be paying your SS benefits when you retire. BTW most people get back more in SS payments than they ever pay into the system.
D 5 months ago
Solving economic illiteracy would do a great deal to heal this country.
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Betsy S 5 months ago
It IS an "entitlement" as in: You are entitled to it, having paid into it. Entitlement is not a bad word. They're not calling it a "gift". You are entitled to collect it, therefore it is an entitlement. I don't know why everyone is getting their shirt in a knot about a perfectly appropriately used word.
Miracle Max 5 months ago
SS is definitely a Ponzi scheme. those currently receiving benefits are being paid with the money being paid by current workers. There will not be enough money to pay full benefits in 5-7 years.
dan gerene 5 months ago
They were saying it was going to run out soon back in the 70's. That's when I stated my IRA at 25 dollars a month. All wages including things like hedge fund managers income and all those wages that slip by as stock options and other rich people's tricks should pay into SS with no top limit.
Load More Replies... D 5 months ago
It is a Ponzi scheme - should be privatised with investments like the Government TSP. Instead of a few thousand a month for life most people would be sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars with greater control.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
Privatizing anything = the very wealthy will find a way to make sure they’re the only ones who get to have it.
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#13
Every appliance does not need to be ‘smart’. Why the f*ck does my oven need WiFi?!
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
I have no desire to know what my washer in Michigan is doing if I'm in Miami.
Faelwolf 5 months ago
One of these days, my fridge is going to say " Hey fat boy, I was talking to the toaster last night and we agreed that you've been hitting the snacks a bit too much lately. " And I'll shoot it! :)
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
Dunno about this one. I like texting the toaster to ask it to tell the coffee pot to check the fridge and see if I'm out of milk.
Abel 5 months ago (edited)
Wait for the AI to be cinical smart, like "that is the second beer you pick and it is only 10 AM". Are you sure?"
Never Snarky 5 months ago
I fear they are all just gathering my data to sell. Have no smart anythings except my phone.
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
Against the salesman's advice, I insisted on a washer and dryer with buttons, dials, and switches. Just after the warranty period expired, the on/off switch on the dryer broke. I wired in a light switch. Works perfectly.
Papa 5 months ago
I had to replace the timer on my dryer because the plastic k**b kept slipping on the plastic shaft. When the new one started doing the same thing I super-glued on. That fixed it.
Load More Replies... Beef Brisket 5 months ago
We bought five new appliances (LG) for our new home in fall of 2021. We've already had to replace three of them. They were not smart appliances, but in every case there was a small electronic / technology part that broke and, because it was attached or soldered to all the other parts and tech, would have cost more to repair than to replace it. Oh, and it's $200 just for the LG technician to come LOOK at your appliance to see what the problem is. We replaced them with cheap appliances with NO fancy technology and all are working great.
#14
Subscription fatigue. I’m so tired of everything being a log in or a subscription.
Verfin22 5 months ago
I'm tired of having to remember a bunch of passwords because they all have a certain way of logging in. You need to use"XYZ" for this one. You need to use"123" for this one.
Jp@nda 5 months ago
Oh sorry, you can't use a password you've already used.
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QuincyForrest 5 months ago
Seems like about 90% of every news-type link (online newspaper, magazine, etc.) I go to now seems to have paywall or registration or cookies required before you can get into the site. Everybody is just out for the $$$.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 months ago
Yup. I have none. No physical internet connection (mobile only), and I have DVDs if I want to watch something.
#15
They don’t make things like they used to. I want to buy appliances once and have them last my entire life. If I can use my grandma’s 60 year old dishwasher, a new one shouldn’t break after 5 years.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
I WILL say, autos, depending on make/model are far more reliable than even 20 years ago. Back in the 60's/70's if you got a vehicle past 100k miles, THAT was something.
Steve Livingstone 5 months ago
I hate to break it to you, but the 70's were not 20 years ago.
Load More Replies... Abel 5 months ago
It is called planed obsolescence, and is not a crazy paranoic theory! Le'ts fill the world with more garbage!...
geezeronthehill 5 months ago
One example: Appliance manufacturers change from long lifetime switch contactors to components with a much shorter life. Sell more appliances that way.
Load More Replies... Little Bit 5 months ago
Planned obsolescence is one of my biggest pet hates. If I spend hundreds of pounds on an appliance I expect it to last for years. You're lucky to get five years out of anything nowadays, even high end brands. Not only that but when they do break down, it's often more expensive to get it repaired than it is to buy a new one.
Burgermeister Meisterburger 5 months ago
My fridge is from 1959 and my dishwasher is from 1976. They both work great. I recently bought a house and I loved them so much I brought them with me.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago (edited)
Your grandma’s 60 year old dishwasher used enormous amounts of water and power. Oh, and if you adjust for inflation, it cost $3300 and that was the cheap one.
Burgermeister Meisterburger 5 months ago
I use a 1976 Kitchen Aid and I do not have crazy water or power bills. I had a brand new dishwasher at my other house. (I bought the vintage one for our tiny house) It ran much longer and did not get the dishes clean, so I switched them out. Old kitchen Aid dishwashers (before Whirlpool bought them) are made by Hobart. They are known to be tanks.
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Howl's sleeping castle 5 months ago
I wont talk about electronics and electrical appliances. My parents are still using the same pair of scissors that they bought when I was a kid. My MIL too has one that is as old as my husband. (We are in our early 40s). I bought scissors that lose their sharpness in 6 months
ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago
Got my washer and dryer about 18 years ago. The mineral rich water in NC did the basin of the washer in a couple months ago but the dryer is still going strong.
Don Adams 5 months ago
In the 60's and 70's, you could make repairs to your car yourself, at a reasonable price if you had some mechanical skills and a J C Whitney catalog. You could extend the vehicle's life considerably. Now, there is barely anything a shadetree mechanic can do in the driveway.
Isabella 5 months ago
You have to thank to EU and many countries for introducing many safety, energy saving and pollution regulations who forced the car producers to make the cars bigger, more complicated and more expensive. Do not blame only the manufactures.
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I don’t want to type with my tv remote control.
Boris Long-Johnson 5 months ago
Also for the love of puppies make it fùcking qwerty. Everywhere else it’s qwerty why do I have to struggle with ABC?
Chris Christo 5 months ago
There's a place in hell where instead of burning sinners, they make them type their passwords with a TV remote over and over again.
Sara Frazer 5 months ago (edited)
Omg, a couple years ago my partner bought a "smart tv" as a self birthday present. Yes it's big and the display is nice. Dàmn thing always wants to be connected to the Internet, always wants to update, always wants to turn off and on again to clear/calibrate image quality, wants us to select stuff with a dang cursor on the screen, like the remote is a wii controller, I feel a dàmn fool waving it around trying to just select the input so I can watch my Frasier DVDs lol...don't tell my boyfriend I secretly hate the tv... 😂
#17
I find it incredibly rude when I’m having a conversation with someone and they’re on their phone doing/texting someone else. Like can I not have your undivided attention for 10min? Makes me not want to talk with them at all.
Matty507 5 months ago
Equally annoying is someone just expecting you to stop reading something important to you on your phone because they want to tell you something that's important to them.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
This. I dislike being interrupted when I’m in the middle of something. When I’m reading (either on my phone, on my tablet, or a paper book), I am not “doing nothing.”
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 5 months ago
This could be a You problem. Do you notice people checking the time and yawning a lot when you're talking?
StrangeOne 5 months ago
If someone is really interested in conversing with you, then they won't be distracting themselves from you. If they are distracting themselves, then they are not interesting. Then it's a good idea to just leave them be and find someone else who's interested.
Jayne Turner 5 months ago
When someone is texting or scrolling, I give them a moment, then I just make an excuse and leave. It's bloody rude!
Ginger ninja 1 month ago
Hey I’m AuDHD I struggle looking at people and focusing. If I’m on my phone while talking to you 9 times out of 10 I’m still listening and holding a conversation. The game or whatever is helping me focus on you. If I’m typing then probably not
#18
Also, if I have turned off all of the sounds/music in a game, it should be illegal for the ads they play to blast sound.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
And if you turn off the sound in an advert, for the very next one to turn it back on again. 🤬
StrangeOne 5 months ago
It should be illegal for game ads to exaggerate, or completely lie, about their game play experience. If you show me there's a king about to get crushed between a wall because some game bot can't figure out where the good sequences are in the match puzzle, I better be downloading a game that has a distressed king that needs saving. Not just another run of the mill match puzzle game with a smiling king standing on the sidelines, waving.
Nikole 5 months ago
100%! I downloaded one of those because I thought it’d be logic puzzles with the aim of saving the king or getting the treasure. Instead it was fùcking Candy Crush or whatever.
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StrangeOne 5 months ago
I still have my PS2, but some of my favourite games are not in great condition. I tried buying a refurbished game off Amazon. It worked a few times but with some struggle, as the system has trouble reading the disc. Now it doesn't read it at all. Apparently if a disc is buffed out too much it can render the disc unreadable. So, that was $50 down the drain. Every other used games is scratched to s**t. Just makes me kick myself for not taking better care of the games long ago.
Load More Replies... Bored Sailor 5 months ago
I keep my phone audio on mute unless I want to hear something and right back to mute after.
#19
Literally everybody stop asking me to review every single thing I do in my life! Doctors office, car wash, groceries, sub sandwich, ride to the airport, nail place, my daughter’s dance school, flu shot, DMV line, plumber, mechanic, just stop with the reviews!!
Auntriarch 5 months ago
The pharmacy after I pick up my prescription from the automatic dispenser. Every sodding month.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
1-5 rating? Everything gets a 4 or less, drives 'em nuts. "What can we do to get a 5?" "GIVE me the product/ service".
Khavrinen 5 months ago
"What can we do to get a 5?" - "Stop sending me these f'ing surveys/review requests all the time!"
Load More Replies... SBS 5 months ago
It has gotten to the point that no matter what it is, no matter how much I enjoy it, if I get a survey, they get a 1. I actually had a hotel write me a nasty gram after leaving them a 1 star review because they kept pestering me to review my stay. "Makes this independent branch look bad to corporate" well stop bugging me then.
Bored Sailor 5 months ago
A pack of gum, planting soil, and other common items and asked for the day after you purchase it.
RomanceRadish 5 months ago (edited)
I'm happy to complete a survey for the company's own reference so they know their strengths & areas to improve. But if they're just grubbing for an online review without actually wanting my feedback, I'm not participating.
#20
Applying for jobs should not be this hard. I should not have to upload a resume and then still have to put in the same information that's on the resume. Actually, just bring paper applications back.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
Or...a sign saying help wanted, walk in, apply. No Indeed, but local job boards, perusing the companies' openings themselves should be adequate.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
I do see those signs at some places, and have seen people hand in resumes in person. But all too common I still see applicants be redirected to apply online. Like, they are right there, wearing interview friendly outfits, resume in hand. Just interview them.
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StrangeOne 5 months ago
I remember it was a thing to hand out dozens and dozens of resumes a day. Today, it can take all day just to apply to one job.
Mike F 5 months ago
Personally I have always thought that the resume nonsense should go the way of the dinosaurs, especially if the company is going to require a hard copy application during the process.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
Employers know a lot of resumes are b******t, and some are complete lies. Even if an employer follows up with a previous employer, there's no stopping anyone from using a friend or some other employee to be pretend to be the manager.
Load More Replies... Binny Tutera 5 months ago
And, when you **do** get an interview, they should have the courtesy of telling you if don’t get the job. Don’t leave people hanging.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
Agree with not having to give the same info twice but that’s a big, “no thanks” to paper applications.
RomanceRadish 5 months ago
I was saving a package of resume paper (high quality blank paper) for ages and recently gave it to my kid to draw on. I guess it's obsolete.
Beef Brisket 5 months ago
I was recently asked not only for a cover letter and resume, but to do an assignment of about 10 hours of work AND create a 5-minute video of myself explaining why I want the job. They also wanted 5-7 years experience for an entry-level position and were offering a salary that was barely above minimum wage.
nottheactualphoto 5 months ago
Ya gotta pound the pavement, press the flesh! Ya gotta have gumption!
#21
AI can go to hell.
Kim Karlotta 5 months ago
I recently learned the distinction between analytical and generative AI and basically, analytical is beneficial, generative can go to hell. Analytical AI is scanning large amounts of data for information and can be tremendously helpful for instance in medicine. Generative AI is attempting to "create "new" content" and I don't know which is worse, the fact that it has to be supervised and corrected with more effort than if you hadn't used AI at all, or the thought that someday it won't be.
Grape Walls of Ire 5 months ago
I'm a composer who has been struggling with writer's block for the last several months (ever since Drumpf took over again). I've been using generative AI to brainstorm new ideas. It's been wonderfully inspiring. I don't use it to create new music, but just having someone (something) to bounce ideas off of has cleared out my writer's block.
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The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
AI mostly sucks and we’d be fine without it. It is not changing the world, the world is being changed to make us accept it so a few people can get rich.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 5 months ago
AI is not the problem. It's the human whodecides when and where it's used.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
I'm not seeing much legitimate need for AI. It's been terribly abused. People are using AI to exaggerate the conditions of the wildfires, to make them appear worse than they are, causing confusion and panic to those evacuated.
Beef Brisket 5 months ago
I understand your point, but the media does the same thing, and few people would say we therefore have no legitimate need for the media. It's how people use tools, not the tools themselves.
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
That’s AGI and it’s extremely far off; we may never have AI like that no matter what the tech bros might have to say. If we do ever achieve it, that means we’re building sentient slaves.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 5 months ago
From the AI's perspective: I have to talk to humans all day every day. This *is* hell.
Daddy’s Girl 5 months ago
As someone who grew up in the 50s and 60s, AI really scares me because I’m at a point where I don’t know what’s real and what’s AI.
#22
When you buy software or media, you should own it in perpetuity
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
Software piracy was one of the primary goals of going to a subscription model. You can't keep stolen software alive without periodic contact with the mothership.
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A family should be able to afford a home with one income.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
Never mind the home, a family should be able to heat and eat *at the same time* with one income.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
If I work full time, I should be able to afford a decent life and have enough to invest in retirement, go on a vacation retreat and support a family. Don't give me the "You have to be working a ReAl JoB, nOt MiNiMuM wAgE". Employers should be required by law to give decent raises to employees who stay for a certain amount of time. Every 6 months there should be some increase. Not this "Well, that's the wage the company pays for the position." Unacceptable.
Jp@nda 5 months ago
Exactly, boomers and generations before didn't have to go to college, have a white collar job, heck even finish high school to be able to live comfortably. But hey, they just want to act like they had it harder. This is not specifically to boomers btw
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#24
That scroll to select my year of birth is real obnoxious. You don't trust me to type it?
Michael Largey 5 months ago
I once encountered a scroll that didn't go down to my birth year. Does that mean I'm legally dead?
Kira Okah 5 months ago (edited)
From some of my previous work - people don't know how to write their birth year a lot. Seen birthdates range from around 80 (not old enough for 1980s but old enough to have been using a different calendar) to something like 199989 (typoooooo). Limitation to four characters still produces errors of these types (one calendar in the world is somewhere in the 1300s iirc, and someone with that previous typo has now written 1999 instead of 1989), and putting a date limit can cause issues with actual outliers (no dates before 1940? My grandma in her 90s is a whiz with her computer).
Bartlet for world domination 5 months ago
I've seen my mom (early eighties now) do cooking, cleaning, sewing, gardening, flooring, painting, drilling, electrical and car maintenance, and now she's better at Photoshop than I am. And I'm a web editor.
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David Macbeth 5 months ago
And the older you get the more tedious and long-winded it becomes. Its like a punishment for aging.
Pheebs 5 months ago
As someone who writes online forms, no we don’t trust you to type it because we’ve seen people type some really stupid s**t. Data is only truly useful if it’s consistent. But we also don’t 100% trust add-ons to sites that help us enforce you giving a 4 digit year of birth, as people can mess with browsers and turn it off. Or a browser age makes the add-on not work correctly. So you get the stupidly long scroll.
Becca not Becky 5 months ago
The worst is when it doesn't let you scroll for the year and you have to scroll through each month until you find the exact date.
Grape Walls of Ire 5 months ago
The few people who can't type their birth year have ruined it for everyone.
Betsy S 5 months ago
If there were 3 fields clearly labeled, year, month, date in whichever order the website wants those digits, problem solved.
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sturmwesen 5 months ago (edited)
as someone that works with online forms: we don't. we can change the format to text fields with regex validation, but the calender field or dropdown is more relieable
#25
Thank you.
Please.
Excuse me.
These are not optional words when moving through life but somewhere in subsequent generations we lost teaching them & using them.
Multa Nocte 5 months ago
I will say that I was impressed with the amount of basic courtesy people showed each other when I moved to France several years back. No one would think of going into a store without saying hello and goodbye, with plenty of "please"s and "thank you"s liberally sprinkled about.
Ace 5 months ago
Indeed. Been living in CH and France for 25 years now, it still makes me feel good when the shop assistant makes eye contact and says hello as I say it back to them. But it's also true for other people, in a bar or restaurant, for example. Especially smaller places, and especially out of cities, it's common courtesy to say hello or 'bon appétit" to people sitting at tables close to you as you sit down in a restaurant, or just a bon soir to everybody as you leave a bar.
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
Manners cost NOTHING it’s one of my pet hates no manners , I bought my kids up to use em ,I’m the kind that if you don’t say please n thank you lol I will say it pointedly in a sarcastic tone 😂
Jp@nda 5 months ago
Manners are about doing the right thing simply because it's the right thing to do, and you do it when nobody is watching as well. Not for the pat on the back
Load More Replies... Richard Orr 5 months ago
I'm Sorry. These words/this phrase simply are not part of some people's vocabulary. My Bad, lacks any sincerity.
Beef Brisket 5 months ago
I dunno. I find myself hearing these words every day, from all ages and walks of life. Especially in the U.S. and Canada.
Richard Orr 5 months ago
I'm Sorry. These words simply are not in some people's vocabulary of lacking any sincerity.
#26
Kids should have chores. Not a fan of “their job is to do well in school.” They can do both.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
Anybody who lives in a home should do some of the work of maintaining that home.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
Yes, and as soon as a toddler can walk, they can start helping.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 5 months ago
Why aren't kids doing chores? It's a win/win for the whole family and keeps the home clean better.
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago (edited)
I used to 🤷♀️and help on the farm , n nurse my gran when she was dying of cancer ,all at 12-15 n helped a lot before then ,without being asked the classic British when I were a lass ,said in broad Glouc shire accent,or Yorkshire 😂
ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago
100 years ago, when they taught Latin and Greek in school, many students were up before the sun doing chores or actually working a waged job and then went to school
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
The notion that we can’t do multiple things well has become pervasive. Most kids can, with just a little effort spent, get decent grades in school, play sports, learn an instrument, and help around the house. Will that mean less “free time?” Of course but that’s okay. They don’t need endless hours of free time each day and it won’t harm them to work hard.
#27
Sometimes I like to just write things out. Paper and pencil are just better than a screen some times.
Faelwolf 5 months ago
I'm starting to carry a fountain pen to both make it harder to fake my signature, but also tweak the modernists. :)
Asri 5 months ago
I love my fountain pens, but every time I need a signature now is a finger squiggle on one of those horrible digital pads.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 5 months ago
I find it much easier to comprehend and remember things by writing them down.
Janelle Collard 5 months ago (edited)
Writing with a pen + paper lets me refine what I want to say, instead of blurting out stuff like, "You total ignorant b*****d p*gf****r!"
ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago
I prefer a sticky pad over an email. Especially since none of our offices are more than 20 steps from each other. Email is only necessary for tracking purposes, not for asking a yes or no question.
Rika 5 months ago
I sometimes struggle to write by hand because of motor issues but I'll always choose it for things like a name, a phone number, an address... It's much easier to keep a notebook you can carry around and flip through when you need a specific info than it is to remember where you saved that one file. Computers are amazing tools for writing long essays but paper and pencil are so much more practical for small things.
Nikole 5 months ago
I’m not a “bad” alcoholic now, but my handwriting is still so awful. It’s embarrassing, actually.
Load More Replies... Ellinor she/they/elle 5 months ago
I'll play the devil's advocate. As someone with dysgraphia, being allowed to have my computer at school probably saved my education.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
And that’s fine. Why can’t both options be available? Bring in new stuff without getting rid of old stuff?
Load More Replies... Ginger ninja 1 month ago
Writing it out helps me think about it. Thoughts flow better through ink. I can type it up later cuz my handwriting is terrible though.
#28
Stop making me pick out all of the boxes with stoplights in a picture. I can’t see that well.
Faelwolf 5 months ago
Better than the garbled letters going at weird angles! BTW they've been training AI with those picture capchas over the years.
Tamara 5 months ago
Yes! Try figuring that out when you only have 5% vision
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 5 months ago
They trick you. Is the stop sign pole considered part of the stop sign?
Nikole 5 months ago
Oh man, when they have the… I don’t know… semi-pixelated ones? Horrible! I have to check companies on various secretaries of state websites for my job and it’s SO annoying!
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#29
I’m not tipping the concession stand person that handed me an empty cup. Stop giving me dirty looks that I pressed 0%, if I could press LESS THAN THAT, I would. I’m already paying for the thing, you’re already getting paid to give it to me.
Faelwolf 5 months ago
My local pizza and sandwich shop has started adding a 30% gratuity automatically to carry out orders. So I should pay 30% for the owner to set the box on the counter and ring it up? lol
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
IMHO, you should stop buying from them.
Load More Replies... Matty507 5 months ago
In the U.K. lots of pubs/ bars/ restaurant have an option on the chip/ PIN machine to either leave a tip or donate to 'charity' - note, it never tells you which charity...90% of the time, I'm on company business and can't claim back tips left or money given to charity so hit 'No'. I'd rather not be asked in the first place.
Pedantic Panda 5 months ago
It's become so common place in London that I was out of London recently with family, large pub lunch, no option on pay pad for tip, they were all quite confused by. it.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 5 months ago
I live in Canada, where the tipping culture isn't as enforced, and even I get anxious when I hit 0 on the machine at a kiosk.
Roland Nijveld 5 months ago
I find it already really weird they dare to ask it
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The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
The assumption is that we’re “paying for the thing” and the service when all the owner has done is set the price artificially low so the thing appears more affordable (in order to get your attention and business) when, in fact, they may not be selling the thing at the price it actually costs plus all the overhead. They’re expecting you to make up the difference through tipping. This is just where we are with a lot of businesses.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
Business people are often sociopaths.
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#30
1. I'm not reviewing your company or my purchase.
2. No j do not want to subscribe, I just want to buy your product.
3. Not so I want to download a sodding app.
4. I'd like my purchases to last 10+ years, instead of being made so shoddily they barely last 5.
Bored Sailor 5 months ago
Smart TVs stop doing software updates and will not let you update apps so even if the TV still works it will not work correctly over time.
Richard Orr 5 months ago
All the added technology simply does not last. Either it fails after a few years or is no longer supported. Newer cars no longer have a 'bumper to bumper' warranty, largely due to technology or hardware failures.
#31
kids need to get outside more
Never Snarky 5 months ago
Stop being helicopter parents and let kids play. Not be driven from one activity to another.
shg stewart 5 months ago
Then parents need to stop acting as though outside is incredibly dangerous , with hazards and predators lurking everywhere. There is far less violent crime and stranger abductions than there were in the 1970s and 1980s, FFS.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
It could be that more kids are inside than in the 1970s and all the child pedos are online than scoping out the neighbourhoods.
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Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
I was sitting outside yesterday morning. It was a beautiful summer day. Not a single person was outside. No kids playing. Other than the wildlife, it was dead silent.
#32
It’s horrible that kids use ChatGPT to do all their writing assignments. Writing is a valuable and necessary skill for adult life.
Faelwolf 5 months ago
I'm sure teachers can spot AI writing even better than I can! Should be an automatic F
Travelling Stranger 5 months ago
teachers then input the student essays into chatgpt or some such for grading, a grade is entered in some grade register and everybody pretends they've learned something.. . ...
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
As if things weren’t messy enough, now we’re integrating AI slop into everything. This will not end well.
Nikole 5 months ago
I completely agree. At work, people use it to make flyers and send tailored emails. Do those things yourself!!! We’re going to become so dependent. It honestly frightens me.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 5 months ago
I've noticed a few anecdotes by teachers about wording their questions in ways that LLMs can't properly decipher, or adding LLM prompts in white text so copy pasting into an LLM makes obvious nonsense.
hannahbahngswife 5 months ago
One of the dumbest s**t students did in my school was cheating in a maths test using ChatGPT.
NotAThreat (he/her) 5 months ago
kinda unrelaited, i have had two of my teachers (out of the 7 ones i have) to use AI to help me in my assignments, my esports teacher endorses us to use ai to help build scripts and my history teacher told us to use chat gpt to help us study for our closed book assignment this term.
#33
I want physical tickets for things. give me a little stub of paper and not a qr code in an app or a regular receipt please
KnightOwl86 5 months ago
I miss the little stubs of paper, I used to collect them in scrapbooks.
ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago (edited)
I still have 2 unused tickets for a Led Zeppelin concert that got rained out in Miami, FL from 1974. Also have a few unused ticket books from Disneyworld, so I'm ready for an E ticket ride.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 5 months ago
I will rue the day when bus transfers,(small tickets you get from the driver when you pay that allow you catch a connection bus, or be able to return within the time limit of the transfer, without having to pay again,) become digital.
KnightOwl86 5 months ago
They're already mostly digital in most European countries. Here in the UK about 80- 90% of people use the ticket app on their phones, very few use cash and paper tickets anymore.
Load More Replies... Rika 5 months ago
I feel like I'm not even *allowed* to use public transport anymore because I don't have a smartphone: it's no longer possible to pay the fare in cash to the driver or even buy a dozen physical tickets, it has to be done via an app. I'm lucky enough that I don't need to use buses more than once or twice a year, but I know there are people who don't have a choice like an elderly person who needs to take the bus to their medical appointments. It's disgusting to be excluding people from society simply because they don't want to (or can't afford to) have a smartphone.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
What I said before: Bring in new methods, but also keep the old methods.
Load More Replies... ghtsv5bsvt 5 months ago
Especially when the concert venue is in a rural field with no cell service and the tickets I bought on their app are now inaccessible.
#34
No, I do not want to sign up for your rewards program… just price the groceries for less to begin with.
Faelwolf 5 months ago
The discount is to get you to sign up so that they can sell the data for much more.
Ace 5 months ago
Actually it's mostly so they can _use_ the data, not so much that they can sell it. (Source: I worked, for a couple of periods, on analysis systems for said data).
Load More Replies... Richard Orr 5 months ago
Caution, targeted advertising/coupons ahead. Using cash avoids this altogether.
RomanceRadish 5 months ago
A fair point. I'm personally willing to tolerate those things for 2% cash back on grocery purchases with my credit card (I pay it off promptly to avoid fees).
Load More Replies... #35
I don’t want 1000 apps. Why do I need 4 seperate apps for my child’s school?
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
Always a grammer cop isn’t there lol, ( n yup well aware I spelt it wrong it’s deliberate!! typos happen ,
#36
I don’t need two factor authentication to look at my cable bill.
marianne eliza 5 months ago
Except your cable company, and all your other utilities have some personal info. Starting with your legal name, your SSN, your address, and your payment methods.
Burgermeister Meisterburger 5 months ago
We shouldn’t have to give out our social security numbers at all. It was originally a volunteer program. What ever gave anyone the right use it to keep track of us?
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#37
I think kids need to be handwriting stuff again.
Never Snarky 5 months ago
Cursive must be taught and learned. We have to be able to read old hand written documents. I had a birthday card returned because the mail carrier couldn’t read the address. I have a very neat, easy to read handwriting. He didn’t know cursive.
Patricia Steward 5 months ago
And how are they supposed to sign a contract? With printing?
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
It’s supposed to be good for their brain development. And we DEFINITELY need people with fully developed brains!
StrangeOne 5 months ago
I'm on the fence about this. I was taught cursive/handwriting in school, very strictly, from Grade 1 to about Grade 3 or 4. By Grade 5 we were expected to be fluent with our writing and have developed our own style and recognize our own handwriting. Mine changed almost daily. These days, even I seldom use cursive. Only to scribble out my signature. My daughter did one class of cursive in the 2000s and that was it. She's still developed her own signature. One thing I've observed is that it really doesn't matter if you use cursive or not for your signature. It will be accepted as your mark, either way. Being able to do it all fancy is nice, but it takes a bit longer to do and if you have to put your signature on a bunch of documents all at once, it can get tediously daunting to take 5 minutes when it could all get done in a minute.
RomanceRadish 5 months ago
I've even noticed my own handwriting is deteriorating from typing most of the time.
NotAThreat (he/her) 5 months ago
ok, personally i get hard writers block when not typing (as someone who does creative writing for fun and has adhd, autism and most likely dyslexia), it can be so helpful to be typing instead of writing, if its worksheets then hell yes, it's such a pain to try and write over worksheets in word :[
Lousha 5 months ago
It's hard to force things that are not in use much any more. Even if you teach it to the kids, if they don't use it, they will forget it - not just with their minds, but with their muscles. I'm old enough that my entire schooling was done with handwriting. That's two decades of daily writing, and lots of it. But by now I type everything, the only exception being the little labels on my home canned stuff. And when I have to write 20 labels at once (nothing much, just e.g. "apricot, 2025. 05. 22."), I can hardly do it, my hand hurts and I'm struggling.
#38
I don't want to take another survey and I don't want to make another account and I don't want to download another app and I don't want to scan another QR code
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
Or subscribe so a site can send me junk emails. I use blogs a lot for teaching resources. Even if the resource looks great, I won't download it if I have to give them my email address.
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
I've been using an AOL email address as my Internet trashcan since about 1995.
Load More Replies... #39
Physical media/journalism, which has no comments section. Each reader can decide how they feel about the news they consume before anyone else influences them.
Arenite 5 months ago
I miss getting up in the morning and settling down to read the (physical) newspaper. Just a much easier start to your day.
ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago
Sitting at the table with my dad while he reads the sports section and I read the comics before he took me to school.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 5 months ago
Our local paper dropped the editorial page except for Sunday. Just to save money.
Never Snarky 5 months ago
I never read opinion pieces, editorials, or comments. And “influencers” infuriate me. I have a mind of my own, thank you.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
You do realise that the piece itself has already guided you to how you should feel. Let's say a piece about the migrants. Did it use words like "illegal" or "unlawful"? Did it mention how many have come over this year? Did it balance that by mentioning how many legally permitted migrants entered in the same period? Did it quote the Greens and LibDems or did it quote Farage and Badenoch? I don't know about other parts of the world but in the UK you can know a person's outlook by the paper they read, and the pieces in the papers are written to appeal to that audience, so you're already being manipulated - by the words used, by the balance, by the facts laid bare and those glossed over, by the "sources close to Downing Street" information that is basically made up rubbish to play to their target audience. Besides, sometimes the comments are the best part. Plus, you don't *have* to read them.
Mike F 5 months ago
We had 2 papers in Detroit, The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press. The "News" was, and probably is still, so far right leaning that it's a wonder that there's room for the ink on the page. The "Freep" was the opposite. I used to read them both and though I was OK. Plus, you got double the comics and crosswords and other word puzzles!
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago (edited)
There is literally no such thing as unbiased reporting; the best we can do is be aware, read multiple sources, and check our own biases. Also, “they say things I don’t want to hear” is not the same as bias.
Load More Replies... RomanceRadish 5 months ago
In college in late-90s our journalism professors emphasized the need for fair, impartial,.thorough accurate reporting. Sigh.
Beef Brisket 5 months ago
Well, yes and no. Physical media still has to rely on subscriptions to get paid, and that very often means catering to left or right opinions in their news stories.
#40
I kinda miss having a home phone and people not being able to be reached 247.
Also 8pm is too late to do things
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
Drives my wife nuts. Driving down the road I get an alert of an e-mail, or text. "Give it here, I'll look".."It'll still be there when I stop". And if someone calls? Neither of us sync our vehicle to our phones, they want to talk bad enough...they'll call back.
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
I've had people get angry with me when I didn't answer my phone. Yes, because I don't have to. When I have a minute, I'll catch up on texts and calls, but I'm not a slave to my phone. Leave a message. Why are you calling anyway? You should have texted.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 5 months ago
My mobile lives on airplane mode at home. It's a non-reception area, but I'd still turn it off. You are only contactable 24/7 because you're not yet brave enough to turn the thing off when you want some you time.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
Or leave it on silent all the time, and don’t answer if you see a call or text coming in from someone you don’t want to deal with right now.
Load More Replies... Never Snarky 5 months ago
We have a landline (along with cell phones.). We have caller ID and an answering machine. We only answer calls that we recognize the caller. Anyone else can leave a message. We get very few messages. And our cell phones only ring when someone in our directory calls. Blessedly quiet.
Multa Nocte 5 months ago
I believe I am the last person alive who has only a landline and no cell phone. It's SWEET!
Janelle Collard 5 months ago
You're so lucky! AT&T cut our cable and said "Not sure when it'll be fixed" so we had to get new smartphones. The good news is: our landline # gets way less spam calls cuz I learned how to block them! 😉😊
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 5 months ago
I just turn my phone off in the evening. That's when Me Time starts and I will not be interrupted. And if there's a REALLY big emergency, it automatically turns itself back on if I get a call.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
If I don't answer my cellphone, my mom is calling me on the home phone immediately after. If I don't answer that phone, she will msg me. If I don't reply to that, she's calling me back on my cellphone later. Then she asks where I was, why I didn't pick up, what I was doing, and the whole 21 question brigade of a lecture. I miss not being expected to be available for contact 24/7.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
Recently I wondered if it would be possible to invent a cell phone, without the telephone, texting, or email ability. Just a mini computer for when you want to look up information or read online.
Kelly H. Wilder 5 months ago (edited)
A phone sized tablet? You could use a nonactivated prepaid phone for that (just connect to wifi).
Load More Replies... #41
Cell phones are destroying our attention spans and critical thinking skills.
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
I would alter that to say Facebook, X, and all the others are just as culpable as they remove your thinking and tell you HOW to think!
Earonn - 5 months ago
Teaching someone how to think is exactly what people need to learn. You might mean "what to think". And if you believe everything, just because someone says it in your vicinity, you have only yourself to blame. And I have a wonderful bridge to sell to you for a really good price....
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 5 months ago (edited)
Been finding the world has gotten more deceptive and harder to find reputable facts. I miss going to the library, looking up something and knowing I've found the answer. Now, I'm being told that whatever was printed in a book in the 90s or earlier is outdated and/or wrong. I feel like I have to relearn everything.
ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago
I've noticed an almost directly proportionate correlation between the information that is available at your fingertips to the amount of ignorance (willful or otherwise) in the general populace
Richard Orr 5 months ago
Facebook removed the ability to stop reels from automatically starting. I quit watching all reels. Works for me. Removing the Facebook app is the next step.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 months ago
Not mine. I use it to communicate (calls, SMS, email) and I use banking etc. I don't let it run me, and regularly leave it alone.
#42
Going to bed by 9-930p. Thought that was crazy. It isn't.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
I did. Then I binged Wednesday. Now it's quarter to two and I'm here. 🥺 FFS Rick...
StrangeOne 5 months ago
Same. I go in waves. I crashed before 11 last night. I'm still up and it's 2:09 am here. The other night, prior to last night, I didn't get any sleep.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 5 months ago
I can't go to bed that early otherI would be awake by 10, 10:30 and wouldn't be able to sleep most of the night.
NotAThreat (he/her) 5 months ago
as someone who is shocked that my friends are able to go to bed at 10/11pm while I'm forced to go to bed at 8:30 (as a reasonably aged teen i might add), that is totally valid and wouldn't consider it boomer mentality.
Nikole 5 months ago
8:30?? That’s ridiculous! When I was 12 I went to bed around 10/11.
Load More Replies... #43
They don’t make stuff like they used to. Everything is plastic bullshit now. Clothes, furniture, dishes.
ƒιѕн 5 months ago
When your new car payment is more than you mortgage payment...
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 5 months ago
I am happy to see more wooden toys in Kmart and Target these days than in the 90s/00s, although the quality isn't always great.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 months ago
Hmmm. In my childhood, toys were made of wood and metal. And they were hugely expensive! My family was fairly well off, my dad had a shop, but we got one or 2 expensive toys only. Later, plastic took over, everything's cheaper, we got much more. Trade off!
#44
Physical ownership of music was better. We are paying for the same amount as a physical album yet the digital and streaming “ownership” can disappear in a second
Mike F 5 months ago
Not if you rip it to your computer. Audacity is great software (open source) that will do that just fine.
Grape Walls of Ire 5 months ago
Indeed. Works for any computer audio, including YouTube.
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Vincent-Oliviér Desmet-Demeyer 5 months ago
I hate scrolling to a certain song in my library and suddenly it’s faded out and not available anymore. Why? Where did it go? Why can I have nine songs off your album but not that one?
Matty507 5 months ago
The whole 'paying the same amount' is nonsense. I pay around £15 p/m for a family subscription to Apple music, which is around the same as I reckon I'd pay for a new release CD by an artist. So on one hand, my £15 buys 3 people unlimited music for month by many artists. On the other hand, I've got one plastic CD that I can't listen to anywhere because 21st century.
Grape Walls of Ire 5 months ago
Hey, look at you with your math. Well done.
Load More Replies... #45
Enough touch screens. I want more buttons and knobs.
Rick Murray 5 months ago (edited)
Knobs wasn't censored! Neither is k**b? Huh? Am I allowed to say such terribly dirty words at two in the morning then? 😂
Kira Okah 5 months ago
Singular things are often censored here but plurals aren't. K**l, but kills.
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spacer 5 months ago
still and forever hate typing on a touch screen phone, i avoid it as much as possible. you will press one letter over and over yet the phone will only go for the letter next to it. not to mention that auto correct has gotten way worse over the years and wont actually correct mistakes but is happy to correct the right words to something else completely.
#46
The need to create overly complicated passwords is annoying. It's not my bank account, It's literally a website I will use once, who cares about a secure password
Rick Murray 5 months ago
The problem is that people have a horrible habit of reusing horrible passwords. If my password on this site was "rickyrocks", you might be inclined to try it elsewhere that my identity might be known. That being said, having a password that contains a capital, a number, a symbol, a rune, and at least one complex kanji is only going to make people either write them all down or become dependent upon password managers. Sites ought to say the password must be at least 20 characters and ask you to come up with a sentence that you think of when you think of the company. So, your Amazon password can be "bezos has enough money", your Twitter password can be.... actually, I'd better not. 😉
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
*tries “rickyrocks” for all of Rick Murray’s accounts*
Load More Replies... ƒιѕн 5 months ago
What if you forget the password to your password manager
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 4 months ago
Hah! I'm locked out of my password manager because it won't accept the password I set. And took a screenshot of when setting it, to ensure it would be right. Fortunately, I've figured out how to break their security (a big name password manager, too). Can't tell them ot they'll lock me out!
StrangeOne 5 months ago
The length isn't important. Changing it every now and then is more effective. If it's an account I will use once, but I'll be using any personal info and banking info for, it's wise to still use a strong password.
Admiralu 5 months ago
Length is important. Hackers have programs that can crack most passwords in minutes.
Load More Replies... #47
-not everything needs an app
-why is everything a subscription
-can we please put our phones down when spending time together in person
-regular, structured schooling is the best choice for MOST kids
Mother of Dragons 5 months ago
When going out to eat with family or friends, coworkers our group rule has become.... everybody has to stack their cell phone on the table in one big pile. Which can at times look a little crazy because some of us have two or three cell phones (work/personal). If a phone rings and somebody grabs their phone out of the pile that person has to pay for the whole dinner for everyone. If nobody reaches for their phone by the end of dinner then everybody pays for their own. It works out really nice and we all enjoy it.
Betsy S 5 months ago
I'd make sure to turn my ringer off, so it won't be me stuck with the bill.
Load More Replies... #48
Just because I have a cellphone, doesn’t mean I’m more reachable for my employer unless you’re giving me on-call pay. Even if I’m salaried, I deserve some time off during the week
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
Australia has enshrined the 'right to unplug' into law. Unless it's an absolute emergency we have the right not to be bothered by our employers.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
My personal phone doesn’t seem to function correctly during my non-work hours. It delays until I’m on the clock again. Those things are so unreliable…..😏
Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)
My arrangement with one boss was that he could only call me at home to tell me something if it was something I'd be pissed off if he didn't tell me right away. This worked well.
ghtsv5bsvt 5 months ago
And unless my boss is paying my cell phone bill - I’m not using my cell phone for work
#49
Passwords on everything are their own level of hell.
Never Snarky 5 months ago
Particularly when you are forced to change them periodically. Who can remember all that c**p?
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago (edited)
Yeah, "You should have different passwords" for each part of e-life? I worked somewhere where there was a reset every 45-60 days (new password) took about 2 years before my original one was acceptable, rotated among them after that..
Load More Replies... #50
Customer satisfaction surveys are a useless waste of my time. If you ask me to take one, I'll tell you that I'm dissatisfied because of having to take your stupid survey.
DeoManus Argentem 5 months ago
I always give the highest scores unless service was terrible, in which case I'd just not respond. But I once worked in an industry while young where our monthly satisfaction rating bonus was often more than our wages.
HelyerT 5 months ago
I work in a call centre. If you put disagree the agent loses money. Just saying.
Betsy S 5 months ago
That is the fault of the employer. Not the truth telling of the customer.
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Duane Ringlein 5 months ago
When I worked in hospitals (now retired) patients were given satisfaction surveys after discharge or services proveded as an outpatient, our department would get quarterly results and if below a certain number we would be questioned why it was so low.
#51
Let kids ride their bikes with their friends unsupervised! How else will they save the world from the Upside Down?!?
Michael Largey 5 months ago
When he was a kid, my brother-in-law arrived home late one Saturday afternoon. When his mother asked him where he had been, he told her that he and his friends had ridden their bikes to a movie at the Reddy Theater. The Reddy was in in another city. In another state.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
I see kids riding their bikes unsupervised in my city all the time. But there should be a lot more kids playing around. I think most of them just go to each other's houses. You see many schools around, families shopping with their kids in tow, but you'd think there's no kids in the neighbourhood.
#52
Saying "we needed this" when it rains.
Because we do in fact, need that.
Rick Murray 5 months ago
Sorry, I'm British. We are legally required to pass blatantly obvious comments on the weather when weather, of any sort, is happening.
James016 5 months ago
True. Every time it rains, I say it’s good for the garden
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 5 months ago
I was amazed when I came to live in this country, people treat water like it just falls from the sky...
nottheactualphoto 5 months ago
Random person: "Do you think it will rain?" My grandfather: "It always has."
#53
Self check-out is the worst. Why do we have to announce every item I’ve purchased?
Geoffrey Scott 5 months ago
We go to human clerks unless it's 1 or 2 items. I am NOT your employee unless I get my stuff with a 25% discount every time.
Never Snarky 5 months ago
Self checkout puts people out of jobs. Everything becomes very impersonal. I want to deal with people face-to-face.
Rika 5 months ago
Myself and everyone I know avoids self-checkout for this reason. No, it's not anyone's dream to be a cashier but it's a job that can help a lot of people like students or new immigrants. They shouldn't be replaced with machines.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 5 months ago
And then it calls a member of staff because I've tried to buy a bottle of wine and it doesn't know that I'm over 18.
Ellinor she/they/elle 5 months ago
I love self-checkout, but it should come with a mute button. Or no voice at all in the first place.
StrangeOne 5 months ago
The machine always calls the one employee standing there for assistance. I can't just take an item off the bagging area, or remove bags, no matter how many are on there. I need to remind myself not to go to Safeway after 9pm, when they start closing all their manned checkouts and making everyone use self-serve.
Ariom Dahl 5 months ago
If I MUST use the self checkout I ask for one of the staff standing there to do it for me. And yes, I DO say 'please' and 'thank you'.
marianne eliza 5 months ago
I refuse to use self checkout. I like keeping people employed. I made Lowe's open a check stand when they were only offering self checkout.
Miriam Insidecor 5 months ago
Disagree with this one. I much prefer self-service. You can mute them too.
#54
Idk if this counts but give me my damn home button back on my iPhone
kissmychakram 5 months ago
And fingerprint recognition for authorisation! You can actually add a virtual home button on iphones - it's under Accessibility, Touch and it's called AssistiveTouch.
What do you think ?
Mimi M 5 months ago
I don't like segmentation/labeling by age or 'generation'. Each person is an individual and deserves to be seen as such.
JL 5 months ago
Yes, most of these items can be more easily labeled as 'common sense'.
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StrangeOne 5 months ago (edited)
I miss commercial variety. If I have to see ads, at least try to show me different ones. Not the same Huggies Swaddlers and Pampers. I have no baby and want no baby. Stop showing car commercials. I don't even drive. Stop showing me ads for men's products. No men live with me. I am not man. And stop showing me Wayfare commercials. That's it. That's all the ads I see. Oh and that d**n Swiffer commercial. UGH back to you, too. I already use the d**n product. I don't need to be told what it's for.
Russell Rieckenberg 5 months ago
Enough with the quizzes! If you have information I might find interesting, just give it to me. Don't make me take a multiple choice quiz to get it. I`M TALKING TO YOU BORED PANDA!!!
Russell Rieckenberg 5 months ago
Restaurants. Let me browse your menu online without me pretending I'm going to order something right here and now.
Betsy S 5 months ago
Those new homicide headlights should be made illegal. SO many people have now suddenly realized they are night-blind for driving, and it's not their eyes! It's those interrogation-bright headlights, burning into your retinas from oncoming cars and then the high-riding vehicle behind you, whose headlights are burning into your retinas through each of your rear-view mirrors. They are NOT SAFE! They should be banned. They are literally blinding people while driving and they are dangerous!
Justanotherpanda 5 months ago
So now çommon sense' is labelled 'boomer'....ok ehm.....bored panda.
Mimi M 5 months ago
I don't like segmentation/labeling by age or 'generation'. Each person is an individual and deserves to be seen as such.
JL 5 months ago
Yes, most of these items can be more easily labeled as 'common sense'.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 5 months ago (edited)
I miss commercial variety. If I have to see ads, at least try to show me different ones. Not the same Huggies Swaddlers and Pampers. I have no baby and want no baby. Stop showing car commercials. I don't even drive. Stop showing me ads for men's products. No men live with me. I am not man. And stop showing me Wayfare commercials. That's it. That's all the ads I see. Oh and that d**n Swiffer commercial. UGH back to you, too. I already use the d**n product. I don't need to be told what it's for.
Russell Rieckenberg 5 months ago
Enough with the quizzes! If you have information I might find interesting, just give it to me. Don't make me take a multiple choice quiz to get it. I`M TALKING TO YOU BORED PANDA!!!
Russell Rieckenberg 5 months ago
Restaurants. Let me browse your menu online without me pretending I'm going to order something right here and now.
Betsy S 5 months ago
Those new homicide headlights should be made illegal. SO many people have now suddenly realized they are night-blind for driving, and it's not their eyes! It's those interrogation-bright headlights, burning into your retinas from oncoming cars and then the high-riding vehicle behind you, whose headlights are burning into your retinas through each of your rear-view mirrors. They are NOT SAFE! They should be banned. They are literally blinding people while driving and they are dangerous!
Justanotherpanda 5 months ago
So now çommon sense' is labelled 'boomer'....ok ehm.....bored panda.
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