50 Times Young People Adopted A “Boomer” Mentality And Were Proud Enough To Share It Online

☝️ 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.

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".

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.

Sometimes get blocks on websites saying to use an app while on desktop. Not only am I on a desktop, which I know that you can see clearly site, but even if I wanted an app, which I don't, I don't have a phone. Bye bye, off I go somewhere else, no money for you.

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.

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!

I noticed recently that those annoying calls you get by random numbers 8 times a day are now made with robotic voices.

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.

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.

Many companies switch you to a human if you use foul language directed at the bot. In India usually, but human.

Calling non-emergency police is a nightmare.

With some you can just stay silent, but some just hang up if you do.

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.

I'd just leave. QR codes can send you to loaded sites for Trojans and viruses. I never scan them.

I have recently been noticing "to the recipe" buttons on recipe sites :D

It's a shame that something that could have been amazing got ruined by malice, greed and bullying.

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.

I have no desire to know what my washer in Michigan is doing if I'm in Miami.

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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.

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.

So much of this! It's a d@mned nightmare.

Especially at family functions!!!!

And if you turn off the sound in an advert, for the very next one to turn it back on again. 🤬

The pharmacy after I pick up my prescription from the automatic dispenser. Every sodding month.

Or...a sign saying help wanted, walk in, apply. No Indeed, but local job boards, perusing the companies' openings themselves should be adequate.

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.

Forced subscriptions lead to software piracy.

Never mind the home, a family should be able to heat and eat *at the same time* with one income.

I once encountered a scroll that didn't go down to my birth year. Does that mean I'm legally dead?

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.

We all did!

I'm starting to carry a fountain pen to both make it harder to fake my signature, but also tweak the modernists. :)

Better than the garbled letters going at weird angles! BTW they've been training AI with those picture capchas over the years.

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

I could never say it as eloquently as OP so I'll just say YEAH!

Stop being helicopter parents and let kids play. Not be driven from one activity to another.

I'm sure teachers can spot AI writing even better than I can! Should be an automatic F

I miss the little stubs of paper, I used to collect them in scrapbooks.

The discount is to get you to sign up so that they can sell the data for much more.

Well done J R, made me smile. I don't lol.

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.

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.

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.

I miss getting up in the morning and settling down to read the (physical) newspaper. Just a much easier start to your day.

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.

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!

I did. Then I binged Wednesday. Now it's quarter to two and I'm here. 🥺 FFS Rick...

And $100k cars and trucks. 😂

Not if you rip it to your computer. Audacity is great software (open source) that will do that just fine.

Knobs wasn't censored! Neither is k**b? Huh? Am I allowed to say such terribly dirty words at two in the morning then? 😂

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. 😉

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.

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.

Particularly when you are forced to change them periodically. Who can remember all that c**p?

I can attest the info is hardly used to improve customer service.

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.

Sorry, I'm British. We are legally required to pass blatantly obvious comments on the weather when weather, of any sort, is happening.

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.

YES, YES, YES.