My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go. What’s yours?
My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go.
Every time you do this change your password immediately. This is shockingly easy to find in logs and match up to the users. You’d be surprised how often application logs are damn near wide open in a log repo to entire IT departments. Just trying to look out for you OP.
I hate how tech is in everything now. Everything is IOT. Everything can expire because of software abandonment.
You know how you have those 70 year old fridges that still work? I’m sure that new Samsung IOT one will have planned obsolescence after 20 years tops.
You know how we have classic cars? Thing of the past. Locked firmware and phone home capabilities will brick new cars for similar reasons when they become old.
I’m sure that new Samsung IOT one will have planned obsolescence after 20 years tops.
Heh, you’re off by an order of 10.
20 years sounds incredibly optimistic for any Samsung appliance.
I hate that every facet of human existence is being monetized.
I don’t use tiktok, instagram, and I deleted facebook, it’s all targeted advertising slop. My “friends” on facebook didn’t interact with me, they interacted with my posts. I made a post stating I was going to delete facebook on X date, and if anyone wanted my contact information they should reach out before then. 1 person reached out to keep in touch. I refuse to download apps on my phone. I already have an internet browser on the phone; one app to rule them all. Why do I need a fucking app for what I can do on your webpage? I switched to linux because both apple and windows are in a race to see who can be the shittiest walled garden that invades your privacy and steals your data, so yeah, I’m still very much, don’t trust strangers on the internet, including corporations. No I will not give you my information to get a discount or bullshit rewards points. I’ll pay full price, my data is worth way more than your paltry discounts.
I’m with you.
Two spaces go after a period
I’m more likely to use my computer than my phone unless it’s directly phone-related. And if I can send a text from my computer? Hell yeah
I’m more likely to use an emoticon than an emoji
Two spaces DO go after a period. Is that something old? Just seems proper formatting for readability.
For readability on a screen, I find one space adequate. In print, I typically prefer two spaces, unless it creates visually distracting channels that run down the page. Sort of how serif fonts look better in print, it’s a question of comfort.
I started using brackets instead of parentheses when chat programs auto-replaced them with emojis.
I hate cloud based services. I don’t want to be reliant on and send my data to someone else’s computer. Give me local control and local data storage or get off my grass!
Menus at restaurants are to be printed not via a QR code and a shitty website.
To be fair, telling people to scan QR codes with their phones is a huge phishing vector. I’ve seen a few places with new stickers over the first one, which is very easy to do. Is it an updated menu? Or a scam page for a session stealer?
Related - I hate having that goddamned tablet at the table.
I’ll accept a tablet. But the first time it malfunctions, Miss Minimum Wage is standing at the table writing my order down on paper.
I’ll accept a tablet, but not that condescending attitude towards restaurant workers.
You misunderstood my comment if that’s what you walked away with.
points to self, former wait staff
Ms. would have come across a little better. Boomer feminism appreciates the distinction.
a shitty website
Or worse a PDF of the menu.
That is 500Mb+ because the ‘designer’ just stuffed the highest quality image in they could as a background on the whole thing
an integrated PDF into the page, not even a stand-alone blob PDF
The worst is the heavily compressed photo “scans” of the paper menu.
A date night is better when both leave their phones at home. Or at least away for the date.
This sucks.
I’ve seen restaurant where you need to order on a smartphone. That’s just ridiculous
That’s just less tip for the server if I have to do their job for them.
I feel like this is probably common sense. The council of people over 20 have decided this months ago, and it should become law any minute now.
Ok, while we are on this one
If you have an online menu, why does it have M.P. instead of having the actual price?!?!
I get you can’t reprint the physical menu every day, but if you can update the point of sale computer, you can let me know how much it costs before I order it.
Mp? Mama points or multiplayer?
There is a psychological thing where removing the currency symbol from prices will make people more likely to pay more as they dont associatie the number with price.
I know a bar that does this but you can place orders for the table (your friends too and you can see their orders), call the waiter and pay the bill. I was impressed it was functional.
This is the most tech I want to see at the table:
- Call waiter - because if you snap your fingers I’m throwing something at you.
- I need the bill - because etiquette is different the world over
- Cancel request because buddy was being a dink and hit the button.
As a patron and as a former waiter, this is both the minimum and the maximum tech I want.
I think both videogames, and non-traditional sexual identities are not important
I think 99% of tattoos look like shit.
Not all people with tattoos are trashy, but all trashy people have tattoos.
We found the Facebook page of a local tattoo shop a few years back.
Jesus Christ, that person should not have been allowed near a biro, let alone a tattoo gun. Every single one looked like it had been done on himself, with his left hand, in prison.
Was his left hand already in prison for ugly drawing? SCNR
All of them. Lol. Things were definitely better 20 years ago than they were now. Kids these days, etc etc.
I also really want to separate from all of technology!!!
I genuinely think you should be able to get a job interview by walking into a business and introducing yourself with a firm handshake
writing a billion versions of my resume with matching cover letters and manually inputting all the information already on my resume into individual application forms and then getting rejected by AI screening scripts is making me wish i was dead
I’d call that boomer-adjacent. You think you should be able to, but boomers believe you actually can.
It genuinely depends on what industry you are in. Every single job I’ve had has either been calling the companies in the area and letting them know I’m moving and want to have employment lined up before I move, or by calling a company and letting them know a shift in management has occurred and I’m looking to transition to a different company. The most I’ve had to do was email a resume, and if there’s an interview it’s a lunch interview that’s super casual.
Basically any trades based industry still operates that way, because most trades are still local businesses. When you get into the national or international businesses they streamline the humanity out of it.
I would absolutely consider hiring somebody who walked in with a smile and a resume. Hell, I’ve hired somebody who did that. (He turned out to be a turd, but that’s beside the point.)
However, I do a job that it seems like most lemmings wouldn’t be looking for.
Whats the job?
Warehouse in a commercial/industrial industry.
Like a few people.commented in this post, I don’t use social media
Your nose ring makes you look like a bull.
Your comment makes you sound like a donkey.
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I don’t want to have to create an account for everything. Even when account creation was required in the past, it would be enough to have a username and password (sometimes email address). Now often times there are so many unnecessary mandatory fields.
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I like my devices and appliances to have one dedicated function and to do it well, without extra features, preferably available offline. Music is listened to on the mp3. The TV is only the display and never the content source.
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I still prefer in-person interactions, jobs, lessons, and shopping to online ones (but support having online options for those who prefer them).
I really don’t want to deal with two factor logins and email verification for an account that doesn’t have financial transactions.
On creating accounts everywhere, maybe it’s a GenX thing, but I just lie my arse off in all those extra fields. So many websites have my home address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500. I do wonder if it results in much extra junk mail for the processing faculty to deal with.
GenX here. I poison their data every chance I get.
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I think you should treat others with respect
except like always treat them how you’d like to be treated, not just when it’s convenient for you. which seems to be the boomer way. example: boomers loooove bright ass LED headlights when they’re driving behind them, but complain when they’re blinded by the exact same car facing them.
so the solution is don’t use those fucking headlights, right? but all these motherfuckers out here are just buying that shit up and don’t see a problem with it. I nearly hit somebody last week because they were crossing 100 m before the intersection in a spot that pedestrians typically do not cross and I couldn’t see shit because of the oncoming car right behind them.
Downvoted by big LED but you speak the truth.
