Stop recording everything in your life.

Dear god there doesn't have to be an app for everything.

Make a website and if you really want an app-like experience, make a damn PWA. No, I don't want to download your terribly optimized, huge app to get a receipt...

I'm sorry, but to get my UK ETA for traveling for work I had to download an app that I will literally use 1 time in 2 years because it is valid for 2 years. It could easily be done with a PWA.

It is not more secure, it is less secure for the end user as apps have been caught many many more times stealing data and being malware compared to a web page where you generally have to download malware.

I despise overly-liberal and even overly progressive-minded young people who are absolutely naive and delusional about society, and can only view the world through their bubble that gets reinforced by their friends and online social groups. And I ain't even talking just about tankies and people down at the bottom of internet brainrot barrels.

I am a progressive and believe in socialism and a borderless world and would fight to the death against fascism. But I'm seeing way, way too many young people tuning out of reality and supporting absolutely dumb-as-fuck takes and having unrealistic expectations about what's going to happen in our world.

The lack of ability to recognize how and why a side you oppose wins and gains power is a biproduct of living with those blinders. The dismissal of millions of people who don't think like you is just as bad as the millions of people who hate you for your identity. We have to get a lot smarter and accept a lot more hard truths about how we're going to keep pushing the needle towards progress. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices like getting out and voting even if you don't like the candidate. Supporting and physically getting involved with community and groups even if you're a self-diagnosed introvert with autism.

For some screwball reason, the concept of forcing yourself to do hard things so you get better at them has become very conservative-coded but it's how we've succeeded against evil for generations. We have to start being a lot tougher and stop balking at people who don't share all your values. We win with community and organized resistance, not constant scolding and trying to be the smartest lefty in line for the camps.

I'm often slow to adopt new tech. Unless that tech actually demonstrates a benefit to me, I don't really want to deal with.

A lot of this is due to cynicism regarding things like privacy/security, planned obsolescence, and enshittification. I also don't want to adopt something that is then discontinued ("unplanned" obsolescence?), so I often wait until something becomes well-established.

I'm constantly ragged on for still calling remote controls "the clicker".

I miss physical buttons.

Being older that some people, which is apparently what 30% of people call a "boomer"

The one time I got called a boomer online was because I didn’t understand why artists have “eras” now instead of just albums. I think at the time an artist removed all posts from their socials and the comments are “new era coming soon?” And I asked if that just means they’re dropping a new album

Menus at restaurants are to be printed not via a QR code and a shitty website.

Sometimes I look old just by the way that I touch the screen of my phone. Wtf.

If you're speaking whatever current-gen slang and abbreviating every other word and still use 'u' in place of 'you', I will automatically think you're a lowly neanderthal.

"Whuh up fam? how r u?" The fuck out of here with that shit.

I hate that every facet of human existence is being monetized.

• 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.

• 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.

• I still prefer in-person interactions, jobs, lessons, and shopping to online ones (but support having online options for those who prefer them).

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 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.

In person interaction is infinitely superior to anything done online. "Meeting" people online just doesn't hit the same, even with video calls.

About every 20 minutes or so, I say "That's how they get ya", while looking up something on my 5-years-out-of-date "smart"phone that can't download any new apps.

Your nose ring makes you look like a bull.

I prefer calling people to texting them.

But I also don't like being called.

I guess those are my two wolves.

I buy music instead of paying for a streaming service like Spotify

I still avoid online dating no matter what. Also, I don't take dick picks. Not that I have any dms that would solicit that anyway, but I also just don't do that. There was a major breach for one of the popular dating platforms recently and similar to that, some dude in OZ land setup an evil twin WiFi at airport and managed to grab a bunch of naked photos from people's online activity. Just don't do it guys. It's not worth it. Just go somewhere ffs and bang someone.

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!

I avoid smart home type shit

I prefer buying stuff in stores rather than online. I need to see it physically before you scam me.

Edit: my back hurts

Don't lower AC below 68 during the Summer. Don't crank the heat past 76 in the winter. We got a drafty house but it doesn't need to be a summer atmosphere when it's 20 degrees outside.

Also don't run the water continuously while doing the dishes. That one was beat into me as a kid. Watching my brother and his baby momma leave the water running when they're cleaning baby bottles turns me redder than a boiling lobster. Doesn't help that Mom got us all together and said the water bill went up almost 100 since the baby was born. Took everything in my body to not point at those two like a dog snitching on his friend.