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?
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 hear you and what you say sounds reasonable but I haven't actually met any younger people in real life that do that shit. The kids seem to be fighting mighty hard to me.
Now, closely related but I think different (correct me if I misunderstood you) I do know some real-life accelerationists who felt that not voting would "bring down the system faster so it can be replaced by something better" which is horribly, laughably naive.
Conservative-coding of things that are actually just healthy personality balance is a real thing. Bravery, duty and basic acceptance we're mortals in an ugly world also come to mind.
There's enough history written down to say for sure it's going to self correct. Hopefully not in the "everyone like that went to a camp, but some of their ideas found a new audience a century later" way.
I am developing an increasing worry that with the way society is atomizing, that our progressive side is going to collapse under the tendency to make "everything I don't like = conservatism and nazis" and I know that sounds a lot like the conservative complaint that the left calls everything they don't like "nazis" but there is truth to it and the term "nazi" is just one word in a growing list of ideals and tools of power that are being discarded because "the other side" uses them.
For example: the US flag. It has become a stereotype in the US that if you fly an American flag on your house or car, you are a conservative/right-wing nationalist. "America bad" is a lefty stereotype for good reason.
Meanwhile, until we get to that post-scarcity Star Trek universe, we're all still just tribes. And groups of nationalists have been the number one strongest force for change and power on our planet since we started drawing borders. It's pure political capital to have the support of armed groups of "patriots" and this is why everyone in politics is so deferential to our orange clown president, because he commands a political nuclear weapon in the form of history's oldest power source. January 6th was a weapons demonstration, not a real attempt at coup.
You simply do not get the massive global political machine to move with finger-wagging and lectures. You need force to back up your demands.
I wish I could get the left to reclaim the flag. I know America isn't a source of pride for the people harmed by America, but if you're here and you want to make the place better, you should show that you support at least it's potential and promise.
Don't get me started on guns.
Guns are a great example under "accepting we're mortals in an ugly world", actually. Nobody is seriously claiming they're going away, but the way they're talked about by the left, you would think undoing a technology is on the table.
I mean, you can still want more gun control, and most other nations have gone that way, but the only people mentioning they'll still be around in some way tend to be on the right - because that's ugly.
For example: the US flag. It has become a stereotype in the US that if you fly an American flag on your house or car, you are a conservative/right-wing nationalist. “America bad” is a lefty stereotype for good reason.
Fun fact, it was leaking into Canada for a while. Unnecessary maple leafs meant you probably didn't like vaccines or Trudeau. Then you guys (well, Trump; we know there's another party) talked about annexing us and made patriotism neutral again. Thanks?
January 6th was a weapons demonstration, not a real attempt at coup.
That's an interesting way of looking at it, although I'm not convinced it wasn't just stupidity on their part. The right also have hangups that will self-correct, in their own way.
That's kind of what I was going to say about tribalism as a force, too. Nobody turns their noses up at an Irish name today, and nobody will be impressed by lifted pickups and ill-informed scriptural references in the future. The idea of elected representatives has been around for centuries, though.
I miss physical buttons.
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 a software engineer that is also deeply uninterested in chasing shiny new things. I think another factor is that tech that I did care about has somewhat stalled out.
I’ve had iPhones since a I think the iPhone 4. I’m on the iPhone 11 which released back in 2019, I only really upgraded because my iPhone 8s battery was crapping out.
There’s just nothing exciting about these newer devices, same form factor, same OS, same basic functionality. And in a similar fashion, anything new is stuff I don’t really give a shit about. Oh it can do some kind of ai thing I don’t want, no thanks.
I’ve tried to see it as a positive. I have lots of stuff that I’ve filled my life up with, things that are meaningful to me. I think that’s what took up the space I used to fill with reading about and getting excited about this new gadget or that one. Now I’m excited to go see my niece’s Christmas recital or bake cookies with my wife to take to a friends of the library event.
Doesn’t hurt that every company seems to be in a non stop contest to see how little they can give the consumer for the maximum price while installing as much revenue generating spyware as possible.
I'm also a software engineer who doesn't care about most new tech. I strongly believe that human made objects and software can both reach a state of doneness. For example, books are a technology that's "done". Both physical and digital books do a great job at delivering written content, so there's no need to keep buying the same damn thing every couple years. Phones are similar, yet the new ones just get shittier (no removable battery, no headphone jack). Kind of reminds me of how Microsoft keeps trying to solve the "problem" of programmers being needed to create programs. Powerapps being one of the latest examples.
I'm constantly ragged on for still calling remote controls "the clicker".
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 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).
Being older that some people, which is apparently what 30% of people call a "boomer"
In person interaction is infinitely superior to anything done online. "Meeting" people online just doesn't hit the same, even with video calls.
I prefer calling people to texting them.
But I also don't like being called.
I guess those are my two wolves.
You’re a living personification of “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”
Sometimes I look old just by the way that I touch the screen of my phone. Wtf.
I have twice now tried to pinch to zoom a book or something I was reading. Is that the opposite of boomer? Or boomery because it's so stupid?
Not alone.
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.
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.
And get a password manager. They solve the problem of both password reuse and typing it in the wrong field.
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.
Yeah, text-speak made sense years ago when the length of text messages was limited and you had to do that to get around it. Nowadays it just makes you look lazy and unintelligent.
It reminds me of that (fake, I know) experiment with the apes that got sprayed with water cannons if they did the wrong thing. They're doing something without understanding why they're doing it, and if they did know why they were doing it and they wouldn't bother.
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.
Caring about tech issues seems more like a gen X/Millennial thing to me. Most of gen Z hasn't figured out the problem yet; most older people just see a magic box. Obviously there's exceptions at both ends.
Edit: And gen Alpha might be old people all over again in a different way. We'll see.
I avoid smart home type shit
As someone who is all-in on smart home kit, I tend to agree. Everyone who visits my home loves how it all works, but I have a strict rule that nothing is connected to the Internet: it's either a local protocol (ZigBee, Matter) or connected to a local-only VLAN and is orchestrated by Home Assistant. It's increasingly difficult to recommend products to people starting out that don't involve some vague cloud service that can't be relied on, and most people don't want to go from zero to Home Assistant.
Okay we need to talk about this because in my opinion this hasnt become a boomer opinion that, as proven over and over again, is just a better and smarter decision. Most of things that are "smart" dont need to be. Why does a fridge, toaster, TV, matress or oven need to be connected to the internet??! For what?!
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
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 prefer buying stuff in stores rather than online. I need to see it physically before you scam me.
Edit: my back hurts
I refuse to use overly smart devices. Yes, I have a few zigbee light switches and thermostats that are controlled by a local HomeAssistant installation but why would I want to by my fridge, dishwasher and toothbrush to be connected to the internet?
I don't like "smart" features, I hate being forced to create accounts for everything, I want my data to only be local, I loathe smileys, I'd much rather talk to you face to face, I don't know wtf is an app and why yours is just a wrapper to your webpage, pure html pages with terrible colour choices are fucking class, I say "hacker" to mean "hacker" and not "cracker", I still don't understand the success of tablets, and you look like a dick with your mini doomscroll machine on your wrist.
EDIT: fixing rage induced typos
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.
The kids' new slang is fucking stupid. My son last night was excited about his skills in the game he was playing and told me he was " cracked " ... cracked?
Man, like, I know we used " bad " to mean good, but come on. Cracked? Cracked is a crazy person. Cracked is how we pirated computer games. Cracked is your engine block after you poured cold water in an overheated car.
This is even stupider than " crashing out " meaning you threw a temper tantrum instead of falling asleep after an up all night acid trip.
I fucking hate it.
...i expect institutions to protect me...i call my representative and senators and get platitudes...i keep calling...
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