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 thought dinasours were killed by a volcano instead of meteor for years.

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

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...

My joints sound like stepping on a box of Ritz crackers. Does that count?

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.

I often reference my younger years in the late 1900s about how It was this or that. "Back in my day in the late 1900s" kinda thing

I get annoyed when the price tags are too small to read

I think 99% of tattoos look like shit.

I've never used Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok. I'm trying to get away from Facebook currently. I've successfully dumped Twitter, which I hardly used anyway. I only use YouTube because I can still block all ads, but if they ever force ads into my videos, I'll drop it in an instant.

I've never cared for social media except as a way to stay in touch with friends and family, and maybe a way to meet new friends. But modern social media is just garbage content pumped into your feed constantly for clicks and reacts.

The only reason I haven't let go of Facebook is because almost everyone I know is still there. If I dump it, I lose contact with 90% of my social group. I don't really use Facebook anymore though, except to contact people.

EDIT: On a related note, I don't believe children should have electronic devices. Maybe around 10 years old, they should be allowed to carry a locked down phone or something, so their parents can reach them, but they can't browse the Internet or send photos to people, etc.

It was around 2010 or so when I first saw a friend hand their iPad to their 1-yr old to keep them distracted. That was a $600 device! Which was a lot of money for a personal electronic device back then.

As an IT professional who had to fix electronic devices all the time, I mentioned to my friend that a child probably shouldn't have unsupervised access to an iPad, and they told me that's why it has a thick padded case; a lesson they learned when their first iPad got cracked by the child. So the baby broke a $600 iPad and they bought another and handed it back to the kid?! Sheesh...

smartphone bad.

Being annoyed by my friends who can't put their phones down when I'm trying to talk to them because they are doomscrolling on TikTok. Oh and disliking the brainrot that is on TikTok and Instagram. Just hating TikTok.

I had kids a bit older, so I guess some of my parenting is old school. I like to think I'm more open with feelings than my dad, and my children mean everything to me. However, I cannot abide other parents who let their kids dominate and interrupt adult conversations. Sometimes it's necessary, like if an infant has hurt themselves or some thing, but otherwise a child should not interrupt an adult who's talking and, if they do, the parent should tell them to hold on a minute while the adults talk.

I own a house