My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go. What’s yours?

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    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!

  • lohky@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I can’t keep up with all the social justice stuff so I just quit caring about most of it.

    I think Nick Mullen vocalized it best when people started throwing them Ukranian flag in their usernames and he was miffed that he had to remember another type of “gay” again.

    Liberals are out here doing victory laps about pronouns in bios while their actual rights are getting systematically stripped away.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      can’t agree enough. most of the focus is on the performative bullshit, not enough on actual policy that might result in a positive goal.

      i remember how many ukraine flag people were ‘against giving ukraine more weapons because war is bad and people will die’…

      same with the trans stuff the past few years. most of the people who freaked out about pronouns are the same types who refuse to vote because ‘voting is pointless’ or voting is ‘supporting the system’. also if you actaully wanted to talk about trans issues… you were a bigot. talking about it makes you a bigot.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Games used to be finished before they were released…bugs me.

    Also physical media is hugely important to keep corporations from slurping up everything and charging subscriptions.

  • HollowV@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 hours ago

    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.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I despise the idea of an influencer. I hate the idea. I hate the word. I really do not like people that describe themselves this way. These people are the problem.

    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
      0·
      4 hours ago

      US Millennial here. I get why we’re upset all the time. All my life I’ve seen some sort of progression that has felt like it was going positive even if it was slow as fuuuuuck. However, in the last 11-12 months I’ve seen all of that raped by a bunch of narcissistic, racist, fuckwads who are only looking for power grabs.

      I’ve always known the world is cruel and unfair. So I’ve expected it, but I didn’t expect how fast everything here at home would deteriorate. Especially coming from a family where my Grandpa served in the American army in WW2 and married a German survivor and now my parents are all up in Fox News, OAN, and Facebook propaganda.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        that’s what politics has always been. it’s just more transparent now. it’s not the act that upsets you, it’s the obviousness of it all rather than it being done quietly. it’s the quiet part being spoken outloud

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I guess I’m realizing some of them aren’t so bad (Congolese and Canadians) but I don’t think I’ll ever learn to like someone from France.

  • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
    28·
    10 hours ago

    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

    • moondoggie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I’d call that boomer-adjacent. You think you should be able to, but boomers believe you actually can.

    • Tujio@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      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.

    • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 hours ago

      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.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
      2·
      6 hours ago

      That’s actually a viable tactic in my field. The first three jobs in my field of expertise I got by walking into the clinic/office and giving my resume to the manager/owner.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    3·
    6 hours ago

    I buy music. Drm free. I don’t want to rent it from Spotify. It’s Bandcamp Friday today btw, where the people making the music get a bigger cut.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
      24·
      11 hours ago

      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?

      • med@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 hours ago

        That is 500Mb+ because the ‘designer’ just stuffed the highest quality image in they could as a background on the whole thing

      • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        11 hours ago

        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.

    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      9 hours ago

      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.

    • Ziggurat@jlai.lu
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I’ve seen restaurant where you need to order on a smartphone. That’s just ridiculous

    • embed_me@programming.dev
      1·
      10 hours ago

      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.

  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
    141·
    9 hours ago

    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?

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Exactly that. Tech enthusiests will have smart everything, their fridge will tell them when the milk goes bad. Tech workers know where the IoT data goes, if they have smart things, they built them themselves… Except the printer, but there is a loaded gun kept next to it, just incase it makes a noise they dont recognize.

  • lime@feddit.nl
    29·
    10 hours ago

    • 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).

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 hours ago

      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.

    • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      9 hours ago

      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?!

      • Ziggurat@jlai.lu
        1·
        8 hours ago

        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?!

        I’ve recently seen an add stating that, big brand washing machine have WiFi, we have quality and low pricesbut indeed, it’s getting crazy, and what happens when you change ISP?

        • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          8 hours ago

          I do not know what happens during an ISP change, but i do know that during the recent amazon server outage, these smart appliances stopped working. There was a case where someone with a smart matress (yeah apperently that exists), couldnt sleep because the matress was launched into a weird W shape position and heated itself up.

          • AA5B@lemmy.world
            1·
            59 minutes ago

            My point is that’s not a necessary part of smart devices. That’s user-hostile implementation by the vendor. They have to go through more effort seeding _more money_in order to make them this bad.

            Hopefully with the (slow) rollout of the new Matter/Thread standards and smart devices becoming mainstream, more manufacturers will have to add value with their smart functionality instead of looking at them as additional revenue streams or customer lock-in

          • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            7 hours ago

            Well that’s a new nightmare fuel for me. Glitchy mattresses.

            I feel like I’m pretty tech-savvy… which is why I don’t want software in anything where plain old physics will do the job. Software breaks.

            • AA5B@lemmy.world
              1·
              50 minutes ago

              As a software engineer, my variation on this is

              • smart functionality should be in addition to regular functionality, never instead of
              • everything should work “normally” if the smart functionality is not available for any reason
              • no effing vendor portals, no effing ads, no effing data collection
              • smart functionality should be accessible locally to my house ONLY

              As an example, a smart light switch should be a light switch that everyone is familiar with and works as they expect to turn on and off the light. in addition I might make it accessible on my local network to voice assistant, turn it on or off by schedule or when I arrive at home ir enter the room