My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go. What’s yours?
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?
☝️ this is it.
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.
Honestly those big tablets they have in some fast food places like tim hortons are quite good because they let me see every item and order easily. Of course, that wouldn’t be a problem if they hadn’t replaced a normal menu with those dumbass tvs that switch off of what you’re trying to read every two seconds.
I FUCKING HATE QR CODE MENUS SO MUUUUCH!!!
If your wifi is bad or I just don’t want to wait to load a tiny goddamn webpage, I’m gone.
It’s really not hard to print a menu for a restaurant. The minimal amount of effort.
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
I’d be inclined to blame the restaurant for that one. The designer would normally be making it for print, in which case higher quality is better. If the restaurant wants a digital menu, they should ask for that.
A date night is better when both leave their phones at home. Or at least away for the date.
This sucks.
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 miss physical buttons.
I hate that every facet of human existence is being monetized.
You must have a very left-leaning sample of boomers.
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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.
I really don’t want to deal with two factor logins and email verification for an account that doesn’t have financial transactions.
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!
How is that a boomer trait?
The only one who wants you to use the cloud is the man who owns the fucking cloud.
I’ve actually begun DIYing a syncthing based mesh of my devices plus a NAS I’ll make from an old ThinkPad because honestly, fuck those cloud services.
I used to love the cloud, I saw it as really convenient, but now I just see it as a pretty ok way to back up all my old school work, plus OneDrive screaming at me to sign in, then automatically signing me in without asking…
Sure the DIY NAS I’m making is just an old ThinkPad 11e school laptop’s board and battery, and some USB to m.2 dongles, but it’ll be pretty damn good for a net cost of probably 100 bucks total
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.
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.
Same. I will have no phone before I upload my face to verify access to a website, or before I delete my VPN. I will download Wikipedia and go live offline in a hut, idgaf.
I’m with you.
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.
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.
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?
Not sure but it involves walking up to a stranger, spontaneously making conversation with them, handing over a sheet of paper full of your personal information and they being judged for how well you did which sounds about as anti-Lemmy as it gets.
Warehouse in a commercial/industrial industry.
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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.
I have on a regular basis. So much so I quit a lot of stuff to avoid their endless insane stupidity and their raw emotional takes that are totally delusional.
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.
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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.
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Totally agree. I hung a flag for the same reason, why should the right get to “own” the symbol of America. I ended up taking it down though since my wife thought it would give people the wrong impression of us…
We have a pride flag & an American flag. And sometimes a Jolly Roger. I agree, you cannot let the conservatives define themselves as the real Americans. I am here, I’m from here, wanting a better America is patriotic.
Good point. I think I need to pair it with something else to make clear what it means to me.
nah this is exactly why i gave up a lot of social stuff. too many bubble-brain idiots who become violent the second they hear an opinion or an idea that they mildly disagree with. it’s not just young people either.
i never dealt with such craziness 10+ years ago, but it started exploding with social media growth and is rampant now.
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.
Don’t leave it too long. My mother law has only just started online banking and it’s been an absolute nightmare.
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.
20 years is ambitious lol
You’re probably right 😅
My car’s radio busted last year. Instead of replacing it with a modern touchscreen, or paying $3000 for a manufacturer replacement, I’ve simply gone without it. Thing is, the radio includes the back-up camera screen. It also contains the controls to the car’s clock. So half the year the time is off by an hour, and I’ve gotten used to backing up my car “the old fashioned way.”
Thankfully, none of these are issues I can’t tolerate. But it does make me wonder what would’ve happened if I’d had a newer car. If so many functions can rely on a radio, how many more functions might somebody get screwed out of if this same issue were to happen in a newer vehicle?
I just put in a nice android auto one into my 25 year old vehicle. And added a backup camera 😂. My vehicle didn’t have the option back in the day. Did that for about 500$
20 years sounds incredibly optimistic for any Samsung appliance.
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.
Owning a house
I’m constantly ragged on for still calling remote controls “the clicker”.
The reason they were called that is becaus a lot of early models use ultrasonic rather than infrared or radio so they made a loud clicking noise. My grandparents and aunts were familiar with those so they still called all remotes the clicker.
The thing is, growing up we had a Bang & Olufsen TV remote that had clicky buttons - really, very satisfyingly clicky - even though it used RF, but I just assumed all remotes were like that and that’s why they were called clickers.
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.”
these aren’t mutually exclusive. you prefer communicating verbally, but don’t like being intruded upon. that’s fair.
now if you go and call people without warning… yeah there’s some irony lol
Yeah, I’m fully hypocritical in this regard. I’ll call people randomly “just to chat” with no notice haha.
Doesn’t that just mean you schedule calls over text? That step is not very boomer of you
Nah, I’ll call without warning “just to chat”… or because I get frustrated trying to make plans over text.
But I get anxious and/or annoyed when my own phone rings without warning, and might not even pick up haha.
In person interaction is infinitely superior to anything done online. “Meeting” people online just doesn’t hit the same, even with video calls.
I’m always amazed at how personal everything still is in Germany. When there was a problem with a tax form, I got a call from a guy at the tax office who gave me his name and number so I was able to call him back with any other problems. When I had to get insurance for my mother in law’s car, I got a call from my MIL’s insurance to discuss a discount. Referred to surgeon? Doctor called surgeon, made an appointment for later that day and every day for the rest of the week.
