My old person trait is that I think ‘ghosting’ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.
I think that a basic lifestyle should be affordable for a basic person
my old person trait is remembering that it didn’t use to be this hot in the summer where I live.
Oof.
I have a few. And I’m not even that old (mid thirties)
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People who talk on phone calls using airpods or similar look ridiculous in public, like they’re utter lunatics talking to themselves or their imaginary friend.
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people who view life through their mobile phones are unfortunate and sad. Like…why pay money to go see a gig if you’re going to view it through your phone screen? I went to a wedding last week and I was one of the very few who was actually watching the procession with my own eyes rather through a camera app.
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Not being on social media should be an accepted norm, not a fucking exception. This is an issue when dating, unbelievably.
I went to a wedding last week and I was one of the very few who was actually watching the procession with my own eyes rather through a camera app.
Exactly why that during our wedding we made a PSA to not take pictures or videos, and we have a dedicated professional taking care of that and we’ll give access to those photos after.
I have an old person trait. WHERE IS MY PHYSICAL PC GAMES
I used to always buy physical pc games and then redeem the codes on steam! This was back when I ran a gaming store for a couple of years. Got Fallout New Vegas and Portal 2 cheaper than on steam this way, and with staff discount on top too
Still have the boxes and dvds! I miss the old big box monkey island era tho, dial a pirate lol
The not being on social media one sucks when dating for sure.
“How do I know you aren’t a weirdo, creep, stalker etc?”
“You don’t and me having social media wouldn’t change that either.”
Sure I could play ball and make myself a presence but honestly I’m happy enough being single that I’ll gladly dodge any lady who isn’t on board with my lack of social media.
Just a shame that in a numbers game that a relatively high proportion choose such a non issue to be a sticking point.
I think the numbers may work in your favor the other way. The coolest / funnest / most interesting people I know have minimal or no social media presence. There are fewer of them, sure, but a much higher percentage of them are cool people vs the mindless drones who see everything in life as a photo op which they can post on their curated online persona’s webpages.
the social media part - I’m so tired of justifying why I don’t have Instagram or Twitter to people. They think you’re weird if you don’t have one. I usually just say I used to have it but deleted it because it was stressful, but I don’t think I should have to justify it at all
How I see it, not needing to be in the big social is a privilege. If you can stay out, enjoy. I know a lot of artists etc. who, if they left the big social, would soon have no work or income.
Me? I open LinkedIn when I need a new job, that’s all.
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I refuse to use subscription software. If I can’t buy it outright, I either use an alternative or take to seas.
I love software like Lightburn where you just pay a set amount for so many years of updates and support and when it runs out you can choose to leave it like that or buy more updates and support for a smaller fee.
That tactic is used some companies I have stuff from. It’s on the razors fucking edge of acceptable to me.
You just want free support for ever? Lmao, that’s very unreasonable.
My old person trait is that none of the things mentioned in the linked image happened on accident.
They happened because capitalism doesn’t give a fuck about anything except bleeding as much money as conceivably possible out of each and every human.
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Apps allow companies to suck more data out of your device than a website, allowing them to sell more of your data and… make more money.
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Video games needing access to the internet is simply Digital Rights Management and a way to prevent piracy and… make more money. Remember, most companies view something pirated as a “lost sale,” not that you would have never purchased it to begin with. As Gabe Newell once said:
“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,” he said. “If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable."
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This one speaks for itself. Being able to be in control of the products you buy is freedom. Having products controlled remotely by a corporation is giving them carte blanche to make more money off of you.
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Removing accessible customer service means more people will just give up on trying to get their problem solved, effectively allowing the company to steal from people and… shocker… make more money.
I agree, in theory, in respect to ghosting, but we live in a society that teaches us to be isolated, and doesn’t teach interpersonal skills unless the interpersonal skill is “Fuck you, got mine.” (which is, not surprisingly, a thing about making more money.)
In other words, these aren’t old people opinions. These are “I’m not gonna let capitalism absolutely fuck me endlessly” opinions.
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My old person traits are most of all posted here because I am an old person.
But I’ll add that my old person traits is that I think a living wage should support… er… living, including a place to live, food to eat, paying for services, buying clothes, getting decent public health and education, and even have spare money for your free time (hobbies, eat out, theatre, concerts, etc.).
Capitalism enters the chat
Capitalism: Nah bro. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work. Are you lazy and don’t want to work anymore? Be loyal to your company and work for them for 60 years. Your hard work will reap you many rewards so that your CEO can buy a new yacht.
Reaganism enters the chat
Reaganism: Oh hell yeah we’re about to trickle down some wealth, everyone! My newfound wealth and yacht will trickle down to you all, somehow potentially. So that’s your benefit. Trust us! Check out the next comment to this post and get ready for that economic stimulus that you paid for! It’s coming!
Inexorable machinery of capitalism whirs into the chat
Machinery of Capitalism: Hey, working class! Give us more blood so our gears can continue to whir.
Working Class feebly crawls into the chat
Working Class: We’re too tired from work. We’re too tired fighting with each other because the Wealthy Class pits us against each other. We’re too tired and distracted to unite because we think the others in the working class are against us rather than focusing on the real problem. We are too manipulated by you and believe we’re in a culture war, when the real problem is the inexorable class war where you transfer all the wealth from us to you. We just want to have freedom, pay our bills without worry, not destroy our planet, and retire while being happy. We just want to be able to afford to eat. If you keep this up and break us to the point of no return, we just may have to eat the rich.
Capitalism: Gulp! Let’s think of something new we can distract you with or some other corporation/wealthy controversial person we can exploit to manipulate you all into being divided again. We summon Ron DeSantis! I choose you, Vladimir Putin! Use “War on Ukraine” - it’s super effective! Ron DeSantis, use “scummy villain civil rights” Special Move! It’s Super Effective! Now stand still while we take away your rights, your money, your choice, and your autonomy.
Working Class: … Okay, you win again. You’re right - as a farmer, I definitely see that the hunters are trying to take away my pitchforks. The butchers are trying to steal my chickens. Farmers - unite! Let’s kill those hunters and butchers.
Machinery of Capitalism, smiling and satisfied, continues to do parasite things while the Rich riches their riches harder
- Repeat this cycle for all of time and humanity’s history *
Wealthy Class: Oh heck yeah I’m about to trickle down some wealth to you all! Everybody hold out their hands.
Proceeds to trickle a small handout only to the Butchers
Butchers: Thank you!! This is so generous!
Farmers + Hunters: WTF?! How come you Butchers got the money? Let’s go complain to the Wealthy Class and figure out what happened!
Wealthy Class: WTF? How can this be? Butchers - explain yourself!
Butchers: We worked hard for this and we need this money.
Farmers + Hunters: Hey, screw you! How can you be so greedy when we need the money, too? Let’s fight!
Butchers: Them’s fighting words. You guys suck, why can’t you work harder?
Farmers, Hunters, and Butchers proceed to rassle
Wealthy Class:
Wow okay gramps. Check out old boy here not juggling three jobs to pay off crippling debt and eating ramen 3 meals a day.
- Just installed a messenger. It uses more RAM than my first PC had for displaying a simple, empty list. I find that inexcusable.
Welcome to the world of abstraction. Now developers can pump out shitty apps 10x faster and it only cost all your computer’s resources
Electron is built on several layers of inefficiencies that each grant ease of development. We also have a thousand times more RAM than we did back then. I think it’s a fair trade.
My old person trait is that instructions do not need to be videos.
I think cars should not be dependent on a touch screen for ANY of it’s functions (or really have one at all). They are more difficult to use than tactile buttons, distracting, and do not receive long term support from the OEM.
What do you do with a 10 year old car that runs but the touch screen nuked due to age, firmware bugs or mechanical damage? Ford isn’t going to be selling replacement units 10 years later and I have yet to see an ‘infotainment’ system that has aftermarket replacement considerations.
My old person trait is that I want video to be horizontal.
Honestly short form videos are so dangerous to my already short attention span
Doesn’t help that even YouTube is shoving them down people’s throats now
Because the video is short, people don’t need a seek bar right? Right?
The YouTube Enhancer Chrome extension has an option to fix that, do try it on desktop.
You can somewhat avoid them on YouTube, but they’re really annoying on Instagram, given that I’m using the platform for photography, and augmented by the fact that I can’t disable autoplay.
You can’t really avoid them on YouTube mobile, you get a row of shorts every 2 or 3 normal videos in the list
Yeah, you might be right. I haven’t checked the YouTube app in a while, which reminds me I have to get around installing Revanced.
I’ve looked at revanced but the UI/UX kinda sucks imo
Don’t watch them then? You can blame everything on other things, or you can avoid short form content.
You can’t avoid it when it’s shoved in your face every 3 videos you scroll past on mobile
Don’t say that, I am 19 and also want horizontal videos. Is 19 old nowadays?
Don’t say that, I am 19 and also want horizontal videos. Is 19 old nowadays?
Don’t say that, I am 19 and also want horizontal videos. Is 19 old nowadays?
Where should I start? I like to own my music, stream it from my server @home, I like to use a calculator, just because I like them. And I like to do things in a terminal, even when it takes 5x the time and a hand full of code. I like to connect things with cables instead of wireless, still faster and more secure, got a full cupboard of cables and adapters, I even collect movies and ebooks on my drives with the thought of “the day the internet brakes down I’ll be the king here”. Maybe it’s because I AM old?! That kind of old, there was a time I spent money for a ringtone.
Wait. Can I actual do some things faster with a mouse? I’ve been outside of terminal last time seven years ago, don’t remember that well…
For me the terminal is rarely faster the first time, but the second, third, nth time I need to do it it’s way faster than using GUI. Also have a history trail of what I did.
I backed up a ton of reddit porn in June.
I also have like 8tb of movies and tv on my home server.
Still haven’t setup port forwarding through my website, but I intend to.
I also wanna make a little app, just for me and my server. But Plex is exactly what I’d be trying to make, so…
That all current, popular, music really sucks.
I saw a youtube video talking about why all current music kinda sucks and sounds the same. I think you’ll find it very interesting.
It’s worth noting though that the shitty music of yesteryear doesn’t persist in the public consciousness. When we think of music from previous generations, we’re thinking about the stuff that was good enough to last (or bad enough, I suppose, if it’s notably bad). So the popular music of today may seem to be dominated by shit, but you’d have to examine what else was on the airwaves of a given era to really make a good comparison.
I also think there’s two major factors brought on by technological advancement and they both have a positive side. There are a lot more avenues to discover music than there have ever been. Musicians no longer have to be extremely talented and have broad appeal to reach an audience. From the listener’s point of view, it’s much easier to find good music that fits your particular tastes. And I think that in turn leaves more room in the mainstream avenues for lower quality but broadly appealing music.
The other factor is the accessibility of the technology to make and share music, which I think makes it easier for both “good” and “bad” music to find it’s way outside of the artist’s bedroom, so to speak.
well said. well said. you dont exactly need a record company for your music to reach an audience these days, you can do what you like and no one can say ‘this wont sell, fuck off,’ you can have your own small audience that loves and respects you.
but another argument is that the current ‘top’ artists are ‘on the top’ because they have their names. if they published an album with another name, i believe it would be challenged. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stephen King gained significant popularity as a horror writer. However, he wanted to test if his success was solely due to his name or if his writing could stand on its own. To do this, King created the pen name Richard Bachman, and people loved the supposed Richard Bachman books.
Concurring with my argument by citing one of my favorite authors. 😊
Did we just become Lemmy-friends?
hmm, lemmy see
ill show myself out
On one hand I think every generation says the next generations music sucks, but I also think overall things have gotten so streamlined and repetitive that finding good current music is a chore.
I disagree that you owe a face to face conversation. No one should forced to go meet someone if they don’t feel like it.
In the context of dating, if you get ghosted, consider that the person is not interested in you after all - and just move on. No big deal.
It’d of course be nice to be rejected directly, and i much prefer it over getting ghosted, but I’m a big boy. I can handle not having things my preferred way all the time.
My old person trait is I shouldn’t have to scan a QR code for the menu at a sit-down where I’m dropping $100 on entrées. Give me a dang physical copy of the menu!
I prefer written guides to video guides.
Video has some clear advantages when showing off a 3D space and otherwise, but I dislike pausing them over and over. Especially if my hands are covered in oil and grease, a paper version is superior to a screen.
