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

  • Hobo@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    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.

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    4 hours ago

    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.

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    7 hours ago

    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.

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    5 hours ago

    Two spaces go after a period

    I’m more likely to use my computer than my phone unless it’s directly phone-related. And if I can send a text from my computer? Hell yeah

    I’m more likely to use an emoticon than an emoji

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    6 hours ago

    All of them. Lol. Things were definitely better 20 years ago than they were now. Kids these days, etc etc.

    I also really want to separate from all of technology!!!

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    7 hours ago

    I cannot play with a controller. My fingers fall on any surface at the exact distance between W, A and D on the keyboard.

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    9 hours ago

    Which one, lol.

    I despise videos in place of text/pic how-to.

    I’m starting to run out of fucks to give when it comes to dealing with tech. Doesn’t matter what it is. Overcomplicated car infotainment. Burying features in deep OS menus. Shitty website design that hides info. Phone trees. “AI assistants” in pretty much everything. Etc.

    I think most modern popular music absolutely sucks. No art, no ability to sing, all formulaic, a lyrical desert, and autotuned to shit.

    It’s gotta be a mental illness, this constant need for public commentary via uploading everything you do to be viewed by others. Particularly things like “this is me crying because I got yelled at” kind of stuff. Vapid. Shallow. Go touch some grass and don’t fucking record it.

    Yeah. I’m missing the more disconnected life we used to have.

    (No, I’m not going to say it was all better back in the day. It wasn’t. Just our problems weren’t compounded by things like social media)

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      I dig electric propulsion.

      I don’t want a dashboard full of computer screens, bullshit half-baked features that won’t ever work right, and controls that are weird for the sake of being weird. Give me a vehicle with the exact same UI as my 2005 Buick Century but with batteries and motors instead of gas tank and engine.

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        7 hours ago

        You don’t actually own the car you bought, it’s impossible to repair via third party

        I think EVs only exist to bail out the failing car industry

        I also think fire risks are underestimated and unlike a normal car fire you can’t just put it out with an extinguisher. I live in BC and one day there’s going to be an EV fire on a ferry and the entire narrative is going to change

        I also think they are just plain boring. I hate modern cars entirely but EVs have such a numbed down driving experience that it’s just depressing. In the future I’ll probably just stop driving cars entirely. I live in a pretty bikeable area but the only reason I drive is because I simply enjoy driving my sports car over a bike

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          7 hours ago

          You don’t actually own the car you bought, it’s impossible to repair via third party

          I think this is a valid point, but it isn’t just a thing in the electric car industry. Gas engine cars are doing this shit too. My girlfriend’s new chevy malibu has an app that lets you start the car remotely from your phone, but you have to pay a subscription to use the feature. The enshitification is everywhere.

          You’re right, lithium battery fires are more difficult to extinguish.

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            6 hours ago

            She should sell that car, and buy the best possible older lexus with the funds haha. That malibu won’t be on the road in 5 years

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    11 hours 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!

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    9 hours ago

    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.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    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.