Music in restaurants and bars is just too loud. I know why the music is loud, but I am still going to shake my fist at it like Grandpa Simpson.
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Same. It's getting worse over time too, I can hardly hear anything anyone is saying in restaurants and bars anymore.
I felt my inner boomer grow stronger after writing that.
Cars shouldn't be loaded with user-facing technology. Bring back analog dashboards and buttons for climate control!
I just want to be able to adjust the stereo without looking away from the road. Is that too much to ask?
I'm not subscribing to anything. If I buy something, it's fully functional, and it's mine. There is no ongoing relationship between me and the manufacturer. Done.
I don't want to have a subscription for everything. It used to be possible to pay a one-time fee for software and use it as long as I want. Now I have to pay a monthly fee and once I finish paying, I can't use the software anymore. And it's not like I constantly get updates for the software. Often it stays the same for months or years.
I understand that software has a price, but no way these prices are sometimes justified...
I have three:
- They don't make things like they used to
- We don't need all these damned computers in everything
- Modern music sounds like crap
I'm 17.
I think two out of those believes stem from survivorship bias. You think of old music and consumer products as superior because the only ones that "survived" are the good ones. No one remembers bad music from 50 years ago, and for every old thermos flask/blender/knife that you see around there are dozens that broke years ago.
- The internet was way better before it became a giant shopping mall.
- Those cars that don't have the flecks in the paint look like children's toys.
Then, I have a couple that pre-date even boomers by many years π :
- Handkerchiefs kick the shit out of paper tissues.
- Cars have made the world a worse place.
I miss the era when the web was just this
Digital privacy is important, and it's important to be anonymous on the internet
I shouldn't have to subscribe to software. And I have only made one exception due to the exceptional functionality of the product.
99% of software asking for a subscription isn't exceptional and could be done as a stand alone item.
Smart TVs are stupid and only exist to make ad revenue and sell user data. I'd pay extra for a TV like an LG C2 OLED but with no OS. Just a monitor that displays sources plugged in.
- In cars knobs are better than touch screens.
- VR was a gimmick 20 years ago, VR is a gimmick today.
Basically any opinion of the modern Internet I give.
I'm a certified computer expert, but I sound like a Luddite when it comes to anything mainstream.
You should be able to repair your own things, without too much money and effort
let me see:
- physical media is Just Better (cds, game cards, etc.)
- the Internet is a technological dumpster fire
- devices are too "smart" nowadays
Cities are too car-oriented
I agree with the sentiment, but this feels like the least boomer opinion ngl
Not meeting up with friends at a loud venue, I like to talk to them not try to shout over the music.
Alcohol is toxic, carcinogenic garbage and we'd be noticeably better off if everyone voluntarily stopped drinking it.
Anecdotally, this is a position I've seen held more often by young people than by boomers. Not sure what the statistics are exactly, but regardless it would be nice to see a cultural shift away from alcohol.
Dating should go back to face to face meetings. People need to get out and see others more, just generally.
As a person who works in tech and is an early adopter for almost every new gizmo out there, I feel that we were better off back in the day when stuff was all analog and things were done manually.
Sure it was inconvenient, but it made us experience the world more and actually interacted with real people. I have crappy social skills and I have seen the change in myself over the years. I get anxious when my phone rings now, as opposed to being excited back in the day.
This makes me think of a quote by Kurt Vonnegut:
βI work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and Iβd never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterward I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, βAre you still doing typing?β Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say, βOkay, Iβll send you the pages.β Then I go down the steps and my wife calls, βWhere are you going?β βWell,β I say, βIβm going to buy an envelope.β And she says, βYouβre not a poor man. Why donβt you buy a thousand envelopes? Theyβll deliver them, and you can put them in the closet.β And I say, βHush.β So I go to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when itβs my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of Forty-seventh Street and Second Avenue, where Iβm secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And Iβve had a hell of a good time. I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and donβt let anybody tell you any different.β
I really believe that part of the loneliness and lack of community many people feel nowadays can be attributed to automating everything for convenience. We miss out on these brief interactions and meaningless smalltalk, giving us less chance to practice our social skills in low-stakes situations. I see the change even in myself; in my college days I didn't really experience much social anxiety since I was always surrounded by people, but now I sometimes find a quick trip to the grocery store somewhat difficult. It's really troubling to think about, and it makes me long for the analog past.
When I was a kid, I could go out and play with other kids on the streets, without fear of being snatched or hit by a car or worse. We made Judas ragdolls before Easter just to burn them, and use them for practical jokes. We used to play some child version of cricket, I've even broke a window of a neighbour doing it.
Children nowadays do not do any of those things dammit. What the fuck? How exactly are you growing up without leaving home? For some it's lack of desire, but for most of them it's outright lack of possibility.
Screw this shit. The world is becoming worse.
It was totally uncool to remove the headphone jack from my device, man.
Containerization seems overrated. I haven't really played with it much, but as far as I can tell, the way it's most commonly used is just static linking with extra steps and extra performance overhead. I can think of situations where containers would actually be useful, like running continuous integration builds for someone you don't entirely trust, but for just deploying a plain old application on a plain old server, I don't see the point of wrapping it in a container.
Mac OS 7 looked cool. So did Windows 95.
Phones are useful, but they're not a replacement for a PC.
I don't want to run everything in a web browser. Using a browser engine as a user interface (e.g. Electron) is fine, but don't make me log in to some web service just to make a blasted spreadsheet.
I want to store my files on my computer, not someone else's.
I don't like laptops. I'd much rather have a roomy PC case so I can easily open it up and change the components if I want. Easier to clean, too.
I use an iPod and physical media for most of my music
Google Docs Editors is inferior to any office productuvity suite, and it's overused in the professional world.
I don't want your fucking Sheets link. Email me the Excel file with _v1 at the end.
I want my Final Fantasy games turn-based not this action-RPG garbage, now get off my lawn!
Drinking is not fun and loud parties too. Just understood, that I haven't had fun there most if the times.
I believe physical books are better than e books.
However, physical work documents are not better than PDFs! Why the hell do boomers print so damn much?
Microservices and general "everything in the cloud" sentiment is stupid, it has ridiculous oerformance overheads and adds single points of failure that can easily prevent half the world from functioning.
Smart tech in general is annoying and dumb. I want my TV to just be a tv with inputs, I don't need built in firmware and updates to shove ads in my face. I don't want my car to have a touch screen to adjust the A/C, just give me a knob or buttons.
Most weed sucks now
I don't care that it has 30% THC, it feels bad
Real weed has curves (in the distribution of cannabinoids)!
Modern [insert any art style] has gotten worst and worse!
(although truth be told, it's more of a millennial "90s cartoons/music/films were so much better" opinion)
I hate music streaming services and rather buy the songs to play them locally on my smartphone.
Kinda mid one, but PokΓ©mon Black/White 2 were the last real games. After that, they started being too 3D and lost a lot of their charm, imo. Gen 3, 4 and 5 as well are so freaking good! Love Emerald in particular (best end-game!) <3