Asklemmy

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.

Single player modes in games shouldn't require internet connection.

Cars shouldn't be loaded with user-facing technology. Bring back analog dashboards and buttons for climate control!

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.

• 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 😅:

• Handkerchiefs kick the shit out of paper tissues.
• Cars have made the world a worse place.

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

GIVE ME BACK MY DAMN 3.5MM HEADPHONE JACK ON MY PHONE!!!

I do not like comic book movies.

Not meeting up with friends at a loud venue, I like to talk to them not try to shout over the music.

:) or 🙂 is nice and not passive-agressive

I'll trade the large phone display for a physical keyboard.

Alcohol is toxic, carcinogenic garbage and we'd be noticeably better off if everyone voluntarily stopped drinking it.

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.

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.

CLI > GUI on PC.

I use an iPod and physical media for most of my music

Advertisements shouldn't have anything sexual in them

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 Pokémon 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