What's your 'old person' trait?
-
For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I am incredibly difficult to buy gifts for because I have everything I want, which is not much at all.
-
And finally: I still have a flip-phone and have no other computing devices beyond the one desktop PC I'm writing
That is hardcore. I respect it. Even my 86 year old mother has a smartphone.
-
For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I feed pigeons, listen to radio sometimes and I like crossword puzzles
-
I refuse to use TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. I only have Facebook because 90% of my friends and family are there and it's the primary way I stay in touch with them, but I'd like to get rid of that too.
Regarding TikTok, I was serving in the US military as an IT sysadmin when it became popular. But we discovered that the app embedded itself deep in your phone's hardware, granted itself full administrative access to your phone, then started trickling all your data to servers in China. And you couldn't fully uninstall it once you'd installed it once. Your phone was completely compromised if you ever installed that app.
It became a huge security risk and we were told to never use it. It was a horrifyingly effective spy tool China could use to easily collect data on us. That's why President Biden pushed to ban TikTok in the US.
But of course, TikTok became super popular among our civilian population and they refused to give it up, which led to a lot of pushback against the ban. It never held, and now people are still using it and sharing all their private information with China.
Meta does something similar with Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp, but we at least can keep tabs on what they're doing with your private data, since they're an American company. They mostly use your information to build advertising profiles on you, to better catch your attention with ads. But that information could easily be used against you if federal organizations wanted to. ICE could use it to identify non-white Americans and their daily habits and easily intercept them.
Still, if you don't want your private information being potentially stolen by these companies, it's best to dump these programs. I don't install them on my phone or tablet and I keep Facebook's website isolated on my computer, since it likes to read other open windows and use those sites to fine-tune advertising data for you.
Google has turned into one of these companies that collects data on everything you do, so I'm in the middle of de-Googling my life right now. But it's really hard because they're embedded everywhere.
We're living in a dark time where the only way to prevent corporations and governments from collecting information on you is to stay offline. Which is nearly impossible nowadays. We don't get privacy in this modern Information Age. Not while Capitalism is still a thing.
wrote last edited by [email protected]that's gonna need to be sourced.
is tiktok really exploiting phones to root them, then covertly installing itself "deep in your hardware"?
-
For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I refuse to scan a qr code for a menu. Give me a damn piece of paper
-
I've started noticing birds, and worse, I've started recognizing them.
I can spot pawpaw trees going down the highway...
-
For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I'm always up to date on the grocery store sales in my area and when there's something especially good on sale I will show up at the store when it opens at 7:30.
-
It's interesting because inside the US, this is a totally valid opinion to hold. Outside the US, many people end up having to pay per message, but can use data for free via WiFi, so it makes more sense that these apps are popular there.
It used to be pay per SMS (and not cheap either), that's why WhatsApp got so big in the first place, it was "free" anywhere with free WiFi. But since many years now, regular SMS became free / dirt cheap (especially within EU), so it's no longer as good as a reason to use WhatsApp now. Now it's because it has groups, media, history, is searchable, etc.
-
I prefer an analog kitchen. Spring based scales, wooden utensils, gas stove, glass storage.
Electric scale because it's more accurate. Wooden utensils yes agreed, plastic from utensils does break down in your food especially while cooking, high temps. Electric stoves are a lot healthier than gas, for yourself in the kitchen and for the environment/climate. Electric stoves got soooo much better in the last 15 years. Other than nostalgia, I don't see a reason to prefer gas nowadays. Glass for storage is the best, agreed.
-
I'm confused by the fuck/fight portion. Is it normal to want to fuck or fight every person who maintains eye contact? Have I been unknowingly threatening/coming into all of my work colleagues?
A lot of Zoomer/Alphagens have said in surveys that the perceive prolonged or maintained eye contact in a conversation as a sign of aggression or attraction. I was using hyperbolic language for brevity.
-
Anything invented before you turn 15 is just how the world works.
Anything invented between the ages of 15 and 30 is revolutionary and groundbreaking and you should pursue a career in it.
Anything invented after you turn 30 goes against the natural order of things.
At 39, this is becoming more and more accurate to me as time goes on. I remember telling some kid trying to pitch me TikTok when it first came out: "They brought back Vines?"
-
that's gonna need to be sourced.
is tiktok really exploiting phones to root them, then covertly installing itself "deep in your hardware"?
When you install TikTok, it fabricates its own independent SoC within your phone. Sometimes you can tell because the case bulges slightly, but it depends on the model.
This isn't strictly forbidden by Android and iOS APIs (yet), but there are limitations – this most notably affects the capacitors on the new SoC which degrade quickly and can make a faint clicking noise, hence the name "TikTok".
-
I'm turning 50 soon, and almost all of this hits close to home. Almost all. My media consumption is as it's always been: new books all the time. But also no TV, and I know all about a given movie from reading a few reviews, not actually watching it.
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a good read every now and again, but when I discovered indie films as a teenager I was hooked. Not to mention I was a classic "nerd" who liked comic books, Farscape, and BSG at a time before liking those things hit the mainstream.
-
Cast iron and stainless both work fine. Glass not at all.
Here's what you can do if you want to experiment without jumping in with both feet like I did:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KSNTSVR
You can get a single induction burner for a little more than $100.
Do you make a lot of stuff that involves boiling water? Tea? Noodles? Other pasta? These things boil a pot of water in 2 minutes. Not kidding.
Ohhh, that's tempting, and probably sufficient for my needs! Thanks for the heads up.
-
I'm always up to date on the grocery store sales in my area and when there's something especially good on sale I will show up at the store when it opens at 7:30.
“Good morning, sir! We open at 8am.”
-
For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I primarily write in cursive.
-
1870s that is
I don't know much about the populat music of that time. I guess leftover music of the civil war. No jazz influence yet - no tin pan alley. Traditional and folksy, still based on German and English folk. Irish trad (like O'Carolan) would be rising, especially in the cities. I think Captain O'Neill was assembling his collection around that time in Chicago. Jigs And reels. I know (and like) those tunes.
-
For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I like watching old British sitcoms.
Some would also say that enjoying a good traditional Anglican liturgy is another one
-
I don't download every new random chat app that's in vogue. I'll give you my phone number and we can text or talk without having to go through more 3rd parties besides the telephone companies we get service from. I hated needing a bajillion different text apps to talk to everyone I knew in the 2000s, I sure as hell ain't gonna start that shit up again 25 years down the road. Unless someone makes something like Trillian, fuck off with your WeChats and WhatsApp and Velcro or whatever the fuck.
Oh Trillian, that was such a good program. I loved changing the skin to fit my mood.
-
For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I love an early supper.
&
I putter in the garden.
