What's your 'old person' trait?
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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]Yep, I am like this too.
How do you effectively promote spyware?
Make it addictive like a drug, make it a core element of common culture, and most importantly, make it have some kind of socializing network effect that generates a knee jerk disgust in normies when anyone dares to question its widespread and regular use.
It is extremely funny to me when someone asks me to install say discord or insta or whatsapp, and I say I don't use them for security and privacy reasons...
Then I ask them to install signal, and they say 'I'm not going to install a whole app just for you.'
Apparently entirely unaware of, oblivious that they literally just asked me to do that.
whooooosh
Then they get angry and begin to babble on about some kind of idiot nonsense about how either I don't know how to do digital security or how its just impossible so why try, or both.
If I mention that I literally did handle PII in corporate databases and thus do actually understand a decent chunk of cybersecurity...
They tend to become emotional and defensive.
Try to explain anything in detail to them and they have a bunch of sophomoric / dunning krueger instant retorts and thought terminating cliches, because they don't want to listen or possibly learn anything, they want to justify their digital drug addiction.
Oh well, works as an idiot filter for me.
Suffer no fools.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I have opinions on my lawn and your proximity to it.
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Oh no. I worked so hard to be able to maintain eye contact in conversations (autistic) and now I'm questioning it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Its almost like neurotypicals just think they know what 'normal' body language is, when in actuality they all disagree about almost all of it, each have their own plethora of weird quirks and ideas, and its just that they assume their standard is correct, because they hardly ever consciously, actively think about or analyze body language.
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Personally, maintaining eye contact during a conversation shows me that you're actively paying attention and processing what I'm saying. I mean you might not actually be doing that, but I at least feel you are. And it's a good sign. When I have some Alpha at work explain that bit about how their generation views that level of eye contact I audibly scoffed.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah thats big 'old man yells at clouds' vibes.
Its not me that could be wrong, no, its the children.
Kids have different body language norms than me?
Pff, that's stupid, my illogical feelings and inaccurate, non-universal heuristics are what's important here.
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I love shoehorns and sneeze loudly.
Didn't realise these were old person traits but then these are also mine.
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If you haven't tried Cornell's "Merlin" app, I highly recommend it.
Bird watching is peaceful. I love it.
I love that app so much. My Amseln and Kohlmeisen are so sweet.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
Arthritis, so I can predict rain with my knees.
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CatB40 and Pinephone
I think I know the next phone I'm buying. Thanks for this!
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
My age
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
If it isn't done by 10:00 am then it isn't getting done.
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70+ and mine is playing world of warcraft.
How is the WoW community these days? I played A LOT back in the day but stopped about 8 years ago. Have you played for a while? It crosses my mind every so often, just curious.
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I like to go to bed at 9/10 and wake up at 4/6
The older I get the earlier my bedtime/alarm gets.
My old person trait is my knees.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I'm ready for the sweet embrace of eternal slumber.
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I primarily write in cursive.
Other people don't? Why are other people writing like children?
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Arthritis, so I can predict rain with my knees.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I have several joint damaging injuries. I've broken my ankle, torn the cartilage in my knee, and dislocated my shoulder fourteen times - and not only are those only the joint injuries, but only those that have required surgery.
Last year, during a change of seasons, I was visiting a local diner for a takeout order and asked if they minded if I sat down to wait for my order, explaining that I was a damaged individual. They, of course, acquiesced, but then the owner of the venue asked if I noticed more pain during inclement weather.
That was the first time over about thirty years of owies that I realized my pain might be correlated with barometric pressure.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
Antiques Roadshow is absolutely amazing. It's fascinating to see some of the old things people happen to have.
Anyways, I'm at the point where I'm rewatching a bunch of old shows and cartoons I watched growing up, either through reruns or actually seeing. Mostly reruns, like how I'm currently on season 1 of The Golden Girls, a show I second hand absorbed to the point it's one of my all time favorite live action shows period. I hope when I get old I can be a male version of Sophia.
Also, I don't need a "smart" TV. If it can handle HDMI cables, that's good enough for me. I've been thinking if I ever have to upgrade monitors or get my own "smart" TV, that I'll purposefully break warranty to crack it open to remove any form of camera/microphone and remove anything that allows the device to connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi, or cellular data, or whatever else there is.
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Antiques Roadshow is absolutely amazing. It's fascinating to see some of the old things people happen to have.
Anyways, I'm at the point where I'm rewatching a bunch of old shows and cartoons I watched growing up, either through reruns or actually seeing. Mostly reruns, like how I'm currently on season 1 of The Golden Girls, a show I second hand absorbed to the point it's one of my all time favorite live action shows period. I hope when I get old I can be a male version of Sophia.
Also, I don't need a "smart" TV. If it can handle HDMI cables, that's good enough for me. I've been thinking if I ever have to upgrade monitors or get my own "smart" TV, that I'll purposefully break warranty to crack it open to remove any form of camera/microphone and remove anything that allows the device to connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi, or cellular data, or whatever else there is.
How it’s Made.
And get off my lawn.
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How it’s Made.
And get off my lawn.
I don't know if they still make episodes of How It's Made, but that show was amazing. Sure some things, like their episode on computers, are definitely outdated, but it's still a cool thing to see regardless.
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How is the WoW community these days? I played A LOT back in the day but stopped about 8 years ago. Have you played for a while? It crosses my mind every so often, just curious.
I played in the same guild since before 2010 and we did up to HC raids and some M+. After the previous expansion it sort of began to fall asleep and I have mostly been playing tier 11 delves solo and story content, and some random groups, since then. I play almost every day when I'm not on FFXIV. Have some 24000h logged so I guess I think it's fun still
I can't say much about the community as a whole. I can see in forums that some people are having issues, but I have generally met very nice people.
