What's your 'old person' trait?
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Complaining most music sucks and sounds the same nowadays. The 90s had the best music.
70s. Maybe some 80s, too.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
Suspenders for my pants. They are really life-changing. The usual rotund American male over-60 physique leaves no purchase to hold up pants without constant attention.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I scowl and scoff at randos that park on my street or longer in front of my house.
Tools and furniture are exciting!
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I enjoy carbonated water, my friends say it's a weird old person thing
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You mean, like, other than twice my age being statistically dead?
Many.
Let's start with neo-Luddite tendencies, e.g. deep suspicion of, and wanting very little to do with: devices with planned obsolescence; devices that basically spy on the user; this push for LLMs and similar generative artificial "intelligence".
Or rather, the people who are pulling the strings, so to speak, behind those technologies. The technologies themselves have great potential, but that cannot be reached under those who presently control them.
Also a strong dislike of people, usually kids, making noise or worse, actually being on my property because they have no respect for certain boundaries, or they don't even know those boundaries exist. Classic "damn kids, get off my lawn" old man attitude.
And finally: I still have a flip-phone and have no other computing devices beyond the one desktop PC I'm writing this comment from.
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If you haven't tried Cornell's "Merlin" app, I highly recommend it.
Bird watching is peaceful. I love it.
That app is awesome!
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I enjoy carbonated water, my friends say it's a weird old person thing
Add a splash of lime and a salted rim to make suero.
Add lime with muddled mint for fauxjitos.
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I would think so. Given how obsessed people have become with AI and how pretty much everyone and their mother has ingrained themselves with AI. It's harder to find someone who doesn't use it at all than those who do. I hate it and everything that comes with it.
Gen Z here. I think you'd be surprised to find that gen z generally hates ai slop. Specifically the slop, most people are ok with some AI use.
For llms It's seen the same way I imagine search engines were (I was born after Google existed). People can just find an answer for their problem instead of searching for it in a book or asking someone. This can either be amazing for learning new things, or for cheating. My professors even tell me to USE ai to learn, just know how to actually use it to help learn rather than get the correct answer and be done with it.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I look out the window to see what's going on down the street and who the hell is on my lawn
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Most of my friends don’t even have my phone number, let alone a messaging service. We do postal mail or just go to each other’s houses. I mail out about twenty letters a week and get that much back, on nice stationery.
It’s good to feel loved.
that's awesome but my God my ADHD ass could not wait weeks for a response
id leave them on read for like 4 months because I can't find a stamp or something and forgot about it -
The streak of white in my beard?
The fact that 75% of my media consumption is things I've already seen before?
I can maintain eye contact in a conversation and at no point do I want to fuck/fight the other person nor do I believe they want to fuck/fight me?
I can maintain friendships with people who do not share all of my views on things, with a select view even having opposing views?
Comfort wins over style every time, with zero exceptions?
Why is every sentence a question? This comes off as defensive.
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No, I do not have whatever stupidly named money transfer app you're using this week, and no, I will not install it.
Honestly when Bitcoin was new I had hope that we’d all switch to that. I’d still prefer it to the slow-ass (US) banking system (*cough* NACHA) but now it has an entirely different reputation.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I get up earlier on weekends than weekdays. I try to get up at 6am but I often get up to pee at 4am and just stay up. I do a bunch of things and it feels like I've had a good day then I realize it's only like 10am and I still have a whole day ahead of me.
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Literally everything i do. Im not even old but I could keep a conversation going with a 60 year old easily.
Old cars, reel to reels, vhs, win 95, atari 2600, pentium 3s, 50s music, records and vintage amplifiers and speakers..dos commands..the list goes on
That and I hate social media (i realize lemmy is social media) and my smartphone stays off on weekends. I prefer books.
Nah you hate mainstream social media, you're a hipster like the rest of us XD
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
never self checkout.. unless 18+ items are involved.
other than that or stealing literally no cashier will care or even remember you.source: am cashier at grocery store
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if it helps people like me have a 50% suicide attempt rate by my age
..I'm 18
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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.
These days I only go on facebook for marketplace and a few community groups.
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Is this an old person trait? Consider me a curmudgeon then.
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.
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Why is every sentence a question? This comes off as defensive.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's more of a take your pick as to which of those is my "old" trait.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Some part of my body always hurts. Mostly back, intestines, and joints, but these feet of mine have been finding their footing in this game lately too. Life is pain ;(
