“Create an account to continue” being considered normal for everything.
They’re so certain they even dropped the “please” at this point.
Also you need an app for even the most basic things
Yeah, app-gating is something I struggle against.
App-controlled appliances are absolutely one of my pet peeves. I would much rather prefer an analog knob.
We still have zero app-controlled (or internet-capable) appliances and I hope to keep it that way forever… though I’m starting to worry that maybe in the future we won’t have much choice.
Yeah, I still opt for the ‘lower-cost’ options when buying appliances. There is always the used market, so by the time I must but one I’ll probably have a strategy ready to go.
Maybe I’ll have an old phone I’ll put on a separate vlan WiFi with a special account just for that. A service account, if you will.
There were plenty of “log-in to view this image/link” back then. Some forums still do that abuse.
I fucking hate forums that do this shit.
Everything constantly getting worse at an accelerating rate.
Like I’ve not been hopeful since about 2006
Literally everything that punk and grunge tried to warn us about in the 80s and 90s regarding corporatism becoming reality and everyone being okay with it as long as they have shiny new toys to play with every year.
Using a phone exclusively.
I don’t get how people will do all of their business on a tiny phone. Like anything that needs more then a few sentences of typing, I’ll go to my computer to do instead, same with filling out forms.
Same goes for phone gaming. Touch controls are always ass.
Same.
I do find myself using my phone a lot more than I used to - all my Lemmy activity is on my phone, and most of my messaging is too. Those are things it’s very convenient to have in my pocket. But I could not survive without a laptop.
Any sort of actual task, be that shopping, banking, research or general browsing, is all far better there.
Trying to do anything involved, like compare and buy car insurance on my phone, feels utterly crippling - as if I’m operating at 20% efficiency, and I can feel my fingers burning with frustration at how much quicker I’d be with a keyboard, trackpad, and decent multitasking.
Big purchases require big screen. I have spoken.
Anything over 50-100€ is not getting bought in a phone.
Normies on the internet.
It used to be exclusively nerds, geeks, freaks, and weirdos.
I miss those days 😮💨
Kent feels like those now.
Normies
Internet
Hmmm. Dude, seriously. No. This question here is what non normal people ask.
People using their actual fucking name on the internet.
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The fanatical rise of facism, racism and mysoginy
I keep getting pulled back to the manic street preachers song, if you tolerate this, your children will be next
Not exactly new
People in this thread are answering the picture of a reddit post…
Yeah it’s supposed to be sarcastic responses only. I was coming here to say “My age, apparently.”
Nothing. I’m thirty, not retarded.
LOL! I know the feeling. Am 61 and no “modern” things phase me.
I’m no longer friends with MySpace Tom.
Yeah, fuck that smug bastard off living his best life travelling round the world taking photos after extracting a ton of money from Rupert Murdoch.
Nothing, who do you think taught them how to do it?
I mean the question stings a little but ultimately times have changed quite a bit since the 90s. And I’m 30 so that’s all my last century reference. Genuinely one I didn’t expect is so much stuff like fashion, music and whatnot from my childhood being this popular among today’s teenagers. Also people used to be more considerate using public transport. Listening to music on speaker was almost unheard of and now it happens all the time around me. Oh and restaurants with qr code only menus can piss right off.
Genuinely one I didn’t expect is so much stuff like fashion, music and whatnot from my childhood being this popular among today’s teenagers.
The resurgence of the mullet is simply not acceptable. It was terrible then, it is terrible now. You look like a moron.
What in the FUCK is with the lack of basic consideration for others not wanting to hear your phone on public transit?!
The thing about the music on transit is half the time it’s people older than me (30s and up). Which means it’s not a generational thing, these people were always out there.
As for QR codes, I think there are use cases, though they are often poorly implemented. QR code ONLY I agree is insanity
Especially once you consider how easy it is to create and print your own QR codes to link to fucking anything and put them in public.
Direct attack vector that people will click without a thought - or for the general public no idea of the potential risk even present.
Im sure there are plenty of people who would be like 'no im not stupid enough to click this random link from an email claiming to be a service provider or something, but would happily whip their phone out to order another round of drinks from the code on their bar table.I keep telling my family this whenever they say the QR code menus are ‘fancy’
No, they are not. They are method of saving money on updating print menus. They are also gathering user data when you open the menu and the website has a cookie pop-up. The QR code menu is a cheapening of provided service, invasion of privacy, and a security vulnerability for - you guessed it - only the customers.
Economy.
Oh, no…I’m old…
