My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go. What’s yours?
Menus at restaurants are to be printed not via a QR code and a shitty website.
To be fair, telling people to scan QR codes with their phones is a huge phishing vector. I’ve seen a few places with new stickers over the first one, which is very easy to do. Is it an updated menu? Or a scam page for a session stealer?
☝️ this is it.
Related - I hate having that goddamned tablet at the table.
I’ll accept a tablet. But the first time it malfunctions, Miss Minimum Wage is standing at the table writing my order down on paper.
I’ll accept a tablet, but not that condescending attitude towards restaurant workers.
Honestly those big tablets they have in some fast food places like tim hortons are quite good because they let me see every item and order easily. Of course, that wouldn’t be a problem if they hadn’t replaced a normal menu with those dumbass tvs that switch off of what you’re trying to read every two seconds.
a shitty website
Or worse a PDF of the menu.
That is 500Mb+ because the ‘designer’ just stuffed the highest quality image in they could as a background on the whole thing
I’d be inclined to blame the restaurant for that one, the designer would normally be making it for print, in which case higher quality is better. If tthe restaurant wants a digital menu, they should ask for that.
I feel like this is probably common sense. The council of people over 20 have decided this months ago, and it should become law any minute now.
I FUCKING HATE QR CODE MENUS SO MUUUUCH!!!
If your wifi is bad or I just don’t want to wait to load a tiny goddamn webpage, I’m gone.
It’s really not hard to print a menu for a restaurant. The minimal amount of effort.
A date night is better when both leave their phones at home. Or at least away for the date.
This sucks.
I know a bar that does this but you can place orders for the table (your friends too and you can see their orders), call the waiter and pay the bill. I was impressed it was functional.
This is the most tech I want to see at the table:
- Call waiter - because if you snap your fingers I’m throwing something at you.
- I need the bill - because etiquette is different the world over
- Cancel request because buddy was being a dink and hit the button.
As a patron and as a former waiter, this is both the minimum and the maximum tech I want.
I’ve seen restaurant where you need to order on a smartphone. That’s just ridiculous
That’s just less tip for the server if I have to do their job for them.
I don’t mind the qr code thing if there are also paper menus available, but yeah.
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I don’t want to have to create an account for everything. Even when account creation was required in the past, it would be enough to have a username and password (sometimes email address). Now often times there are so many unnecessary mandatory fields.
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I like my devices and appliances to have one dedicated function and to do it well, without extra features, preferably available offline. Music is listened to on the mp3. The TV is only the display and never the content source.
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I still prefer in-person interactions, jobs, lessons, and shopping to online ones (but support having online options for those who prefer them).
I really don’t want to deal with two factor logins and email verification for an account that doesn’t have financial transactions.
On creating accounts everywhere, maybe it’s a GenX thing, but I just lie my arse off in all those extra fields. So many websites have my home address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500. I do wonder if it results in much extra junk mail for the processing faculty to deal with.
GenX here. I poison their data every chance I get.
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I prefer calling people to texting them.
But I also don’t like being called.
I guess those are my two wolves.
You’re a living personification of “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”
these aren’t mutually exclusive. you prefer communicating verbally, but don’t like being intruded upon. that’s fair.
now if you go and call people without warning… yeah there’s some irony lol
Yeah, I’m fully hypocritical in this regard. I’ll call people randomly “just to chat” with no notice haha.
Doesn’t that just mean you schedule calls over text? That step is not very boomer of you
Nah, I’ll call without warning “just to chat”… or because I get frustrated trying to make plans over text.
But I get anxious and/or annoyed when my own phone rings without warning, and might not even pick up haha.
I genuinely think you should be able to get a job interview by walking into a business and introducing yourself with a firm handshake
writing a billion versions of my resume with matching cover letters and manually inputting all the information already on my resume into individual application forms and then getting rejected by AI screening scripts is making me wish i was dead
I’d call that boomer-adjacent. You think you should be able to, but boomers believe you actually can.
It genuinely depends on what industry you are in. Every single job I’ve had has either been calling the companies in the area and letting them know I’m moving and want to have employment lined up before I move, or by calling a company and letting them know a shift in management has occurred and I’m looking to transition to a different company. The most I’ve had to do was email a resume, and if there’s an interview it’s a lunch interview that’s super casual.
Basically any trades based industry still operates that way, because most trades are still local businesses. When you get into the national or international businesses they streamline the humanity out of it.
I would absolutely consider hiring somebody who walked in with a smile and a resume. Hell, I’ve hired somebody who did that. (He turned out to be a turd, but that’s beside the point.)
However, I do a job that it seems like most lemmings wouldn’t be looking for.
Whats the job?
Not sure but it involves walking up to a stranger, spontaneously making conversation with them, handing over a sheet of paper full of your personal information and they being judged for how well you did which sounds about as anti-Lemmy as it gets.
Warehouse in a commercial/industrial industry.
In person interaction is infinitely superior to anything done online. “Meeting” people online just doesn’t hit the same, even with video calls.
I’m always amazed at how personal everything still is in Germany. When there was a problem with a tax form, I got a call from a guy at the tax office who gave me his name and number so I was able to call him back with any other problems. When I had to get insurance for my mother in law’s car, I got a call from my MIL’s insurance to discuss a discount. Referred to surgeon? Doctor called surgeon, made an appointment for later that day and every day for the rest of the week.
True but also I don’t need to be everyone’s best friend.
I work from home, I ain’t interested in being “hit” the same so just let me keep doing my own thing.
Online interactions register a tiny bit above screaming at the TV in socialisation scale.
I prefer buying stuff in stores rather than online. I need to see it physically before you scam me.
Edit: my back hurts
I avoid smart home type shit
Okay we need to talk about this because in my opinion this hasnt become a boomer opinion that, as proven over and over again, is just a better and smarter decision. Most of things that are “smart” dont need to be. Why does a fridge, toaster, TV, matress or oven need to be connected to the internet??! For what?!
Most of things that are “smart” dont need to be. Why does a fridge, toaster, TV, matress or oven need to be connected to the internet??! For what?!
I’ve recently seen an add stating that, big brand washing machine have WiFi, we have quality and low pricesbut indeed, it’s getting crazy, and what happens when you change ISP?
I do not know what happens during an ISP change, but i do know that during the recent amazon server outage, these smart appliances stopped working. There was a case where someone with a smart matress (yeah apperently that exists), couldnt sleep because the matress was launched into a weird W shape position and heated itself up.
Mattresses?! Yo, they need to stop lol
I disagree. Most of them are shit because they’re designed to serve the manufacturer, provide additional profit streams.
However there’s no reason they couldn’t provide useful functionality to the customer.
- it would be useful to receive fridge alerts if there was a problem
- it would be useful to receive a toaster alert on pop up, or on malfunction
- I really like using my phone as a tv remote, because I know where it is. I also like easy casting - I wish that wasn’t so broken. How did music manage to build something useful with Bluetooth streaming but the video equivalent has always been so broken?
- my oven is connected to the internet. It’s nice to be notified when it’s preheated and when the cooking is done. …… at the expense of the vendor portal and all it entails
- and yes I like to collect personal data, especially related to my health. If there were a private way to collect data from my mattress, I’d be Interested. You don’t have to be.
The most frustrating part is makers of smart appliances can save money by making them cheaper. Instead of a WiFi chip and vendor portal, just embed a dirt cheap Thread radio that simply exposes whatever is useful and let the customer take it from there, or not. Most smart appliances stuff people would find useful is monitoring and alerting, locally
So they would be useful to you if they were completely different?
I’m trying to make the point that smart devices aren’t inherently bad and can even be a good thing. However currently it’s just another way to exploit the customer. Maybe we’ll see more ethical implementation as these become mainstream. Maybe we’ll even see competition based on who implements smart devices ethically.
Oh man I’d love that level of optimism.
As someone who is all-in on smart home kit, I tend to agree. Everyone who visits my home loves how it all works, but I have a strict rule that nothing is connected to the Internet: it’s either a local protocol (ZigBee, Matter) or connected to a local-only VLAN and is orchestrated by Home Assistant. It’s increasingly difficult to recommend products to people starting out that don’t involve some vague cloud service that can’t be relied on, and most people don’t want to go from zero to Home Assistant.
Literally watched their “industry initiative” to make a standard that works with everybody’s phone and doesn’t brick devices, and only lightbulbs use it.
There’s at least one XKCD about this…
I miss physical buttons.
I hate cloud based services. I don’t want to be reliant on and send my data to someone else’s computer. Give me local control and local data storage or get off my grass!
Our security group says data can reside on a CLOUDACT-affected resource, and yet remain sovereign.
I hate these deluded wannabes.
I’ve actually begun DIYing a syncthing based mesh of my devices plus a NAS I’ll make from an old ThinkPad because honestly, fuck those cloud services.
I used to love the cloud, I saw it as really convenient, but now I just see it as a pretty ok way to back up all my old school work, plus OneDrive screaming at me to sign in, then automatically signing me in without asking…
Sure the DIY NAS I’m making is just an old ThinkPad 11e school laptop’s board and battery, and some USB to m.2 dongles, but it’ll be pretty damn good for a net cost of probably 100 bucks total
I hate that every facet of human existence is being monetized.
You must have a very left-leaning sample of boomers.
I don’t like “smart” features, I hate being forced to create accounts for everything, I want my data to only be local, I loathe smileys, I’d much rather talk to you face to face, I don’t know wtf is an app and why yours is just a wrapper to your webpage, pure html pages with terrible colour choices are fucking class, I say “hacker” to mean “hacker” and not “cracker”, I still don’t understand the success of tablets, and you look like a dick with your mini doomscroll machine on your wrist.
EDIT: fixing rage induced typos
Agree with everything here, plus I miss cars coming in a wide variety of colors instead of just inoffensive earthy and silver tones.
I don’t use tiktok, instagram, and I deleted facebook, it’s all targeted advertising slop. My “friends” on facebook didn’t interact with me, they interacted with my posts. I made a post stating I was going to delete facebook on X date, and if anyone wanted my contact information they should reach out before then. 1 person reached out to keep in touch. I refuse to download apps on my phone. I already have an internet browser on the phone; one app to rule them all. Why do I need a fucking app for what I can do on your webpage? I switched to linux because both apple and windows are in a race to see who can be the shittiest walled garden that invades your privacy and steals your data, so yeah, I’m still very much, don’t trust strangers on the internet, including corporations. No I will not give you my information to get a discount or bullshit rewards points. I’ll pay full price, my data is worth way more than your paltry discounts.
Same. I will have no phone before I upload my face to verify access to a website, or before I delete my VPN. I will download Wikipedia and go live offline in a hut, idgaf.
I’m with you.
…i expect institutions to protect me…i call my representative and senators and get platitudes…i keep calling…
I don’t know why I bother doing this, it just gets me signed up to their idiotic mailing list. Hooray democracy
The kids’ new slang is fucking stupid. My son last night was excited about his skills in the game he was playing and told me he was " cracked " … cracked?
Man, like, I know we used " bad " to mean good, but come on. Cracked? Cracked is a crazy person. Cracked is how we pirated computer games. Cracked is your engine block after you poured cold water in an overheated car.
This is even stupider than " crashing out " meaning you threw a temper tantrum instead of falling asleep after an up all night acid trip.
I fucking hate it.
I swear gen-z just doesn’t know what certain things mean so they just make up a meaning on the fly.
It’s like they speak AI hallucination.
Bro you’re cooked.
So is crack
Actually I just remembered that, even some 20 years ago (possibly more) in France, we used to describe OP characters in videogames as “craqués”, which could mean “broken” or “cracked”, so I was not weirded out by this one, as the meaning is similar enough.
I wonder how “cracked” came to be and whether this is one of the only contemporary instance where some French slang may have influenced the English one somehow? Probably just a coincidence.
One day as I was leaving for work, my penultimate daughter said “mom, that fit shreds” and I was like, excuse me, WHAT did you call me?
“Your clothes are great!”
My outfit, it shreds. Apparently.
I don’t hate it but don’t remember being very slangy as a teenager.
Shreds is what Kerry King does on the guitar.
But “shreds” literally means clothes.
Back in my day when we were leet and pwned noobs, it was gg.
Eh, slang was always dumb and obscure. That’s the point, isn’t it?
Yes, but really no. IDK. I’m not claiming to be right, just giving my opinions.
Edit: I was his age in the 80s.
Lemme axe you why you rizzed bruh or you cooked i cant even thirsty
I refuse to use overly smart devices. Yes, I have a few zigbee light switches and thermostats that are controlled by a local HomeAssistant installation but why would I want to by my fridge, dishwasher and toothbrush to be connected to the internet?
“turns out smart toilet camera is not end to end encrypted after all.”
Yea, I don’t understand why you need/ want an app for your toothbrush.
That’s not a boomer thing. That’s just common sense.
