What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years

    • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      I doubt you’ll find anyone here that disagrees with you. I was going to get an older pixel but I got a 6 instead and I’m still grieving the loss of my headphone jack.

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          2 years ago

          But then you can’t charge at the same time, no good if you want to plug your phone into some speakers and charge it at the same time

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              2 years ago

              My take: cables are a sustainable, effective and ELEGANT solution. Most wireless solutions fall under the definition of over-engineering.

              Cable: a properly lengthened cheap rope that magically transfers information, power and anchor stuff together.

              Wireless: two antenna, encoding of all kind, radiations, BATTERIES, higher chance to lose stuff, degrading of quality (Bluetooth).

  • Elbullazul@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Cars shouldn’t be loaded with user-facing technology. Bring back analog dashboards and buttons for climate control!

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      2 years ago

      Bring back stick-shift, too. People shouldn’t be driving if they have no grasp of the mass and inertia of their car. We should be able to disengage the engine at will. And we should have to pay attention when we drive.

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    2 years ago

    I’m not subscribing to anything. If I buy something, it’s fully functional, and it’s mine. There is no ongoing relationship between me and the manufacturer. Done.

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    2 years ago

    Smart tech in general is annoying and dumb. I want my TV to just be a tv with inputs, I don’t need built in firmware and updates to shove ads in my face. I don’t want my car to have a touch screen to adjust the A/C, just give me a knob or buttons.

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    2 years ago

    Music in restaurants and bars is just too loud. I know why the music is loud, but I am still going to shake my fist at it like Grandpa Simpson.

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      2 years ago

      Same. It’s getting worse over time too, I can hardly hear anything anyone is saying in restaurants and bars anymore.

      I felt my inner boomer grow stronger after writing that.

      • Mr_Grumpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Many of the younger generations seem to accept that things don’t last/break easily. I come from a time where there was a wiring diagram for the TV pasted on the inside back cover. Washing machines and other devices often had the schematics included. Repairing your stuff and keeping it running was the norm back then. Even if you couldn’t, you probably had a neighbour who could. Planned obsolescence is a relatively new thing.

      • emerty@slrpnk.net
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        2 years ago

        Things used to be made like this. Only boomers are old enough to remember buying an iron for life.

  • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    Algorithms that try to suggest me content are universally bad, and all searches should provide results based solely on the terms, syntax, and language entered. Same with anything that tries to provide me content based on data harvested about my location or demographic.

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      2 years ago

      I used to be mad at algorythms suggesting things that is disliked. But then I realised that it would be rather scary if they were right.

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      2 years ago

      I think it has its place but it should absolutely be optional. Yeah they suck but the YouTube algorithm is responsible for like 70% of my knowledge base.

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        2 years ago

        I miss accidentally finding the most random stuff on YouTube way back before they started pushing monetized content, but it’s been a very long time

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      2 years ago

      I like that Lemmy and Masto don’t have those fucking algorithms. It’s a relief.

      • StoicLime@lemmy.ml
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        What is your opinion on Bluesky? Their default feed is chronological, but they do have algorithms. They’re actually moving towards custom algorithms, so you can build your own or use someone else’s, delete, pin, reorder them. It’s like different feeds. I like that implementation personally.

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      Never have I ever benefited from Google or Amazon or anyone changing my search string for me. Even if I do misspell something, I’m gonna click on the “did you mean x instead?” link myself, because I don’t trust the 50/50 mixed results anyway. But 90% of the time I’m gonna be immediately scrambling to put the double quotes back in, which it’s also gonna ignore half the time.

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        Hard agree. Sometimes I’m searching for something very specific and esoteric, and the results spam me with unrelated nonsense because the search engine thinks it knows better than I do

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    2 years ago

    Phone bad.

    Like they’re objectively pretty useful but I find the experience of using one to just kinda suck and I avoid it as much as I can. I’d much much rather use a laptop or ideally my desktop if that’s at all possible. No idea how some people manage so much time using their phones

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    When I was a kid, I could go out and play with other kids on the streets, without fear of being snatched or hit by a car or worse. We made Judas ragdolls before Easter just to burn them, and use them for practical jokes. We used to play some child version of cricket, I’ve even broke a window of a neighbour doing it.

    Children nowadays do not do any of those things dammit. What the fuck? How exactly are you growing up without leaving home? For some it’s lack of desire, but for most of them it’s outright lack of possibility.

    Screw this shit. The world is becoming worse.

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    I don’t want to have a subscription for everything. It used to be possible to pay a one-time fee for software and use it as long as I want. Now I have to pay a monthly fee and once I finish paying, I can’t use the software anymore. And it’s not like I constantly get updates for the software. Often it stays the same for months or years.

    I understand that software has a price, but no way these prices are sometimes justified…

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    2 years ago

    let me see:

    • physical media is Just Better (cds, game cards, etc.)
    • the Internet is a technological dumpster fire
    • devices are too “smart” nowadays
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      1 year ago

      Physical media generally has less aggressive DRM. Buy a DVD and the movies your’s for life, you can even rip it and put it on a media server to make your own little streaming site.

      “Buy” a movie/audiobook on Amazon and it’s yours as long as the company wants you to keep it.

      As always, there is an relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/488/

    • elrac@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I bought a gas stove/oven a few months ago. Took me a couple of weeks to notice that I can connect it to my wifi for some reason. I haven’t, and don’t intend to, but I am a little curious what features could possibly be in there.

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        2 years ago

        it’s probably something like remote control, which is handy but ultimately not worth it imo

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    2 years ago

    You should be able to repair your own things, without too much money and effort