Definitely feel this way about news consumption because, like, so many people only read the news stories they see in their feed, and then complain about how "the media" isn't covering a story... that they absolutely did cover.
Multiple times in the last 24 kids have told me, “well if there’s trash in your FB or TT feed, it says something about YOU 👇”
And like, no, it says what a Zuckbot *wants* me to be, to maximize its revenue potential.
Funny, I wanted to post “what’s the deal with this Facebook algorithm. It’s soooo bad right?” And thought I was going to be the only one complaining about algorithms because I usually am.
Home is basically just a bunch of random posts the algorithm spits out. Heaven forbid you want to actually see your friends or groups content as function of the site.
Cancelled Spotify because of it. It was ruining my love of music. And it's sad because for a moment they seemed to get the balance right where I could listen to stuff I knew and discover new things but it was an ouroboros by the end where I could accurately predict what songs would autoplay next.
Yeah, I'm big on physical media. Going to consider buying CDs again. You can run your own music streaming server too if you rip them. Not as convenient but...
The worst part is Spotify had it absolutely nailed. It knew what I liked. Now, every week the discover list are 100% made of skips. If there was any I in AI it should have gotten the hint by now.
That is not shocking but completely disgusting. I wondered about that sometimes on Spotify. Like, when you look at an artist profile and it doesn't add it.
I make most of my music discoveries by listening to streaming BBC Radio (Radio 6, is my preferred station, FWIW, but I suspect there’s a station to cater to other tastes) and a podcast. I always found Spotify and similar services a little exasperating.
I was joking that I'd never sing up to Tidal after they did that PR stunt with Madonna and Daft Punk. Pure cringe. I'll keep them in mind though. I tried Apple Music and it didn't work out.
I didn't know she had anything to do with the program, honestly. I bounced between quite a few services and decided Tidal was the best for me, as they pay the artists the most and also have a $5 student plan. They don't have as many albums as I'd like, but it's enough for car and subway rides.
Google Play Music was fantastic - let you upload like 25k of your own music, and the recommendation machine was more hit than miss. Then they merged it into YouTube and sucked all the joy out of it.
And iTunes made me unable to listen to music I bought and uploaded as I moved to new computers, saying I no longer had the right. I mean WTF? I bought the damned CDs, uploaded them and then gave them away. Apple stole my music
My biggest issue with spotify is the people that somehow upload fake songs on other artists' profiles.
Like i got a notification from spoofy that KRS-One dropped a new single, but it turns out to be a completely unrelated ai generated ambient techno song???
I would pay $$$$$ to get rid these stupid algorithms out of my life for good, they do not benefit me, or give anything I want, or match what I think they just complicate my life
It’s also something we can never have again because all the websites have been SEO optimized in such a way that it will never be possible to have something simple like that again
What made Google special was PageRank. It was a complete sea change in how search algorithms worked and ranked search results which directly resulted in more users getting better results from searches and people flocked to Google Search.
https://kagi.com - Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user. I’m ok with some ads just no algorithm - free me from the zombie algorithms please!
What about sites that would let you tweak your own algorithm? Like, it would try to figure things out for you, but you could move sliders or weights around and add/remove tags, etc. to remove mistakes, etc.?
Just got a new (replacement) “garbage” disposal for my one kitchen. I keep getting “targeted” emails about buying more disposals.
I have my full complement now, thank you.
In 2012, this tweet was about room-sized area rugs. Two is sufficient, I don’t own a castle, k-thx
Why is this still happening?
I went to see a Broadway show back in October, and immediately after and ever since then I've been getting ads for *the exact same Broadway show*. Just ass backwards marketing.
It reminds me of the Lewis Black bit about a certain famous coffee brand opening a new shop right across the street from another *same brand* of coffee shop being perfect for people with memory disorders 🙃
Supposedly, thinking the thought “No thank you, I just bought a garbage disposal!” makes you feel satisfied with your purchase, which makes you feel good about online shopping, which inclines you to do it again.
I mean, it's that or it's just advertisers taking every possible opportunity to advertise and a bunch of tech bros selling them a line on using user data.
I just bought a chaise lounge a store, so I'm set for a good decade, so stop sending me emails about chaise lounges. Maybe a cute side table? Or floor lamp? Throw pillow? Getting targeting marketing for SHIT I JUST PURCHASED makes me never want to shop at that place EVER AGAIN
I kind of want 4 channels of TV watch whats on just let it run unless it bores you and you can check the others I saw this the other day and I wanted one so bad https://youtu.be/k_BkD85yIg0?si=LUBlfhE_9qZhFdk2
Happy to learn I am not alone. We used to have an amazing eclectic radio station that filled the gap but that changed formats to sh*tty 90s R&B (they don't seem to have discovered good R&B yet) so now I'm left feeling every day of my 50 years and confused by my Grand's music.
People who want archive sites like AO3 to have an algorithm make me angry.
It's a fanfiction archive, which is more akin to a library than a site like tiktok.
I have training on how to search, and searching for academic articles on specific medical topics is part of my job. The search result enshittification over the past couple years (including in pubmed) is SIGNIFICANT.
This is my sister's superpower. She knows how to frame a search, and re-frame, and narrow as needed to find the right result. She's a librarian for an office of an international law firm and they pay her pretty well for her skill.
I'm still seeing ads for wedding rings despite the fact I stopped looking back in May. As soon as I started looking I was born.barded with ads for jewelry websites, Manly Bands, etc... it still hasn't stopped.
In the meantime platforms relying strongly on search based navigation are bleeding, this is actually the people's choice and if I am 100% anti brainwashing algorithm. I believe people kinda like this ability to turn off their brain and let a machine entertain them at a level near unconsciousness
Honestly, I like it when YouTube recommends me weird videos of the type I already like to watch, that are also good. But I would trade that to be rid of other algorithm woes. I found weird videos I like before they started algorithming everything up, and I can do it again.
It's a tragedy that Apple's whole reverse-tech-Reformation thing resulted in only a very small generational window of people who understand how computers Work and how to Fix Them
At 40, I learned computers from my dad growing up, and at 40 I look at my niece and nephew who don't know how to use a computer at all except for a phone, tablet, cloud, and gaming interfaces that take care of all that for them. Our age range is permanent helpdesk for the world.
99% of everyone is bad at 99% of everything, including you (probably), and me (definitely). You and I know stuff about computers, but think about the things you DON'T know stuff about.
When I was running IT at a small consulting company and my team got a little snotty about the things that the folks we supported didn't know about computers, I had to remind them that a great many of them had PhDs. In things like math and quantum physics. Expertise is narrow.
It’s less not knowing all the ins and outs and more that they surrender when faced with any friction, or don’t look for better ways to use the tools they work with every day. I’m not an IT guy I work with a lot of people who won’t even look for a tutorial on something that’s giving them issues
That's fine, but the job was user support and services. In the grand scheme of things, them researching the tools they were using to come up with a solution means they weren't doing their jobs and we weren't doing ours, which seems inefficient. It's the snottiness from my folks about it that was bad
and it’s very age specific. Either people who grew up where computers took a lot of user work to even understand, or who grew up when computers would take care of most things for you invisibly.
If all the people 10 years older than you are bad with computers, you either work with non-tech people or you work with idiots.
Mid-forties to early-fifties should be peak "can figure out computer problems" age. We're the ones who came of age before USB and Windows XP standardized everything.
Baggy ass clown jeans are goofy and the middle part is an abomination, except curtain bangs BUT that's a Victorian throwback haircut and thus only works if you wanna be super old timely or Goth. Curtain bangs look really fucking weird when they're on modern preppy ppl and not a goth or twee person
Also every multiplayer Hero Shooter that came after TF2 fucking sucks, and not every single player game needs to be a big open world deal, especially when it's the game loop is just a pointless task-a-thon set in a boring world that doesn't get what ppl like about open world games in the first place
Expanding that last point, "AAAA" are a fucking scam. Just because a game has a huge amount of content doesn't mean it's at all replayable. Some of the most replayable games I've played don't even have that much content, they're just good enough to go back to go back to
AND ON THAT SUBJECT- i hate the MCU and all other modern mainstream art that was made in a goddamn lab based on data metrics that mean nothing by neo-liberals who don't know anything about art or, quite frankly, business without your companies into the ground
Regarding that last part, I miss when most Ubisoft games weren't the same tired formula of "FarCry-esque open world stealth action with crafting and collectibles"!
Xennial agreeing with this. Greys Anatomy appointment watching with a zillion episodes a season. Give us back our character development and long storylines!
as a geriatric millenial i grew up on saturday morning cartoons and tv shows that got a few dozen eps a season. it can definitely be a millenial complaint.
Television shows should come out once a week, not the whole season all at once. And not everything has to be serialized. I miss episodic shows that had no ongoing story across the entire season.
True! Whilst I still prefer shows with more long running plots that feel like they matter. I loved the fuck out of ghost in shell stand alone complex and some of its best episodes had NOTHING to do with the plot
I think we got more shorter stories with shorter episodes than longer less story too
I should clarify with that last part. That you get more plot threads and stories cuz they wouldn't spend as long on singular ones that drag across multiple episodes as much like in modern TV dramas.
Not to say that we also didn't have slow burn stories but it defo felt less common.
My home TV has a power button (thank jeebus), but work has a bigger, fancier TV that we use for conference calls and presentations, and my investigation concluded that it has no power button...
Yes, thank you, exactly what I want the omni-button to do is open a menu to adjust the brightness and other settings. Why would I want a single button to turn the thing off?
Omg when the app freezes the whole TV and you have to get up and turn off at powerpoint because thats only way to turn it off. But then sleep mode lets that microphone you never use to spy on you all day long right?
We still have a dumb TV from like 2016 at home, but the Chromecast (from like 2014!) finally bit the dust so I got a new one (since the TV is fairly useless to us without it). And now it's this whole Google TV thing with profiles? I miss the simplicity of "cast to TV from phone or laptop" 🥲
I still have an old one that I am also dreading the demise of, especially since I think they aren't going to make new ones anymore, but a friend gave me their newer one when they got a smart TV and it's awful and I'm not using it.
1. There are people who post how-to's to make smart TV's dumb.
2. Using a kill-a-watt or a outlet switch can help with the power issue. EVERYTHING is on standby these days. I hear ya!
I called a place to order a sandwich the other day. The person told me I had to order through an app... i'm thinking: I'm literally talking to you right now, it's a very simple order
Bruh i had a package go missing a few months ago and i called my local post office to try and find out anything about it. There was legit no way to talk to a human on the phone. I tried different options. Nothing. Felt like i was losing my mind
One of the major ISPs here has a bot picking up the phone. At the beginning one had to swear uninterrupted for a minute to get to a real human. I don't like to swear, but I had to. They made it better but still.
The pivot to video ruined our ability to find information on the internet. I used to be able to find a written document I could ctrl F to find what I need. Now I have to watch a 45 minute video with 10 ads to get it
This broke my brain a little. The steps to turn an outline into a short article are far fewer than taking that same outline and filming and editing a video.
But that's not taking into account the algorithm you have to pass through to even see it at all, which makes video seem "easier"
Depends on how much info you want - if your “start your day” instructions are something like ‘wake up, get dressed, leave the house”, you’ve ignored all the micro decisions that get made in between. A really good user story goes right down into “left foot on the 🧵
ground first, then right foot” level of detail…nobody wanting to learn how to do a new thing quickly is going to want to wade through all that verbiage.
On one hand you are right, but on the other hand, just talking and articulating an idea comes surprisingly more naturaly than writing a short article. Coupled with hired editors or minimal editing (like podcast or similar format), it's easier than it seems.
I mean, anything is technically easier if you can hire someone else to do it. Even more to the crux of the matter, a video editor can't fix omissions, errors, and inaccuracies: they can only cut or ask for reshoots. At which point you'd save a whole lot of effort by hiring a copy editor instead.
I’d argue most people can’t produce a concise, quality video either, especially when platforms reward minutes watched. They’re incentivized to drag everything out forever.
Honestly this is such a huge issue for me. I don't want a fucking video. I want a fucking written document. And I HATE that most information is now in video or podcast form.
Enshittification is real. I also am a reader not a watcher of info & instructions & it’s much harder to find that now. I don’t want to watch a video of how to assemble or repair something—it won’t stick with me.
Exactly! I need to refer back to something while I’m working. The long form video on grouting is an hour long but I need the 30 second clip of how they clean the nozzle
NB, if you don’t think Clinton, Blair and everyone in opposition to them up until about 2010 - weren’t brighter/less ideologically driven than the current lot - I have a bridge I’d like to sell you.
(No, they weren’t perfect. But they weren’t achingly stupid, and were pragmatists).
My 14 yr old son ask me yesterday “wouldn’t it be better if we let experts who like… studied this stuff make the policy for it” 🥹🥹🥹 sweet baby that’s how it USED TO BE
This is so true on Amazon Prime shows and movies.
I think they do it so they do not have to pay for sets, just film it dark, viola! look how much money they save not having to make a set.
I refuse, I don't are how highly it is recommended, if it is dark, shot in low light I turn it off.
Sometimes the dark doesn’t make any sense. I don’t get why the morgue scene in a crime drama should be so dark the coroner can’t see their hands in front of their face. Quincy worked w/the lights on.
Movies became darker at the same time that cgi was being integrated into everything. Cgi used to be used only when it was too difficult to make a practical prop/effect, now most use cgi for scenery, background layering, overlays. Making everything dark makes the use of those effects more believable.
Not to mention whatever they've done to the audio mixing. The amount of times I have to skip back and put on subtitles to figure out what someone was saying...
Here in Chicago it is because the Mayor in 2008 sold the parking meters to investors! So now parking is expensive, through an app, and doesn’t even help fund the local government
I don't want a video explaining how to do the thing. I want step-by-step instructions in a plain text document, on a single page, ideally that I can see all of without scrolling while using a reasonably big font.
The problem with that is then you're subject to the English composition skills of the person creating the instructions. Which, granted, can sometimes be better than their videography skills, but at least with a camera you know which bolt they're talking about
That's a niche case. Disassembly and repair manuals always had pictures and they had videos _before_ YouTube existed.
But then I have to watch video which in 15 minutes tells me where to find 3 checkboxes in Windows. Wtf. I can write that in 5 mins an read that in a minute.
I mean sure, in an ideal world. But in an ideal world we would all be living in small walkable communities and we wouldn't have to worry about all this nonsense
This. It also backfires in two ways. A video takes a lot and requires broadband, infrastructure and such. You have to rewatch it over and over to find something. The speed of speech.
In text you can search. Also reading of average person is 3-4 times faster than speech. Can be up to 50 times.
Oh yes. I love the Big Ugly ASCII Graphics at the top telling you that someone named "SKul]FuKr" is about to explain to you how to get the stupid golden chocobo in FF-vee-eye-eye.
It has about five times as many steps as quitting drinking, to the best of my recollection.
OMG Yes. The stupid ass "watch this video to help you onboard/put together this inane object" is heinous. You already wasted half a tree to ship me this damn printer. Put the written instructions in the box!
Let me guess, you would like instructions for similar things concentrated together in a sensible order, one or two pages per thing, with a list of keywords and where they appear at the back and a guide to its organisation at the front. Sounds like a radical technology!
I've been doing support for a game modding community for almost a decade now. The amount of times I link our concise illustrated step-by-step guides to a user, just for them to ask for a tutorial video, is maddening...
Agreed! And I do not want a blog giving me the background to every ingredient in a recipe plus a video plus a stream of pictures. I just want the damn recipe.
This is the one for me. I don’t want to watch the stupid video I just want the punchline and the three steps in text. That’s it. Can’t do it? Well the platform sucks. Sorry kids ur videos suck, too. 🤣I’m turning into the principal from Back to the Future and I’m fine with it #slackers
And that's just in general. You can't scroll in a shared space unless you put in headphones or subject other people to your noise. But also capital-A Accessibility also went down.
Reliance on ‘smart’ technology is deleting basic life skills. Great the thing in your pocket can do 5,000 things. Genuinely, that’s really handy. But what if you forget to charge it or are out of range? Do you have any idea how to read a map?
This is especially notable in vehicles. Cars ding at you if you go over the white line, so why bother being aware of it while you're driving? Blind spot detectors are nice, but what if they malfunction and you don't realize it?
You'd need to be able to get the map in the 1st place😅
I remember as a kid that u could buy one in almost every kiosk and there were plenty of them around the town.
Kiosk RUCH in Poland had almost EVERYTHING. Recently they closed the last one 😭 can't even buy bus tickets if there's no automat nearby
I want blockbuster and physical media back. I want iPods, I miss my 1st gen nano... I miss the colorful translucent plastic aesthetic, when companies weren't afraid to design things that weren't all same-y lol. and maybe the things we were promised as kids that became too expensive for anyone.
I miss rental places. There was something to the limited choice and also the very real possibility that you may not be able to get what you want. I love B movies and a lot of my exposure to them came from striking out and grabbing something with JCVD or a giant monster on the cover.
I will never understand Blockbuster nostalgia. Everyone hated it so much at the time. The local video store deserves nostalgia, but not fucking Blockbuster!
Also, if you want to rent videos again, you can still do it at the library. The only difference is they don't make you pay anymore.
I mean that's fair lol. my local blockbuster was cool but that doesn't mean all of em were. I guess it's more the concept that it represented, a very millennial one at that.
We had a small two-location chain that was the only rental place in town. The library doesn’t quite have the same kind of limited selection and, most importantly, doesn’t have someone who has been stuck on a stool behind a cash register watching VHS tapes for hours a week to give recommendations.
My town had a little, independent place called Video to Go that I remember very fondly. My friends and I wouldn't set foot in Blockbuster on principle.
I have mine too! but no charger anymore, poor thing is a glossy black and silver brick. :( I regret giving away my 5th gen nano, it was purple and I liked it a lot lol.
Yeah, but remember how everything 🤖TECHNOLOGICALLY-ADVANCED🤖 in the 80s was, like, a really delicate microchip surrounded by beige casing? They made shit look all the same back then, too! Ooh, or if it wasn’t beige casing, it was black. Boxy and black or boxy and beige were your only options.
I wasn't around yet for the 80's but I believe it lol, my dad kept some of his old tech for a while so I'd come across some of it here and there. it was kinda charming in its own way in my opinion. :P
Stop making everything "smart" or have a screen. I don't need a screen on my TV or toaster oven. Things can just be things without also being computers.
Hah! Completely mistyped that! I originally had "don't need a tv on my fridge..." And then changed it to screen but inadvertently kept tv instead of fridge.
The ‘smart’ on my TV means it takes a solid couple minutes to respond to the remote after switching on while it loads everything, including the ads in the menus.
I enjoy the notification that my dishwasher finished its cycle more than expected.
It’s mostly useful when I need to call home and have my daughters unload it.
“Xennial” (born in ‘81 and never feeling like I fit in one generation)
- why do we have to be reachable at all hours?
- would prefer that we not live through and remember every unprecedented historical moment ever
- I miss the very early days of Twitter
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- oh! For the love of god, why do we need 20 different platforms to interact with colleagues at work (Teams plus Slack plus Discord plus email plus text)?! I want to know one main thing and not ever have to check the others.
You actually made me blink twice. I used Pidgin when I was first on Linux. (Having flashbacks now). Miss clients that just, worked, and did what they were designed to do.
I feel the "reachable at all hours" thing so much, it really stresses me out. I've started drawing hard lines and allowing myself to be unavailable outside of "online working" time
Kids these days don’t appreciate music. Back in my day we Alt Rock BANDS. With MUSICIANS. Not some kid on a midi pad and Ableton sampling music to make beats to breathy talk over.
Subscription based business models; the fear mongering we learned about socialism in grade-high school regarding not owning outright or having rights to anything seems to be the 🇺🇸 way now.
Also horrible if you have kids, I used to have to debate whether to spend 2.99 on an app now some of these kids games want to charge you 9.99 a month or week!
you sat down and logged on and played puzzle games or sth, and when you logged off, you were fully offline. now every bit of our lives is enmeshed with the internet, from social relationships to personal identity. it has fundamentally altered our society
Why are little kids' birthday parties these picture perfect Instagram moments with color themes and balloon installations? What happened to haphazard streamers tied up in the back yard, supermarket sheet cake, and attacking some poor college kid who got paid to show up dressed as a Power Ranger?
I will pay a not insignificant amount of money to never host a birthday party at my home. The cleaning before and after. The noise. The difficulty of getting rid of people from your house. My kid had a pool party at a community center and it was great.
there are entire industries around outsourcing a birthday party, they're definitely around. My nephew had a dude come around and set up a bumper car track and a bunch of go karts and made everyone wear mario and luigi hats and damn it was a good time
yeah, a research project that teaches you more about the topic and leaves you with a deeper understanding of what you're trying to do. vs an ai who will tell you the code, and then can't explain it because you can't trust anything it says in case it hallucinates
A friend of mine asked ChatGPT how to do something in a particular programming language, and after a while of trying to make the suggestion work, found out the function suggested did not exist in that language...
LOL! this happened to me with one of those dumb ai sites that shows up when you google questions. sat there for a good 30 minutes thinking it was my set up... and it just didn't exist at all
Many times I’ve gotten non-functioning code. Before I would spend hours trying to find where I went wrong. Now I just paste the code in and ask. Half the time it’s like “you missed a period on line 354” and it’s always been right. 🤷♂️ also, its ability to answer questions from screenshots is amazing.
We want AI to help us, do our laundry, and learn faster. It has never been easier for someone alone to compete with big players on a complex project, a HUGE win for the people.
Don't reject "everything associated with it", or you'll end up the loser of a poorly executed still incredible revolution.
Using AI to summarize text is similarly flawed as using it as a search engine. It removes context and nuance, and standardizes learning outcomes. Same as it does with writing. Makes everything bland and mediocre.
Actually, my most millennial complaint is that the 00’s gave us all these new bands that had one great album, one overproduced follow-up, and then they went to shit.
The Killers, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Audioslave, Arctic Monkeys, Incubus, etc
Typing on phones absolutely sucks. This is why songs from artists like Billie Eilish are all lower case or in caps, adding things like punctuation and correct capitalization suck when you’re fighting autocorrect, so they all just stopped doing it.
yeah when my auto caps are on, it fucks with my autocorrect for some reason. i’ll manually capitalize if i need to, but i’m not going to go back and correct every other word after autocorrect decided i was wrong because the first letter of a sentence was automatically capitalized…
I honestly ended up just disabling my autocorrect entirely. I'd rather spell something wrong than fight with my own tech to type a niche/weirdly spelled word, or even just cuss freely!
As an elder millennial that was a brief shining moment. We were used to NES games not working on SNES etc. The PS2 combining backwards compatibility with a DVD player was a mind-blowing. Peak Sony.
What ever happened to plugging in your ColecoVision or Atari and it just dumping you in the middle of a game already in progress?? oop, look at that — just died.
(I’m just kidding, I miss the hell out of the PS2, too.)
All phones are the same now. It used to be that getting a new phone was exciting and people in the know would immediately recognise it. Even after they all became black slabs the improvement from an Android 2.2 to 2.5 phone was exciting. Now it's just slightly faster with a different camera
I was watching some of Buffy with my sister the other day, and it really stuck out how they kept doing scenes in the middle of the night in a graveyard, and yet I could still see what was going on! Lost technology, apparently.
Companies cutting corners with electronics. We’ve moved on from “batteries not included” to “charger not included”. Wtf. If you’re paying that much it should come with a freaking charger.
'When we bought our games from the store we bought the finished product, not a work in progress that took another two years of updates to be get right'
Needing to contact customer service and being met with a chat box or some stupid set of prerecorded messages that you have to navigate perfectly or you have to hang up and try again.
I literally never want to speak to a human being on the phone so if I have elected to call customer service, this is a "I need to talk to a person" level call. If I could have solved the problem on my own with your website, I would have. I don't want to be here either.
At least give me an email address. I don't care if you only get back to me in 2-4 business days, as long as that at least has useful information regarding my request...
I have tolerance for like 2 rounds of the menu prompts and then if it sends me back to the same menu we are now getting the desperation for HUMAN yelling going lol. It can be pretty cathartic is smash the 0 tho
Do you rake your leaves? Leaving leaf litter in select areas (like as mulch in edges and flower beds) and not cutting grass super short, can help them at various stages of their life cycle, and encourage more in future years.
When I was little, everyone told me not to say my name and age on the internet. I lie about both to some extent to this day. I'm a person on the internet. The person behind the screen isn't here.
I miss the days when technology had audio/visual feedback as to things happening. Everything's so damped down now that when I see a spinning wheel pop up... I don't know if things are actually happening, or my system's trying to solve the Halting Problem.
I hate watching/listening to videos for Instructions to operate xyz thing.
Give me a well formatted operating manual
If I "have to" watch your stupid video, at the very least provide a transcript, in an easy printable layout so I can print the damn thing myself and following along.
It’s a con. And it pushes up prices at vets because everyone’s insured so they charge what they like.
I will not fall for it again, I’ll just put £50/month in a savings account and self-insure. In fact I’ve started doing similar with phones and anything else that’s not compulsory.
I’m always amazed that none of the policies I can get cover annual dental cleanings, which is the exact reason I need the insurance. It’s like $1,200.00 per animal at my regular vet! I think your strategy is a good one.
Umm, Boomers never took their dog to the vet for anything unless the animal was literally not moving. Pay to get your dog's teeth cleaned? Like my God, nobody in the Boomer generation ever did that. Please tell me you do not actually pay over $1,000 to get your dog or cat's teeth cleaned, do you?
Yes, I do. Dogs get plaque and periodontal disease just like people do and I want to prevent my dogs having to lose their teeth in the future. My oldest dog is a Chihuahua and they are especially prone to tooth decay.
Well considering I'm a Boomer I think I might have a wee bit of insight. Actually I do think you are right, it was my Greatest Generation Parents with me growing up with them who never took pets to the vet. Yeah the Greatest generation, it was the way they were.
In the states you can usually add on a routine dental cleaning as extra if they offer wellness services. Dentals are considered routine wellness alongside vaccines and annual bloodwork so aren’t covered by accident/injury/illness pet insurance without the add-on.
So over here we also have vet plans- I pay a monthly sub and get vaccinations, worming and flea treatments and two check-ups a year. It saves maybe 20% off paying separately but also helps the vet as I’ll only go to their practice. That’s on top of insurance.
I run a large vet hospital and can assure you that only ~4% of our patients have pet insurance (USA) however, the cost of our medical supplies and services (like outside labs and radiologists) have been increasing 13%+ a year - sometimes as high as 30% forcing us to increase costs dramatically 🫠
Over here that would be more like the inverse- only about 5-10% dog owners wouldn’t have insurance. I don’t know about other pets, it’s probably much lower.
This. Paid for pet insurance. My dog ended up getting a seven pound tumor and when I sent the vet paperwork showing she needed surgery, I was told they wouldn't give me any help because it was 'pre-existing'. (It was a tiny little skin tag once upon a time that ballooned). 100s a month for nothing.
My millennial complaint is that millennials skip right from Boomer Complaints to Millennial Complaints without considering all the valid and important Gen X Complaints
Same. Born in late 50s and it maddens me to hear younger people acting like Reagan and Bush were laughable, harmless grandpas when they were responsible for every thing bad in nearly a century.
My understanding is, the business refunds it straight away from their end, but the BANKS take five working days to move the money. The longer they can hang onto your cash in transit, the more they make 💸
I once had a life insurance company forget the decimals when entering my monthly payment for a policy. Instead of withdrawing $30.33 the first month, they took out $3033. Gone in an instant from my account. Guess how long it took them to get it back? (Hint: not an instant)
Gen-X gripe here: I’ve already checked your help pages, and don’t want to chat with a stupid, useless bot (that will only direct me to your help pages), I want to talk to a human (one who can actually solve my problem). BRING BACK HUMANS!
Absolutely. Look, I’m one of those millennials who hates the phone. If I’m calling you? I’ve already done extensive research and exhausted all other avenues. I don’t need a bot to tell me to try turning it off and on again
I hate how it took me 3 hours of trying to contact a company for a refund to figure that option out. It's not intuitive for people to know that AI can only respond to certain keywords. Stupid thing couldn't even figure out synonyms.
...and where is that effin' chat bot _now_ when you'd actually use it for something for once?
(And should we be flattered or insulted by them forever ignoring someone exists between boomers and millennials?)
Lol. This was literally me on the phone with my mail order pharmacy. It told me I needed to call and provide more information. In a recorded message on the call I had just placed. I AM CALLING, menu bot. Please connect me to a person.
"Oh would you like to talk to a human? Sounds like you're interested in our premium service package. Please click the link below to create an account and enter your payment details: "
Blacking out sports events the era of streaming is stupid. If I have an account on a service that is providing the feed I should get that feed no matter where I am
I don’t want 4 separate services just to watch all the games one sports team throughout a season. Let me subscribe to that specific team and I always get access just to their games
I live 2 blocks from where the NY blackout zone ends and the Boston one begins. It’s a real treat. Islanders last night were blacked out in both the in-market app (Gotham Sports) and the out of market one (ESPN+) because they both assume I’m in the other zone.
As an Aussie that sounds asinine. But they've decided to put as much of sport nowdays on pay tv you're better off going to the actual stadium, tickets are cheaper.
Mine is that four stars is a good review and designing your review system so that anything less than five stars is a disaster makes it completely worthless.
3 Stars is average! It was fine! You did the job and I got the thing! The interaction was as expected! It was definitionally average! I know it’s in the employee handbook that StoreMart employees provide exceptional service but that’s not how it works!
That's a good point. The other day I read a book that was as bad as it could have been without me just giving up on it and I was like "this was awful, actively bad, three stars."
I'm happy to review, but my problem for example with a taxi is that "we arrived on time alive" is the expected level, so five star. Anything above I can't review, because see all the other comments above.
If you really want my feedback, have the manager give me a phone call and talk to me. Interesting how my feedback is only valuable when I’m the one doing all the work.
Like I understand that the system does in fact act like the world is ending if you get a less than 5 star review, so I'm not going to fuck someone over by giving them a 3 star review, I just won't leave one at all. But like. 3 is fine! 4 is good! What the fuck does any of this mean anymore!
Exactly! I want to be able to review a book and say all the things I liked about it and give it four stars because it's good but not a classic, but doing that will mean that book will be hidden from other people who would enjoy it, so I either have to give it five stars or not review it...
Got car serviced-mentioned on survey it took 15 minutes to find my car because they didn’t mention it was in a lot across the street they’ve never used before. Got a frantic email the next day asking me to please “rescore the survey” so they wouldn’t get in trouble. Now I just don’t do them at all.
Throwback to that time I got an angry message from an AirBnB host demanding to know why I left them a 4 star review and how it was really just a slap in the face. She deleted my review completely rather than let it stay on that property.
People keep complaining that their favorite chains are dying while ignoring the reason why that is. Why yes boomer, I do prefer eating at small bar and grill because the taste and quality of their food is leagues better than what Applebee's serves.
I am very grateful that the Playmoboard Bulletin Board was moderated by such compassionate, yet firm community members. I was young, dumb, and in a conservative friend group, so I thought I should be anti-LGBTQ. I left a comment in support of a homophobic post, and both posts were flagged...
The first poster was banned for his remark. I was shown mercy, on account of my obvious youth, but the moderator said "I'm sure you are just repeating what you have heard from your parents, but this is not acceptable and if you were an adult you would be banned for it." ...
It cut me to the quick, in large part because I realized that although my parents were indeed conservative, they would *not* have said anything of the kind.
That was one of the thorny thoughts which I picked at over the following decade and a half while I very slowly moved from homophobe to ally.
My parents, bless them, have made a similar, albeit slower journey. In part because of their horror at Trump's hateful first term, but also because of seeing how it affected loved ones who are in the LGBTQ community.
That boomers just think we are lazy job hoppers but if you stay at a job too long someone brand new is likely getting paid more than you are and housing is crazy expensive. Oh and the rich shouldn’t get tax cuts
This boomer stayed at various parts of one company and retired after 45 years, but it's been obvious for the last 30 or so that that wasn't going to be an option for younger people.
And I knew a lot of people who did consulting, and my wife did startups, expecting many of them to die after a while.
When your app/website asks if I want to enable some stupid feature, the answer is “No.” Period. Not “Not now,” not “Not this time.” No. Don’t ask me again.
I've taken to creating these accounts under the name "Adelbert Poopfondler" and providing absolute clownshoes answers to all of the demographic questions they ask. If I have to create an account, I'm fucking with their data.
RnB sucks nowadays. It sucks because it's a bunch of 20 yr olds. In the 80's you had artists like Luther Vandross, Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, etc. Artists already in their mid 30's/early 40's.
They were grown. They didnt dance. Their shirts werent off. They were artists. Mainstream RnB is cooked.
I can't stand new mumble rap & the loss of lyricism but that's because I grew up listening to Tupac not Gladys Knight. That was my boomer parents. I love this for you though 💕
I miss media just being on a local hard drive. When I was in uni, I had a huge library of music and movies, and there were great programs to play and organize them. I didn’t have to worry about losing any of it (I had backups) and I could export the data easily into a csv. Streaming is dumb.
The world moved so fast that almost everything I learned throughout school (except history) was functionally useless and out of date by the time I was out of university.
We did it before we can do it again! I guess this depends on whether you’re on the older or younger end of millennial, but we wore wide leg jeans in the 90s.
I’m always happy to get a boost on energy efficiency. But it’s not good for the environment to constantly be producing the metals and plastics needed for a new machine every 5 years.
Most of these machines only last a couple of years, I don't need new upgraded energy efficiency every year, I want shit that lasts for a decent amount of time so I don't feel like I'm constantly throwing money out the window. Plus the trash it generates
Ehh, refrigerators certainly haven't gotten that much more efficient since 2015 and other appliances use less energy now because they removed nice features like heated dry (for dishwashers.)
This for sure! I felt a proper grown up when I bought myself a brand new sewing machine in 2009, and even new, it Never worked as well as my 1957 Singer does today
There aren't enough arena style fps games like Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament any more. Bring back the option for bots in games so I don't need to be online.
YES!! Not every fps game needs to be online. I wish developers would figure this out.
Unreal Tournament was great: set the bot difficulty to your level and have at it. No internet connection required.
Maybe it's just Recency Bias, but popular/mainstream 2020s music doesn't have a distinctive "vibe" to it and a big reason why is because it's just emulating previous decades. If I wanted to listen to 90s dance I'd just listen to 90s dance.
It's so focus-grouped that it has no staying power or style of its own. Unless it's really unique/quirky it gets forgotten the minute it leaves the top 40.
I'm a xennial so I'll take two. My gen x peeve is that intentionally torn denim is pretentious. My millennial peeve is people not using headphones on public transport.
I don't remember who sang this song that's stuck ob my click wheel ipod until I order a cable that works properly but "sloppy and broke became the look because it was affordable...now kids pay good money to look poor and get charged for the extra work"
I don't mind Bluetooth but it eats battery and I'm on my phone constantly and I lose ear buds like I do sunglasses but someone got me Bluetooth or jack cans for chrimmus so we're learning to deal, cusp life in the Oregon trail microgeneration is wild life.
You can get a USB-C to 3.5mm audio jack converter cable. That said I went aggressively far out of my way to buy a phone that still had a built in jack, so I feel you.
I got cans with both Bluetooth and jack for chrimmis so it'll work out but Thanks for thst because my last phone with a jack died a tragic death and I mourn 💕 I like analog sometimes.
I was in an ER waiting room recently and someone was listening to their phone on full blast. I'm too dumb to complain but thankfully someone else did and they turned it down.
I was in an ER once and a couple were watching some true crime show on full volume together on their phone. And somehow I was the asshole for making comments about how rude they were being.
I am the person who ask the dickhead to use headphones. If someone have nerves to annoy others with their TikTok reels I have nerves to ask them not to.
I can understand that. As a non-neurotypical I too sometimes struggle but mostly I think that I'm weirdo anyway so I might as well benefit from it and be blunt when needed :p
I really need to commit too carrying cheap wired headphones with the shitty phone port adaptors we're all forced to use now and "helpfully" offering them to people for free who appear to have "forgotten" them and need a helping hand.
I gave someone unused wired earphones when they were playing music out loud on the train. They took them and stashed them in their pocket but at least they turned the music down a bit.
I'd be the person trying to get everyone else to play their phones without headphones to join in. "Hey, it's share what you're listening to in public day! Let's all join in"
There was intentionally torn denim back in my (millennial) high school days too. It will never go away. And I agree, it's the most pretentious and stupid thing ever.
No, I don't want to pay for your online service. No, I don't want to watch adverts that fund your online service. No, you can't use my data to fund your online service. No, I'm not going to read your terms and conditions, I'm just going to assume the above is OK with you.
My most Gen-X complaint; they don't make JNCO khakis with a elastic band and we still don't have cars that change color when wet like we were promised!
My TV account at least lets me tie it to an app so I can use my phone as a remote, which is handy because it takes me five seconds to lose my remote. I think the problem with a lot of these accounts is they don’t have benefits. I’m not against accounts in principle, just make it have a reason!
💯 the other day I opened an article on my news feed and the site prompted me to log in with my Google account. What??? In what dimension would there EVER be ANY reason to log into Google to read a news article?! These losers are thirstier for your information to sell on than incels are for women.
Stop adding extra stuff to my appliances. I don't need my washing machine to answer my calls, I need it to wash my clothes and preferably be energy efficient. I don't need my fridge to be wifi enabled, I need the condenser to work for more than 3 years. Just make things cheap, reliable, and dumb.
but if we made everything reliable we wouldn't make record profits this quarter, which might make the shareholders unhappy, and you can't make the shareholders unhappy!
The most advanced thing I could do with on my washing machine is having the fucker beep again now and then to remind me I still have a load ready to take out :p It beeps once when it's ready and the rest is on me and I never don't forget
My mom gifted us a fancy litter box that, I shit you not, *required* an app and 2-factor auth to operate. Unfortunately, the actually-required mechanical pieces broke within a week and we returned to our dumb-but-functional litter box 😂
There's too much of EVERYTHING. Too many things to choose from and too many things to juggle. From a dozen different streaming services to a hundred different phone types to an entire aisle of different chips at the grocery store. It drives me crazy.
The same people that love the entire aisle of chips, one of just soda, one of sugary cereals… will go hating on purple cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and napa, for all being “just cabbage” 🙃
US grocery stores are 100% ridiculous
As an Xer I also see the irony in that my parents are part of the Silent Generation and never got much credit for how they actually changed the world and blazed the trail for the Boomers who took all the credit for it later.
Instagram makes it so hard to read the captions on Reels! It desperately wants me to swipe up and just watch endless videos it picks for me, but I came here to watch THIS specific video and read its caption. Scrolling through a caption is interpreted as swiping to the next video and I hate it.
I think this “modern aesthetic” of perfectly smooth, frictionless user interfaces has a massive backlash coming.
Humans have excellent physical sensory skills and we’re just not using them to make our lives easier anymore
I don't want the thinnest sleekest piece of hardware ever. I want a brick of a phone that someone could use as a battering ram and it would still be okay.
I found out that Samsung(!) makes a tablet which has a headphone jack(!) three buttons(!), real, clickable buttons(!) and a swappable battery(!) which is also waterproof(!). They make it for working people who can't deal with BS.
The home button thing is why when I got a new one, it was the SE 3. It's not *quite* a real button, more of the weird thing they had starting with the 7, but it's close.
true story: I applied to a job with a company a couple days ago - their system rejected me minutes after I sent it in - and - I'm not kidding- they have been sending me surveys to tell them how to improve their hiring process. A survey. To someone they rejected without even an interview. mmmOK
This one gets me. Some actually make sense because they're time based services! But if I "own" a thing, there'd better not be any bullshit monthly service.
This is the real left-right unifier. The conservatives are furious that "the libs" want to make it a society of renters. "You'll own nothing and be happy," they repeat to each other in horror.
And here we are complaining about the same thing. Nobody likes this development.
I mean, sure, but the advent of Fox News (1995!) + the flourishing of right wing radio (Fairness doctrine) and the Citizens United decision ultimately did more….and all roads lead back to Reagan.
Yes I didn’t mean to imply he had no agency, but instead that the majority of what happened during his administration was orchestrated by others and he played along in order to be a more palatable face. Not that he has no culpability or couldn’t have acted differently
The funny thing is, I’m dyslexic and I’d still rather get my internet in text form.
Video is for long form productions and how-to demonstrations of complex actions. Stay in your lane.
What the fuck is a crypto
bunch of morons printing their own trading cards and pretending they're money, it's literally just making bubbles and then Ponzi scheming why are people taking this seriously why is this a whole industry why do I have to hear about this shut up shut up shut up god fuck
I regret to inform you that's a Gen Z complaint. Gen Z has less crypto nuts than the millennial generation by a longshot, most crypto bros are just millennials who unfortunately also happen to be idiots
Blockchain isn't even useful technology for receipts. We already have useful technology for receipts called databases. Blockchain is another techbro solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist because the problem was already solved more efficiently.
Search engines should have been made a public utility.
Everything that the internet can do has been worsened and weakened by making it a more efficient advertising space to the exclusion of all else; there is no profit in giving you good searches and crazy profit in letting people buy your results.
YES and complete the series!! We want finales, otherwise streaming services are going to end up being 80% shows with unfinished cliffhangers that piss people off and a handful of completed shows people actually want to watch
Yeah while cancellations have always been a thing, the economics have changed for sure. Being allowed to grow your audience or improve your story is not a thing on streaming. They need instant hits
On top of that, if your application or function is going to take longer than twenty seconds to start up, it shouldn't get to steal focus when it finishes. I've switched to working on other things in the meantime; I'll get back to you when I notice you're ready.
The internet was better before it was taken over by monolithic social media platforms. We should go back to posting on message boards and personal pages full of weird gifs.
Omg, this. I had someone complaining to me about millennials when he really meant an older gen-alpha. I thoroughly enjoyed pointing out that the kid's *parents* were millennials and there's a whole generation between millennial parent and irritating child.
In the 90s, they impeached a president for lying about an affair. Now we have someone coming into office who was convicted of fraud, election interference, sexual assault, and provably lied tens of thousands of times about literally everything. I want to stop living through "unprecedented times".
He was not convicted of sexual assault. It was “sexual abuse” (and defamation) in the E. Jean Carroll case. There’s a big difference! He has sued (or threatened) people who get it wrong.
Did you even read the wiki article? "Sexual abuse is a term used for a persistent pattern of sexual assault". So I guess I'm sorry for using the less severe term when describing the heinous, violent violation he did to that poor woman?
I did read the wiki article. I quoted it to you. I’m a lawyer and I followed the case closely. I have no quarrel with you, and totally agree with your opinion of him. She should have received a lot more money!!
Xennial here. I spent years building my iTunes library so I could listen to music on my teeny little iPod. Now I have to carry this chunky smartphone and go through a streaming service? This brick of a phone is tugging down my comfy middle aged lady sweatpants.
And if the only way to purchase music that can be listened to on the devices available to me, offer the original! Tried to buy Ziggy Stardust (I have the vinyl but may want to listen on the go). Only a 2012 remaster was available. The original mastering was fine and what I want to listen to!
My missing ones aren’t even bootleg, they’re just out of print because they sold all of 500 copies in 1997, and it’s not profitable to offer them, I guess.
You don't. You can load MP3's into that chunky phone and use a media player. You can also still use your iPod or other devices. You can also build your own now with parts readily and cheaply available. You do not have to be attached to streaming.
I won’t pay for Apple Music to listen to the music that I have already paid for. My old iPod is the only way I can listen to my Alternative Christmas playlist.
Until the phone I got last week I was still transferring MP3’s I downloaded YEARS ago. With the new upgrade they wouldn’t transfer and I’d need to pay for Apple Music for them to show up.
I was able to copy all my music a few months back on to a new Android phone. I then installed an app that plays local music and doesn't know squat about streaming, and just plays what you want from your files on the device.
(Still a chunky phone but no streaming sub required)
The way Apple very carefully funnel you into their explicit way of doing everything (to maximise their profits) is why at all costs I avoid the Apple ecosystem.
Yeah it’s very frustrating bc i saved it all to the cloud and it’s showing the songs, they’re just greyed out! I could get the ones I used itunes to download back, but not my pre-apple ones.
Syncing your iTunes library and playlists to their devices from the computer might not be so promoted at this point, but it does still work, it's what I do.
The modern smartphone surpasses the iPod in every conceivable way, but my iPod Video brought me more joy than any smartphone ever has. It's not that smartphones are incapable of sparking joy, but they come with their fair share of misery, whereas the iPod was all upside.
People buy too many things and micro trends are ruining the world- you don't need all new drinking glasses because some lady said it is esthetic. Stop buying stuff!
I don't want to install a fucking app for a website. I already HAVE an app for looking at websites, it's called a browser and it works on all websites.
A client who works in cybersecurity told me about how vulnerable apps are to attacks and how inadequate the testing tends to be (it's BAD) which makes this whole thing even more maddening.
God I feel this in my soul. Every time someone sends me a link I get nagged to install a goddamn app. (Looking at you Reddit) Similarly many sites now don’t allow guest checkout. Went to buy a product off of Target, and couldn’t without creating an account. Fuck em, went elsewhere with my business.
I've gotten letters from companies when I cancel their service that sound like breakup letters from a clingy ex. "What did we do wrong??? Please don't leave me!!!" Dude you're an internet service provider and I'm moving overseas, it truly is not personal.
HelloFresh was the WORST at this - constantly hounding me stalker-like through every possible comms medium. It took me breaking into tears in frustration when they cold-called me & me complaining about it on social media for them to stop.
When I cancelled HF a customer service rep called to yell at me about it. Actually raised their voice when I calmly laid out the issues I was having and how it wasn’t working for me.
Ended up having to just hang up on them cuz they were max level angry, and I was done.
“Wait! What if we just PAUSE for a bit?! You know… take sone time off but leave all your stuff here. I’m sure you’ll decide to stay once you’ve had a moment to really consider how foolish you’re being right now.”
I think it’s changing now. We recently published an app to the App Store and the reviewer we got doesn’t approve marketplace apps for publishing unless there’s a guest checkout.
This is really silly, but Arby's lets you get all their app-only loyalty deals via the website & that makes me more loyal to Arby's than I ever have been (they give a lot of free stuff away!). The bar is so low that "doesn't make me pay more because I don't want another app" is a big selling point
Unfortunately web developers have forgotten how to write code that looks good on both phone and larger computer screens.
Or their task masters don't see a need
Come join us on Lemmy! It's got... well, uh... militant Linux enthusiasts! And communists! And, I'll be honest, not a whole lot else. But it doesn't have a useless app pushed on you by a degraded web experience!
I miss filler episodes; it seems like every new show is only 6-8 episodes and there's no time for them anymore, but there's simultaneously way too many tv series coming out that could or should have just been a film
there’s no more just episodic shows you can tune in to a random episode without missing tons of context, other than like csi / ncis / chicago sewer patrol 19. need more suits, more mando season 1!
I don't think I've seen all of it, but you're right about s1 mando; it's nice to have that kind of semi-self-contained episode again that I liked a lot as a kid
Yeah; immensely irritating how incredible shows will get canceled after only an 8-episode season or two because they don't get record streaming views right off the bat because of that, too 😔
Dont make me download an app when we all have browsers on our phones. Also, companies should be required to pay us for the use of our data! We need better consumer protection laws.
This!! I started taking Dupixent for my special post covid eosinophilic asthma diagnosis. It’s provided by Accredo, which is Express Scripts, which is Cigna. Accredo contorted itself to convince me adding their app/registering on their website was essential. Nope & got billed thru ExpressScripts 🤣
And they're all so fucking boring too. If I wanted to listen to wildly ignorant people rambling about complete nonsense for two and a half hours I'd go to my aunt's holiday parties
This was one of my called shots from like 2011 when we started seeing the stirrings of networks wanting larger pieces of the streaming pie. I hate that it came true, and that it came to its full, toxic fruition so quickly.
IIRC it was an HBO thing which was always (as long as I've been alive) its own separate paid service on top of basic cable so it wasn't a "normal" show.
Add to this that in smaller countries it's absolutely random which seasons of a series is available at all. I tried netflix once, two weeks later I was back on Arrrrrrr.
Also, why is everything so fucking dull? Like, I remember all our stuff was so colorful and now everything is black, gray, or white. GIVE ME COLOR AGAIN!
Seriously. I grew up around car mechanics so I was able to tell what the make and model was from just the silhouette but now they all are the same body style except the Cyberjunk.
This is a huge one for me. I hate minimalism. It’s not just color either. Everything is becoming flat surfaces with as little detail as possible. We used to build beautiful buildings and make ornate cast iron streetlights. Now it’s all glass and stainless steel tubes.
You ain't even lying. All the fast food places are the same square gray boxes to the point if there wasn't a sign, I couldn't tell you what place was there. I remember when our computer monitors were colorful apples and our consoles were multicolored.
My pet theory on the blandness of buildings is that the overreliance, absolute dependence on automobiles makes it pointless to make a building visually appealing. Why bother when drivers shouldn't look away from the road and passengers won't be able to look at it long enough to notice the details?
It’s much cheaper to build a really tall building out of glass panels because the assembly is so much faster and the overall load of a piece of glass is way less than stone or brick. The expensive part is heating and cooling but developers don’t pay for that. The people using the building do.
I'm talking about low to mid rise buildings as well. I'm most cases, existing buildings can tack on a facade that improves the aesthetic for little cost. It's just not worthwhile because few people would even notice from their cars.
The us uses more energy on just air conditioning than the entire continent of Africa uses in total, and that’s mostly because we spent the last 50 years building giant greenhouses in every city, even places like phoenix or Vegas.
Everything is now about manufacturing efficiency, not beauty or craftsmanship, and the companies manufacturing the grey shlock have spent billions to convince people they like it that way
It’s incredible that western countries embraced this crap after spending 60 years claiming that ugly utilitarian efficiency was the cost of communism. Meanwhile I’m currently in communist Vietnam and people here decorate the fuck out of public spaces.
Some of my favorite places are covered in graffiti. I like being able to look at the stuff that's been there for decades and seeing a glimpse of that time. There's none of that in this dull husk of modern architect.
…I thought I had hallucinated these. I L O V E D these when I was a kid and I have never met a single other person who has ever heard of them before. I literally maybe they were a fever dream I had as a 5 year old. You have made me so happy 😂😂😂
Yes, because the large group of internet friends I made over 20 years ago are all there and my mom knows how to use Facebook and won’t learn anything else (for social/messaging). Also, it doesn’t specify the complaint needs to be current.
Man idk about you but Facebook was actually popular like... ten years ago and a lotta millenials would've been late teens and in their early 20s at the time so I think it's perfectly accurate for their age.
However yeah all their families joined the app with them.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I definitely used Facebook a lot 15-20 years ago (elder M). But I've barely logged in in over 10 years and the only thing keeping me from deleting my account is that I have a lot of old pictures that aren't backed up anywhere else. I think that's pretty common.
Funny, I always hated optical media. At first it was a godsend, true, with its huge space, but with drive speeds going up more and more, it got really tedious, with the computer constantly having to wait for the drive to spin up and down. I'm actually glad we got rid of them.
Then don't buy the vibrators that require a phone app? There are tons of them that don't, moreso than those that do. And even those that do generally have a manual override.
I don't think I've ever in my whole life seen one that can *only* be run with a phone app.
No. Just failed to see how it was a relevant generational complaint when it wasn't a remotely common situation. It'd be like me complaining that pickles only come in cotton candy flavor nowadays.
Eh, I’m just happy for the workers benefitting more. Yes people are tipping and expecting larger tips than customary though and it sucks and is awkward when you cannot afford to do that.
There's widespread dissatisfaction with the screens that prompt for tips. Not only that, but discussions are rife with expectations that consumers tip, because we're subsidizing low wages.
Before anyone else comments, know that your anger at people for asking for tips is misplaced; direct it at the companies that don’t pay people enough so they rely on tips to make rent.
If it was the employees asking for a tip it would be one thing, but this trend is solely due to the manufacturers of POS devices adding it as an obligatory step in the checkout process. Having a tip jar is one thing but having the Square company ask me to tip 15% on a candy bar is not for their sake
Also random websites need to not be offering to send me notifications. No I do not want automatic updates from Pet NewS Daily, I'm literally just trying to find out about hamster feed
The internet was way more fun before social media.
I miss message boards, PHPBB, Forums, etc. Facebook/Twitter/Etc ruined the true feelings of communities.
I had lots of fun on it. Mind you I was also a cringey teenager for most of it so that came with it's own set of interesting interactions. Still I liked the world they made and when the towns update came out, it was awesome.
Well I feel stupid! I got Ragnarok and Gaia Online mixed. I met my husband on Ragnarok. Gaia Online was my love for years. Eventually I was lucky to get a job as an artist making tiny clothing and finally got to Art Director. I'm happy to hear you enjoyed it so much. It was fun to work on.
Oh nice! I loved the tiny clothes and stuff and the holiday events were always fun. Plus the ongoing stories of the NPC's were great. Kinda bummed that GaiaOnline started focusing more on CashShop (especially cause I was broke). I wonder if they ever finished the Gino story.
Dude. MSN was my husband and I’s entire beginning relationship. From meeting to him literally proposing on it to me. 😂 It will always hold a special place in my heart.
By the end, MSN let you draw, use BBCode, change your font, etc. the amount of versatility it had was insane and we've never been able to replicate that since.
So many people don’t use password managers and rely on their memory and weak passwords that they reuse everywhere. This is chaos in the 21st century. There are so many low cost and free options, but people are lazy.
I bought a license for Microsoft Word/Excel back in 2015 and feel like I got the last chopper out of Nam, as I transfer it to new computers and don’t have to pay for 365.
Can companies and businesses not be unreasonable when applying for a job. I am a college graduate, but they ask for so much, and I am willing to work and learn.
Side tangent, I am not sure who these people are who "don't want to work," but I have not met them or think they exist
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And like, no, it says what a Zuckbot *wants* me to be, to maximize its revenue potential.
you just made my entire day with that, holy shit
Best thing? Best audio quality possible and you own it forever (or until disc rot settles but by then you hopefully backed it up digitally)
I (actually my roomate)use Jellyfin to set up the server and Media Monkey to easily rip and organize,label, and find the cover of the CD.
Its a simple process once you get the workflow.
"...the attitude was “if the metrics went up, then let’s just keep replacing more and more, because if the user doesn’t notice, then it’s fine.”
Lost about 300 CDs worth of music I had purchased.
Like i got a notification from spoofy that KRS-One dropped a new single, but it turns out to be a completely unrelated ai generated ambient techno song???
EMBRACE TRADITION (AltaVista, Lycos, AskJeeves)
I have my full complement now, thank you.
In 2012, this tweet was about room-sized area rugs. Two is sufficient, I don’t own a castle, k-thx
Why is this still happening?
That’s the theory, anyway.
That’s 180° from my thinking
I just bought a chaise lounge a store, so I'm set for a good decade, so stop sending me emails about chaise lounges. Maybe a cute side table? Or floor lamp? Throw pillow? Getting targeting marketing for SHIT I JUST PURCHASED makes me never want to shop at that place EVER AGAIN
It's a fanfiction archive, which is more akin to a library than a site like tiktok.
people don't know how to search for stuff that interests them, they just sit around like a sea sponge waiting for whatever floats by
I have friends I've seen, in real time disappear down algorithm driven rabbit holes and have absolutely no idea its happening.
You know, earbuds in, excruciatingly boring loud one-sided talking.
No shame or anything.
(Same for having work meetings on your laptop in a coffee shop.)
Mid-forties to early-fifties should be peak "can figure out computer problems" age. We're the ones who came of age before USB and Windows XP standardized everything.
Ah, sorry, wrong millennium. My bad.
I think we got more shorter stories with shorter episodes than longer less story too
Not to say that we also didn't have slow burn stories but it defo felt less common.
It's pretty great. We're chilling... and still know where all the bodies are buried. 😎
It's called a plug!
Who taught remotes to play hide and seek
Oh god.
I bought a dumb TV back in 2012 and I AGGRESSIVELY DREAD the day that it dies.
I do not want a smart TV. I do not want your bells and whistles, I DO want a damn power button??
Augh.
I still have an old one that I am also dreading the demise of, especially since I think they aren't going to make new ones anymore, but a friend gave me their newer one when they got a smart TV and it's awful and I'm not using it.
Might just be back to plugging a laptop in soon
2. Using a kill-a-watt or a outlet switch can help with the power issue. EVERYTHING is on standby these days. I hear ya!
But that's not taking into account the algorithm you have to pass through to even see it at all, which makes video seem "easier"
Skill isn't universal, tho. I have the skill to do one, not the other, so that one's easier.
(I agree that the algo pushes certain skills right now!)
Those issues used to have been asked on web forums, now they're lost in Discord.
(No, they weren’t perfect. But they weren’t achingly stupid, and were pragmatists).
Also, when a text message is shown on a phone as part of the plot and it's way to small to read and/or the viewer doesn't get enough time to read it.
I think they do it so they do not have to pay for sets, just film it dark, viola! look how much money they save not having to make a set.
I refuse, I don't are how highly it is recommended, if it is dark, shot in low light I turn it off.
if a city hall require a fee to park the mayor should have to top off each and every meter personally
it a city hall requires an app to park we should get to browse the mayor's phone contents at will
But then I have to watch video which in 15 minutes tells me where to find 3 checkboxes in Windows. Wtf. I can write that in 5 mins an read that in a minute.
In text you can search. Also reading of average person is 3-4 times faster than speech. Can be up to 50 times.
It has about five times as many steps as quitting drinking, to the best of my recollection.
https://stepify.tech
Rather chew tinfoil. In the alley behind a Little Chef. In Swindon.
Meanwhile, my first car in the '90s had manual headlights, windows, door locks, and transmission!
I remember as a kid that u could buy one in almost every kiosk and there were plenty of them around the town.
Kiosk RUCH in Poland had almost EVERYTHING. Recently they closed the last one 😭 can't even buy bus tickets if there's no automat nearby
Also, if you want to rent videos again, you can still do it at the library. The only difference is they don't make you pay anymore.
It’s mostly useful when I need to call home and have my daughters unload it.
- why do we have to be reachable at all hours?
- would prefer that we not live through and remember every unprecedented historical moment ever
- I miss the very early days of Twitter
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*stomps foot*
you sat down and logged on and played puzzle games or sth, and when you logged off, you were fully offline. now every bit of our lives is enmeshed with the internet, from social relationships to personal identity. it has fundamentally altered our society
Men used to toil away in fields, bringing in the crops, sowing seeds. Then the plough came along and men no longer needed.
AI just produces stories without meaning. Soon it'll be replaced
But thank god AI exists for summarizing inhuman long text, thank god for the ability to explain any complex text or notion.
Don't reject "everything associated with it", or you'll end up the loser of a poorly executed still incredible revolution.
The Killers, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Audioslave, Arctic Monkeys, Incubus, etc
What about AM?
People can't just not like things for Themselves anymore
He only talked about his love of music and how he listens to music no one else does
He asked me if I'd ever heard of Queen.
I've learnt to accept I'm more than my taste in music
Fuck it, I love ABBA.
I'd include Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs on this list too
Also, games are so expensive?? I remember a brand new game was dropping £30
Also, charity shops were so much better until good items were held back and sold separately
More people will buy it if they already have games for it!!!!
Anyone remember going to shops and getting a bag of sweets (at all!), never mind it only costing 10p
Competing consoles would release add-ons for their own consoles where you could play their competitions' games 😅
No installation. No setting up an account. No connection troubles. No subscription plan.
You turn it on and you play it.
Excellent games, backwards compatible to PS1, AND a DVD player.
What ever happened to plugging in your ColecoVision or Atari and it just dumping you in the middle of a game already in progress?? oop, look at that — just died.
(I’m just kidding, I miss the hell out of the PS2, too.)
TV shows are too dark
Headlights are too bright
(/s /s /s not serious)
Customer service no longer exists!!!
Do you rake your leaves? Leaving leaf litter in select areas (like as mulch in edges and flower beds) and not cutting grass super short, can help them at various stages of their life cycle, and encourage more in future years.
Unfortunately, I’m in a pretty densely populated area that doesn’t make for a particularly good habitat for them.
Give me a well formatted operating manual
If I "have to" watch your stupid video, at the very least provide a transcript, in an easy printable layout so I can print the damn thing myself and following along.
I will not fall for it again, I’ll just put £50/month in a savings account and self-insure. In fact I’ve started doing similar with phones and anything else that’s not compulsory.
My mother (b1944) is at the vet with both her dogs so often she has a seat with her name on it in the waiting room.
I don’t think you understand that generation at all.
When you self insure, you decide what to spend.
There’s a risk of course- something very expensive crops up. But then your insurer might not pay out anyway.
None of them were threatened with the draft. Came of age during Reagan—after the VN war, after the civil rights movement, after second wave feminism.
Sometimes called Generation Jones.
I was never much for Dallas or Dynasty, but don’t my experience get in the way of whatever ageist generalization you were enjoying
I hope Trump doesn't take that vast a challenge....
(And should we be flattered or insulted by them forever ignoring someone exists between boomers and millennials?)
I walked in and bought a Gatorade and left. It went the exact way that experience has gone a hundred other times in my life. Leave me the fuck alone.
Good intent, seems sincere. 4 out of 5.
On my own ten-point scale, there are only to tens, but I can recommend hundreds of titles worth seeing.
Thefuckouttahere
“What if I don’t like it?”
“That’s what Good is for.”
5* are worthless; 1* shows a beef with the brand/courier etc.
3* are useful if 4* proves uncertain.
I don’t understand anyone giving 2*
Bury me in my skinny jeans
That was one of the thorny thoughts which I picked at over the following decade and a half while I very slowly moved from homophobe to ally.
Oh no wait.
(Admittedly, my FB feed doesn't bear this out, which is why I find myself muting more and more of my fellow Gen X there.)
I have kids about your age, and they work constantly.
And I knew a lot of people who did consulting, and my wife did startups, expecting many of them to die after a while.
They were grown. They didnt dance. Their shirts werent off. They were artists. Mainstream RnB is cooked.
(and, no, I don’t know how to “just google it”. What’s a ‘google’?)
Signed, alienated genx
Unreal Tournament was great: set the bot difficulty to your level and have at it. No internet connection required.
Ghana thanks you for your torn jeans.
My Hypercolor shirt stopped working in the 90s
A major one is the only two options being "yes" or "not now/later" when my actual answer is "FUCKING NEVER, EVER AS LONG AS I FUCKING LIVE"
I am constantly shouting "Leave me TF alone!".
That said, using the phrase 'I shit you not' when talking about a litterbox is pretty good.
US grocery stores are 100% ridiculous
(Maybe this is a boomer complaint but I’m a millennial so I’m claiming it)
Humans have excellent physical sensory skills and we’re just not using them to make our lives easier anymore
...and probably FROM having never earned a living wage, honestly.
And here we are complaining about the same thing. Nobody likes this development.
No better feeling than going "curse you Reagan" with the secretary of my psychologist standing next to me solemnly nodding and smoking.
Video is for long form productions and how-to demonstrations of complex actions. Stay in your lane.
bunch of morons printing their own trading cards and pretending they're money, it's literally just making bubbles and then Ponzi scheming why are people taking this seriously why is this a whole industry why do I have to hear about this shut up shut up shut up god fuck
"So it's like... Fake money... Ha! they'll make anything these days... 😂 😂 😂"
Cryptocurrency: literally manufacturing scarcity itself in order to create a market.
Everything that the internet can do has been worsened and weakened by making it a more efficient advertising space to the exclusion of all else; there is no profit in giving you good searches and crazy profit in letting people buy your results.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-stop-any-application-from-stealing/fef50f7f-6b6c-4488-87b1-449126ab2b73
It's very funny 🤣
Family values! Times 3!
Also, bring back political accountability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump&oldid=1270672667
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse
Wait.
I mean, and the Zune!
Mine still works. We have to stop abandoning what works
But I do like that they allowed music videos to be switched on/off, so I can play it on my TV without needing to watch so many adds on YT 😅
I was able to copy all my music a few months back on to a new Android phone. I then installed an app that plays local music and doesn't know squat about streaming, and just plays what you want from your files on the device.
(Still a chunky phone but no streaming sub required)
(That, and the way Macs handle menus)
i spent the morning organizing a few more albums in my library
yes, the album is an art form worth considering
Hyper focus on Photo Realism, microtransactions to recuperate money being spent, chasing the trends, a lot of these lead to layoffs.
Ended up having to just hang up on them cuz they were max level angry, and I was done.
How do you motivate yourself for the day? “Maybe today I’ll finally create an experience so frustrating app installs go up.”
Or their task masters don't see a need
Cool story though.
and their insistence that I have to be logged in for a thread that is 'not yet rated' >:(
Audio content production is a skill and an art, and 97% of podcasts just don't have it.
However yeah all their families joined the app with them.
VIBRATORS.
REQUIRE!
~A PHONE~
~*~APP~*~
🔪
I don't think I've ever in my whole life seen one that can *only* be run with a phone app.
So ' forced' isn't the right framing.
I miss message boards, PHPBB, Forums, etc. Facebook/Twitter/Etc ruined the true feelings of communities.
Side tangent, I am not sure who these people are who "don't want to work," but I have not met them or think they exist