What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years
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.
Single player modes in games shouldn’t require internet connection.
That fact that’s considered a boomer take makes me sad
Exactly this
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…
I agree, but from a !piracy perspective
I’m always on the hunt for self hosted/open source solutions.
It was totally uncool to remove the headphone jack from my device, man.
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.
At least we can get USB-C headphones and use the charging port as a headphone jack.
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
Wireless charging?
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).
Inefficient, over priced, less reliable
Cars shouldn’t be loaded with user-facing technology. Bring back analog dashboards and buttons for climate control!
I just want to be able to adjust the stereo without looking away from the road. Is that too much to ask?
Interesting fact: I just got a new ev (so a battery hooked up to a computer with wheels) - and it has buttons! It also has dials for sound and climate.
Now to be fair it also takes interacting with a touchscreen to turn on the heated seats, but I’d say it’s progress in the right direction.
What EV did you buy?
Iconiq 5. I can honestly say I really enjoy it (and I’m not a car person).
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.
I hate the touch screen climate control, especially when’s it’s cold and it takes the touch screen awhile to get started…
I totally agree, its left me overly commited to keeping my 2009 civic running. I love its controls and lack of complicated ui or os.
GIVE ME BACK MY DAMN 3.5MM HEADPHONE JACK ON MY PHONE!!!
This but with SD cards
User replaceable batteries
Rip my LGV10. May you bootloop in peace
I’ve been voting with my wallet on this one for years- no headphone jack, no purchase
It’s becoming super difficult now to be honest. I think I’m about to bite the bullet this weekend and just get a usb-c to 3.5mm adapter although it pains me deeply.
What phone do you use??? I’m looking at the S23 at the moment but I’m still on an S8 lol
I’m on a Sony Xperia 10 IV now. Amazing battery life, decent for one-handed use, has a headphone jack, SD slot, and meh camera. Mostly solid overall- agree the situation’s getting worse and worse every year
I remember switching to Android because you could replace the battery and expand storage, and those were huge selling points. But now my phone has none of those things. Although I guess a lot of stuff is in the cloud.
No question, removing swappable batteries was pretty brazenly consumer-hostile.
One of the main reasons I’m 100% on board with stuff like the Pinephone, at least in theory (just wish Linux phones were actually ready to be used as phones… maybe in another couple of years).
I know it had its issues but I was pretty sad that the LG G5 sort of compromise where you got the removable battery while still not “looking cheap” never really went anyway.
Xiaomi Redmi10. Cheap and has a 3.5mm.
Amen
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.
I DO NOT WANT MY TV TO HAVE A FUCKING CAMERA OR A MICROPHONE
We need electric vehicles with the interiors and exteriors copied from consumer cars from the 90s.
Like that Hyundai concept? That thing was rad. I’d drive the hell out of an EV that looks like an AE86.
Oh man, I had never seen those concept cars before, literally EXACTLY what I want in a vehicle lmao
I think that one is pretty popular. Popular “smart” products are usually only smart to and make the manufacturer some extra scratch after sale.
And car touchscreens are either disliked, considered a status symbol, or considered necessary in order toobtains another feature. Very few people actually like them.
Car-ware is the absolute worst. I remember reading an article on Hacker News 10 years ago saying they should just be a blank canvas that our cellphone decides what goes on it.
100% agreed.
Like, cram android onto an underpowered SOC and it’s just incredibly frustrating to use.
I have three:
- They don’t make things like they used to
- We don’t need all these damned computers in everything
- Modern music sounds like crap
I’m 17.
I think two out of those believes stem from survivorship bias. You think of old music and consumer products as superior because the only ones that “survived” are the good ones. No one remembers bad music from 50 years ago, and for every old thermos flask/blender/knife that you see around there are dozens that broke years ago.
There was song from the 60s (supposedly the best music everyone tells me) called “7 little girls”. The chorus went “7 little girls sitting the back seat kissing and hugging with Fred”
Thankfully a mostly forgotten song now, but a clear example of how bloody awful pop music is not a new phenomenon.
That’s fair.
I say yes for the music one, maybe not for the first. There are literally different materials being used and increasingly optimised-for-profit-to-effort-ratio processes. Many things are just straight up made more cheaply because we have the technology to do that.
Although for the music one, a relevant lyric comes to mind:
Hip hop? Buddy, don’t get me started
So how do you get yourself charted?
Kids love this stuff 'cause it’s so new
Put in a sample from a pop song too
You’ve got a hit, how come it sold?
The melody and it’s 30 years old!
Hip hop is pretty mainstream now but it started as counter culture. And I don’t think a sample in a song makes it similar to the sampled song. A lot of tracks that rely on samples completely create something new. Look at J Dilla who relied almost entirely on samples. His music isn’t a collection of old songs, it’s entirely new songs. I guess this thread is for boomer takes.
Or the Prodigy, who relied almost entirely on samples yet made some of the most exciting music we had ever heard.
My theory on the first one is that it’s usually hard to make things cheap and consistent, so it often starts off as bad, then good but expensive, and then trends towards and past “good enough”
Modern music is fire when you know where to look but I’ve always felt like pop music has been taking a very slow weird turn. It seems like 1970s and earlier it was mostly good, and mostly good after, but at this point I’m just confused
Sneaker culture is incredibly weird. Shoes made by children in China with a limited edition color are in such high demand that there are sites where people refresh F5 constantly hoping to have the honor to pay hundreds and hundreds for shoes that cost $7.50 to make. Then half of the time people won’t even wear them outside, they’ll put them in a bag and change shoes when they get to work or whatever. Or some might not even wear the shoes at all and just display them.
I’m an old soul in this sense. I love a quality goodyear welted shoe, and made in USA, UK, or Italy usually. An Allen Edmonds strandmok is a fantastic everyday shoe for me. I like to purchase nice things in general, use them, take care of them. I really hate throwaway culture as well.
Please nobody hate me for this, I’m a bit self conscious being an admin of my own instance and don’t want to piss people off haha. If you’re into gym shoe culture that’s awesome. If I knew you in real life I’d probably make fun of you for a minute if I saw you walking outside in socks carrying your $400 limited edition sneakers, but then you can make fun of me for one of the thousands of things I do and it’s all in good fun.
old soul
Pun intended?
I don’t think you’re alone in that. I don’t even think it’s a thing that makes you sound older. That’s a niche hobby that some folks have like collecting miniatures.
I unserstand miniature collectors more than sneakerheads. There are only so many variations of sneakers but almost infinite miniatures of whatever
Digital privacy is important, and it’s important to be anonymous on the internet
I feel like this could go either way whether it’s a boomer opinion or not. Real boomers are not very tech literate and probably don’t have much of a notion of online privacy.
On the other hand for those that were adults in the early years of the internet, they likely think we’re all giving away too much of our private information.
Boomers (my parents’ generation) were telling us 90’s kids how dangerous it was to put your information online, but then it seemed once social media happened they all forgot about such privacy concerns entirely. They were right the first time!
You’re right, i guess i am mistaken
- The internet was way better before it became a giant shopping mall.
- Those cars that don’t have the flecks in the paint look like children’s toys.
Then, I have a couple that pre-date even boomers by many years 😅:
- Handkerchiefs kick the shit out of paper tissues.
- Cars have made the world a worse place.
I shouldn’t have to subscribe to software. And I have only made one exception due to the exceptional functionality of the product.
99% of software asking for a subscription isn’t exceptional and could be done as a stand alone item.
I bought FL Studio back in 2017 and have received free updates since then.
Meanwhile, most other software companies: “nooo, you can’t own the software, you have to pay for a subscription and you can’t keep using it when it’s over! Also if you want updates you have to pay for the premium subscription”
(this comment is not sponsored lmao)
The only exceptions I can think of are streaming services that simply couldn’t exist as standalone one-off products (Spotify, Netflix etc). But yeah, there’s no logical reason something like Photoshop should ever require more than one transaction.
You should be able to repair your own things, without too much money and effort
Right to repair for life!
CLI > GUI on PC.
Thank you for your correct opinion.
I’m ready to die on this hill!
Truer words have never been spoken
Sure, if you live and breath the same tools 24/7.
I like the concept but feel like an idiot everytime I have to google “How do I [insert simple task here]” because I can’t remember the syntax, where a GUI would handheld me in a much better way through finding back what I used to be familiar with.
I do -h or --help in those cases. Usually, this is enough.
What’s CLI
Command Line Interface
Gui with keyboard shortcuts is the right mix of efficient and approachable imo
Alcohol is toxic, carcinogenic garbage and we’d be noticeably better off if everyone voluntarily stopped drinking it.
Nah, all boomers drink beer. You sound like Zoomer.
Technically I’m not, but fair point
Anecdotally, this is a position I’ve seen held more often by young people than by boomers. Not sure what the statistics are exactly, but regardless it would be nice to see a cultural shift away from alcohol.
I think that’s a more modern opinion. Maybe the religious boomers want tight legal controls on alcohol but the youth today are more into weed than alcohol from my experience.
True, or maybe I’ve actually gone too far back to the pre-boomer era with this one
