Menus at restaurants are to be printed not via a QR code and a shitty website.

I prefer calling people to texting them.

But I also don't like being called.

I guess those are my two wolves.

I prefer buying stuff in stores rather than online. I need to see it physically before you scam me.

Edit: my back hurts

I genuinely think you should be able to get a job interview by walking into a business and introducing yourself with a firm handshake

writing a billion versions of my resume with matching cover letters and manually inputting all the information already on my resume into individual application forms and then getting rejected by AI screening scripts is making me wish i was dead

I miss physical buttons.

In person interaction is infinitely superior to anything done online. "Meeting" people online just doesn't hit the same, even with video calls.

The kids' new slang is fucking stupid. My son last night was excited about his skills in the game he was playing and told me he was " cracked " ... cracked?

Man, like, I know we used " bad " to mean good, but come on. Cracked? Cracked is a crazy person. Cracked is how we pirated computer games. Cracked is your engine block after you poured cold water in an overheated car.

This is even stupider than " crashing out " meaning you threw a temper tantrum instead of falling asleep after an up all night acid trip.

I fucking hate it.

...i expect institutions to protect me...i call my representative and senators and get platitudes...i keep calling...

I avoid smart home type shit

I'm often slow to adopt new tech. Unless that tech actually demonstrates a benefit to me, I don't really want to deal with.

A lot of this is due to cynicism regarding things like privacy/security, planned obsolescence, and enshittification. I also don't want to adopt something that is then discontinued ("unplanned" obsolescence?), so I often wait until something becomes well-established.

I'm constantly ragged on for still calling remote controls "the clicker".

I often reference my younger years in the late 1900s about how It was this or that. "Back in my day in the late 1900s" kinda thing

I get annoyed when the price tags are too small to read

Being older that some people, which is apparently what 30% of people call a "boomer"

I refuse to use overly smart devices. Yes, I have a few zigbee light switches and thermostats that are controlled by a local HomeAssistant installation but why would I want to by my fridge, dishwasher and toothbrush to be connected to the internet?

I don't like "smart" features, I hate being forced to create accounts for everything, I want my data to only be local, I loathe smileys, I'd much rather talk to you face to face, I don't know wtf is an app and why yours is just a wrapper to your webpage, pure html pages with terrible colour choices are fucking class, I say "hacker" to mean "hacker" and not "cracker", I still don't understand the success of tablets, and you look like a dick with your mini doomscroll machine on your wrist.

EDIT: fixing rage induced typos

I've never used Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok. I'm trying to get away from Facebook currently. I've successfully dumped Twitter, which I hardly used anyway. I only use YouTube because I can still block all ads, but if they ever force ads into my videos, I'll drop it in an instant.

I've never cared for social media except as a way to stay in touch with friends and family, and maybe a way to meet new friends. But modern social media is just garbage content pumped into your feed constantly for clicks and reacts.

The only reason I haven't let go of Facebook is because almost everyone I know is still there. If I dump it, I lose contact with 90% of my social group. I don't really use Facebook anymore though, except to contact people.

EDIT: On a related note, I don't believe children should have electronic devices. Maybe around 10 years old, they should be allowed to carry a locked down phone or something, so their parents can reach them, but they can't browse the Internet or send photos to people, etc.

It was around 2010 or so when I first saw a friend hand their iPad to their 1-yr old to keep them distracted. That was a $600 device! Which was a lot of money for a personal electronic device back then.

As an IT professional who had to fix electronic devices all the time, I mentioned to my friend that a child probably shouldn't have unsupervised access to an iPad, and they told me that's why it has a thick padded case; a lesson they learned when their first iPad got cracked by the child. So the baby broke a $600 iPad and they bought another and handed it back to the kid?! Sheesh...

Dear god there doesn't have to be an app for everything.

Make a website and if you really want an app-like experience, make a damn PWA. No, I don't want to download your terribly optimized, huge app to get a receipt...

I'm sorry, but to get my UK ETA for traveling for work I had to download an app that I will literally use 1 time in 2 years because it is valid for 2 years. It could easily be done with a PWA.

It is not more secure, it is less secure for the end user as apps have been caught many many more times stealing data and being malware compared to a web page where you generally have to download malware.

Sometimes I look old just by the way that I touch the screen of my phone. Wtf.

My joints sound like stepping on a box of Ritz crackers. Does that count?

I think 99% of tattoos look like shit.

Owning a house

About every 20 minutes or so, I say "That's how they get ya", while looking up something on my 5-years-out-of-date "smart"phone that can't download any new apps.

The one time I got called a boomer online was because I didn’t understand why artists have “eras” now instead of just albums. I think at the time an artist removed all posts from their socials and the comments are “new era coming soon?” And I asked if that just means they’re dropping a new album

Stop recording everything in your life.

I call people on Teams rather than ask if they are available.

I'm grumpy as fuck

Cooking only from scratch no factory products. Meat also only from the butcher and not supermarket. I know where the butcher gets his meat from. And wanting to learn how to do lots of things myself to be self reliant, less wastefull, enviorment friendly and its mostly cheaper. Dont need no smart toaster!

I've gone away from plastics and only use natural materials, perferable renewable. If something is damaged i can just repair it. Creating less waste, saving money, and the objects have a personal touch and story to it over time.

Leather instead of artificial leather And yes i am building my PC case out of wood and glass if i need a new one

I thought dinasours were killed by a volcano instead of meteor for years.

Don't lower AC below 68 during the Summer. Don't crank the heat past 76 in the winter. We got a drafty house but it doesn't need to be a summer atmosphere when it's 20 degrees outside.

Also don't run the water continuously while doing the dishes. That one was beat into me as a kid. Watching my brother and his baby momma leave the water running when they're cleaning baby bottles turns me redder than a boiling lobster. Doesn't help that Mom got us all together and said the water bill went up almost 100 since the baby was born. Took everything in my body to not point at those two like a dog snitching on his friend.

I still avoid online dating no matter what. Also, I don't take dick picks. Not that I have any dms that would solicit that anyway, but I also just don't do that. There was a major breach for one of the popular dating platforms recently and similar to that, some dude in OZ land setup an evil twin WiFi at airport and managed to grab a bunch of naked photos from people's online activity. Just don't do it guys. It's not worth it. Just go somewhere ffs and bang someone.