My old person trait is that I think ‘ghosting’ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.
I refuse to use subscription software. If I can’t buy it outright, I either use an alternative or take to seas.
I think that a basic lifestyle should be affordable for a basic person
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i’m gonna go one further:
i think everybody should be allowed to live a decent enough life, whether they can work or not.
I’ll go even further and say that meeting the needs of a population is the only point of having a society at all.
that almost sounds like… anticapitalist propaganda! Can’t have that! Back to your cubicle, worker #33458!
I don’t think that is an old person trait. You are just secretly Nordic.
or not so secretly, seeing as i literally live a stone’s throw from a scandinavian border
One further, and one better
Crazy how that is an unpopular opinion these days
All this automation should mean that there’s less work to do for everyone’s needs to be met. Not sure where all this scarcity came from.
As a very basic person, I agree
My old person trait is I shouldn’t have to scan a QR code for the menu at a sit-down where I’m dropping $100 on entrées. Give me a dang physical copy of the menu!
And then the QR code does not link to a menu but an app instead. So you need to install an app and allow weird permissions not related to the ordering of food for said app just to see that it only displays a static website in a Chrome custom tab.
I find it annoying too and for about 9 months I had a cracked camera on my phone so no QR worked for me, most places had a physical copy when I couldn’t or I just had to leave. Now I don’t like being difficult, but I wish I still had that excuse. I just don’t like it.
I like having a keyboard and mouse. Doing things on a smartphone is a last resort.
My old person traits are most of all posted here because I am an old person.
But I’ll add that my old person traits is that I think a living wage should support… er… living, including a place to live, food to eat, paying for services, buying clothes, getting decent public health and education, and even have spare money for your free time (hobbies, eat out, theatre, concerts, etc.).
I prefer landscape videos over vertical videos. I still remember when vertical videos were clowned on so hard that there were songs written about it. Now it’s how everyone consumes their content!
My old person trait is that I want video to be horizontal.
my old person trait is remembering that it didn’t use to be this hot in the summer where I live.
My old person trait is that none of the things mentioned in the linked image happened on accident.
They happened because capitalism doesn’t give a fuck about anything except bleeding as much money as conceivably possible out of each and every human.
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Apps allow companies to suck more data out of your device than a website, allowing them to sell more of your data and… make more money.
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Video games needing access to the internet is simply Digital Rights Management and a way to prevent piracy and… make more money. Remember, most companies view something pirated as a “lost sale,” not that you would have never purchased it to begin with. As Gabe Newell once said:
“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,” he said. “If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable."
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This one speaks for itself. Being able to be in control of the products you buy is freedom. Having products controlled remotely by a corporation is giving them carte blanche to make more money off of you.
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Removing accessible customer service means more people will just give up on trying to get their problem solved, effectively allowing the company to steal from people and… shocker… make more money.
I agree, in theory, in respect to ghosting, but we live in a society that teaches us to be isolated, and doesn’t teach interpersonal skills unless the interpersonal skill is “Fuck you, got mine.” (which is, not surprisingly, a thing about making more money.)
In other words, these aren’t old people opinions. These are “I’m not gonna let capitalism absolutely fuck me endlessly” opinions.
At least in Europe I suspect those of us who grew up before neoliberalism took over in the 80s have a different take on the normality of the whole “being treated as a mark to scam money of 24/7” thing…
In terms of piracy, I wonder how much could be prevented by having demos, like Factorio does
Demos used to be everywhere back in the day! I think they have a huge impact, because it’s a way to try to play a game without dumping all the money on it without knowing what the gameplay is like and if its actually fun.
When I was a kid, DOOM having the first episode of the game available as shareware was huge and I used to walk to my friends place after school and watch him play until he would get bored and let me play for a while.
From an old interview in 1999 with John Carmack about this very subject (emphasis mine):
Carmack: DOOM 2 was explicitly a commercial release. We sort of half heartedly did some shareware distribution with Quake, but I think the industry has almost unanimously decided that the three or so level demo is the best test vehicle.
A lot of people consider themselves to have “finished DOOM” when they just finished the shareware episode.
Funny how Steam has been making sales and events around demos for a while (called Next Fests) and some games absolutely blow up out of nowhere thanks to them.
Also some people think FF16 having a demo was some weird, oddball marketing move by Square Enix, except they have been making “try now, continue later” demos for games since Bravely Default.
Where do I sign up to buy the awards around here?
Kidding…great post, tho
That’s what the emojis are for. Unlike the shitshow most of us just came from, here it doesn’t cost real money to add a tiny picture of 🏅 to a comment.
It’s specifically capitalism driven by GDP. Capitalism is bad but adding GDP is like removing any ethic and moral compass.
- Well said, I’m going to save this for when my friends inevitably say something about it and I have to explain why the economy, expessially in the US sucks and why I might eventually leave
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My fucking back hurts. Knee joints as well. And I think socializing is overrated.
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I have a few. And I’m not even that old (mid thirties)
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People who talk on phone calls using airpods or similar look ridiculous in public, like they’re utter lunatics talking to themselves or their imaginary friend.
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people who view life through their mobile phones are unfortunate and sad. Like…why pay money to go see a gig if you’re going to view it through your phone screen? I went to a wedding last week and I was one of the very few who was actually watching the procession with my own eyes rather through a camera app.
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Not being on social media should be an accepted norm, not a fucking exception. This is an issue when dating, unbelievably.
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my old person trait is that you should keep your internet identity completely separate from your real one
Nice try, Steve who lives in San Francisco and walks their dog every day at 8:41 am.
I’ve heard people talking about not wanting global internet identities and I, having the same thought you do, don’t see how it would be a problem if you kept your real Identity out of it.
Partly because I like the idea of becoming famous but without people knowing who you really are.
That is a memorable name, I’ll remember that!
Nice try, Steve
The idea of “keep it simple, stupid” is lost. Everything, from beauracracy to apps to games to social interactions, is mired in unnecessary complexity that makes it difficult for everyone to keep up. I want a simple website with information that I need (thank you Wikipedia for upholding this). I want an airline loyalty membership without insane fine-print rules. I want to tip services based on service provided and not mess around a tablet’s interface. I want dental insurance where I’m not leaving the office with a bill that’s almost half my rent becuase they did something my insurance said in fine-print wouldn’t cover. Maybe these aren’t “old person” traits and I’m just here venting. But damn if I don’t miss when certain things were simpler.
What’s worse is something I akin to a kind simple complexity. A lot of things are needlessly complex because of a relentless drive to ‘simplifly’ to the point of paradoxical complexity and difficult operation. The classic example I was shown was a pre-internet one funnily enough. It was a radio that was ‘one touch’ operation. It had but one button. Trouble is, generally even for something as simple as a radio, one tends need slightly more control than just one button and so to actually operate the thing one had to press this one button over and over and over again to select things from a large array of potential operations and also to somehow know and memorise different lengths of time to press this one button to initiate different functions. Nowadays this idea is taken to a terrible extreme on things that get commonly labelled as ‘devices’ basically any computer that isn’t a traditional desktop ‘PC’. You’re trying to find something specific and that function is in some ridiculously obscure place behind a tiny hidden button menu that is presented to the user through use of small esoteric icons rather than words, because of a desire to remove clutter. You end up with ‘clean’ website or interface design where there’s very little in the way of navigational or important operational functions that could crowd or overwhelm the user, but also HUGE irrelevant items or logos to interact with in ways basically no one would ever desire to do, or tons of white space that does nothing. Sometimes I’m astonished because it doesn’t even work on a cynical level where you subtly funnel people towards doing the things you most want them to do on your site or app, like buying things, because the design is so poor and obfuscated that if you literally wanted to buy something or find out where a place is so or when it opens so you are even able to buy something, you just… can’t because all you seem to be able to do is follow circular links of grinning idiot stock models back to where you started on a torturous merry go round of needless frustration that benefits neither you nor the people that designed the system giving you all this grief.
I was all for this simple interface drive initially, when websites begun to have ‘mobile’ versions they were typically better than the original site and devoid of the mess that one had to otherwise contend with, but now they’ve paired everything back so far that basic obvious functions are near impossible to find or outright missing. The effect is most pronounced I’ve found in Google apps, but it’s everywhere. It makes things complicated whilst simultaneously being ridiculously dumbed down and simple. The worst of both worlds. It’s like someone took “Keep it simple stupid” and misinterpreted it as “keep it stupid, simple” . Drives me nuts.
When I buy an aplliance or something simple like a speaker I don’t want to have to connect it to the web to work properly. I want to just plug it in and use the function I bought it for.
My old person trait is that instructions do not need to be videos.
i’m a little iffy on this one… if it’s something complicated/with lots of parts like how to repair your phone screen or something i prefer the video format, but for things like how to install certain softwares i totally agree with you
if I’m reading documentation for a software library, i want that written.
cuz i can read useful paragraphs faster than how ppl talk
but if it’s something highly visual, maybe a video is better
I might end up wanting a video, but there is so much low-quality content in search results. I can click into and out of six bad sets of written instructions in the time it takes me to watch one video far enough through to realize it doesn’t answer my question. Please, search engines, place more written instructions higher up.
Can I marry you?
That was the only qualification? Nice
