Mum was moaning about this last night reminiscing about the good old days when the act of writing actually involved writing instead of whatever the kids duct taping emotes, memes & comic sans to some predictive text via a spellcheck on the socials for points clusterfuck is going on these days.

A friend had had the gall to send a birthday card that had rather clearly been ordered online and shat out of a production line with fake handwriting...the ultimate insult.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

I couldn't believe that was a service that actually existed when I first got one.

Like, as if buying a greeting card weren't already the bare minimum someone could do, let's find a way to put even less care and effort into it.

I generally dislike greeting cards. My wife and I have decided not to exchange them anymore (birthdays/valentines/anniversary). Her brother and sister have a cool tradition though, they get each other the wrong greeting card for each other's birthday. Last year my SIL got a bris card, and my BIL got a quinceñara card.

[–] Erusset@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours ago

My wife and I have been having our kids just make cards for occasions, sometimes recycling parts from old cards, but mostly just don't do any cards anymore.

[–] miked@piefed.social 5 points 18 hours ago

that sounds fun

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My birthday was just over a week ago. My mother sent a hand written note, in cursive. It took a good 30 seconds to remember how to read cursive...

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 7 points 15 hours ago

I'm reading a 3 A4 pages from my 12yr old at the moment, the mid point of his current post-apocalyptic world building wants feedback.

It's 95%+ early years test compliant script, but cool to see the words come alive on occasion and become art that goes beyond what fonts can manage.

UTF-8 O not really a drop in replacement for the Ensō