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Using a phone exclusively.
I don't get how people will do all of their business on a tiny phone. Like anything that needs more then a few sentences of typing, I'll go to my computer to do instead, same with filling out forms.
Same goes for phone gaming. Touch controls are always ass.
Same.
I do find myself using my phone a lot more than I used to - all my Lemmy activity is on my phone, and most of my messaging is too. Those are things it's very convenient to have in my pocket. But I could not survive without a laptop.
Any sort of actual task, be that shopping, banking, research or general browsing, is all far better there.
Trying to do anything involved, like compare and buy car insurance on my phone, feels utterly crippling - as if I'm operating at 20% efficiency, and I can feel my fingers burning with frustration at how much quicker I'd be with a keyboard, trackpad, and decent multitasking.
Big purchases require big screen. I have spoken.
Anything over 50-100€ is not getting bought in a phone.
Literally everything that punk and grunge tried to warn us about in the 80s and 90s regarding corporatism becoming reality and everyone being okay with it as long as they have shiny new toys to play with every year.
Everything constantly getting worse at an accelerating rate.
Like I've not been hopeful since about 2006
People in this thread are answering the picture of a reddit post....
Yeah it's supposed to be sarcastic responses only. I was coming here to say "My age, apparently."
The fanatical rise of facism, racism and mysoginy
I keep getting pulled back to the manic street preachers song, if you tolerate this, your children will be next
Not exactly new
"Create an account to continue" being considered normal for everything.
They're so certain they even dropped the "please" at this point.
Also you need an app for even the most basic things
Yeah, app-gating is something I struggle against.
App-controlled appliances are absolutely one of my pet peeves. I would much rather prefer an analog knob.
We still have zero app-controlled (or internet-capable) appliances and I hope to keep it that way forever.. though I'm starting to worry that maybe in the future we won't have much choice.
Yeah, I still opt for the 'lower-cost' options when buying appliances. There is always the used market, so by the time I must but one I'll probably have a strategy ready to go.
Maybe I'll have an old phone I'll put on a separate vlan WiFi with a special account just for that. A service account, if you will.
There were plenty of "log-in to view this image/link" back then. Some forums still do that abuse.
I fucking hate forums that do this shit.
Normies on the internet.
It used to be exclusively nerds, geeks, freaks, and weirdos.
I miss those days 😮💨
People using their actual fucking name on the internet.
That the internet is not a good thing.
Twenty years ago, even some more, the internet was something that brought me hope for humanity: A democratic network of knowledge open to anyone for both participation and access. I truly expected this to improve the lifes of those in less fortunate countries and backgrounds, and help reduce conflicts between people by understanding each other.
Yeah, a bit too much "we are the world", but you read about the pioneers of the internet and this was a shared belief.
Turns out it was like Cyberpunk, but like boring.
Yup. The Internet was going to demolish barriers and let people communicate mind to mind without prejudice. We were going to democratize information and science, put the power in the hands of the people, and put an end to pointless conflicts.
Far fetched? Sure. But we should never forget what they stole from us. The most complex and powerful machine humanity has ever created, a collaborative project built in the spirit of cooperation and empowerment, is being monoplized and exploited so some high functioning sociopaths can get rich.
This is a really upsetting thing.
I grew up with "not everything on the internet is real" but it seems all the people that told me this forgot it.
I was promised access to the whole of human knowledge, but everyone ignores it because we've been trained not to read critically.
I remember watching the Arab Spring unfold. Twitter being a guiding light through the darkness for so many people whos government tried to control available communication.
Such high hopes for people back then.
Occupy Wall Street and Me Too, also. I thought we were headed in the right direction. Fast forward... We got this.
It's more of a billionaire nazi propaganda problem. Imagine if they bought up the newspapers and tv stations and there was literally no alternitive
That's exactly what happened in Hungary, Slovakia, Russia... terrestrial news stations and papers all have people at the helm that have ties to their government.
I don't think it's much different in the US either.
Yeah now-a-days the internet is a surveilled corporate hellscape. People in power are trying to make it moreso (age verification, war on encryption, etc).
Trump elected a second time
Holding a mobile telephone horizontally in front of yourself and shouting at it, then moving it to the side of your head, holding it sticking out from your ear horizontally to listen to what the other person says... instead of just holding it in one place to do both, like a telephone.
Return of nicotine addiction of the youth.
Latest trend besides the god damned vapes: nicotine-infused toothpicks the kids in 7th grade are casually twirling around their mouths during class.
Answer's easy though. Signing up to advertisement delivery platforms, wether it be TikTok, or YouTube or even Amazon Prime with comemrcials.
Basically everything on the internet now we would have called “spyware” before 2000…
Nothing. I'm thirty, not retarded.
LOL! I know the feeling. Am 61 and no "modern" things phase me.
Coal rollers. The active embrace of our collective demise.
The one and only time I encountered one was when I was in my WRX with my newborn in the back. Blew black smoke in front of me on the highway at highway speeds. Sped through the smoke because WRX, had a half empty frappucino bottle next to me and whipped it out the window at the laughing passenger, catching him in the forehead. WRX was too fast to know what happened after that.
I'm no longer friends with MySpace Tom.
Yeah, fuck that smug bastard off living his best life travelling round the world taking photos after extracting a ton of money from Rupert Murdoch.
Nothing, who do you think taught them how to do it?
Fascism.
I mean the question stings a little but ultimately times have changed quite a bit since the 90s. And I'm 30 so that's all my last century reference. Genuinely one I didn't expect is so much stuff like fashion, music and whatnot from my childhood being this popular among today's teenagers. Also people used to be more considerate using public transport. Listening to music on speaker was almost unheard of and now it happens all the time around me. Oh and restaurants with qr code only menus can piss right off.
What in the FUCK is with the lack of basic consideration for others not wanting to hear your phone on public transit?!
Genuinely one I didn't expect is so much stuff like fashion, music and whatnot from my childhood being this popular among today's teenagers.
The resurgence of the mullet is simply not acceptable. It was terrible then, it is terrible now. You look like a moron.
Oh, no...I'm old...
Young sailors and officers I trained are now in the process of training even younger sailors and officers.