Even if vinyl is a big hit these days it’s still my old guy trait. I just bought new high tech dampener feet for my turn table.

I don’t like social media.

I don’t use my phone to pay at the POS and I refuse to do so. I will always carry around my card and use that.

1. Videos should be landscape, 4:3 preferably, not portrait.
2. When I turn on a computer, it should be ready (and pref say READY) in a few seconds, not minutes and need Internet access.
3. Email should be fully punctuated, have correct grammar and a premise, argument, and conclusions.
4. I’m tolerant on short SMS or pager texts, but if it’s used as immediate mail, all texts, IM, and social media messages should also be like #3.

My boomer trait: I don’t use big social media apps like most people my age (19). You could argue that it’s pretty common but it always comes up in conversation. I’d rather read conversations and/or engage in a site like lemmy than be concerned about how great someones life is.

My old person triat is that i dont think i owe you shit and if i ghosted you it might be for a reason.

My old person trait is that I think ‘ghosting’ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.

Sadly “ghosting” is the norm where I’m from. Sadly.

my old person trait is that i am a 30 year old caravanner

My old person trait is I think cashless-only businesses should be illegal.

My old person trait is that anything that unnecessarily connects to the internet is suspicious and leaking my info.

I DO NOT owe you a text back. If I’m not physically w you, I owe you very little in terms of interaction. I come home, throw my phone under the bed, and ignore till morning, and I prob won’t answer you then either. It’s not personal…usually.

Yeah, once. Or 732 times but at some arbitrary number you have all the right in the world to ghost people IMO.

My old person trait is that cars should have physical buttons for at the very least climate control and media.

My old person trait is thinking a family should be able to live in a house if one member has a stable job (maybe two people if both are at minimum wage).

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.

1. 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.

2. 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."

3. 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.

4. 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.