For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
Arthritis, so I can predict rain with my knees.
I have several joint damaging injuries. I’ve broken my ankle, torn the cartilage in my knee, and dislocated my shoulder fourteen times - and not only are those only the joint injuries, but only those that have required surgery.
Last year, during a change of seasons, I was visiting a local diner for a takeout order and asked if they minded if I sat down to wait for my order, explaining that I was a damaged individual. They, of course, acquiesced, but then the owner of the venue asked if I noticed more pain during inclement weather.
That was the first time over about thirty years of owies that I realized my pain might be correlated with barometric pressure.
I have opinions on my lawn and your proximity to it.
My old person trait is being 72.
You! The only person on Lemmy older than me!
If it isn’t done by 10:00 am then it isn’t getting done.
My age 😁
I absolutely hate AI.
Is this an old person trait? Consider me a curmudgeon then.
Anything invented before you turn 15 is just how the world works.
Anything invented between the ages of 15 and 30 is revolutionary and groundbreaking and you should pursue a career in it.
Anything invented after you turn 30 goes against the natural order of things.
At 39, this is becoming more and more accurate to me as time goes on. I remember telling some kid trying to pitch me TikTok when it first came out: “They brought back Vines?”
I remember giving TikTok a go and getting frustrated because it kept showing me stupid videos of kids dancing and I couldn’t find a way of searching for specific topics and I ended up rage-uninstalling it.
After I calmed down it dawned on me that the “stupid kids” dancing were actually around 18-20 years old and I couldn’t find what I wanted because I didn’t understand the UI.
I don’t think AI (aka LLMs) is / are against the natural order, I just think they are a terrible tool for work that requires thinking. And there are a lot of people, including medical professionals, who don’t care enough to verify what is presented to them. At least if I use AI generated code, I can test it.
Yeah, I use LLMs all the time for all sorts of things. Like, I’ll be working on a diy project and will think “I need a thing, and I know this thing exists, I just don’t know what it is called.” LLMs are great for that.
I would think so. Given how obsessed people have become with AI and how pretty much everyone and their mother has ingrained themselves with AI. It’s harder to find someone who doesn’t use it at all than those who do. I hate it and everything that comes with it.
Gen Z here. I think you’d be surprised to find that gen z generally hates ai slop. Specifically the slop, most people are ok with some AI use.
For llms It’s seen the same way I imagine search engines were (I was born after Google existed). People can just find an answer for their problem instead of searching for it in a book or asking someone. This can either be amazing for learning new things, or for cheating. My professors even tell me to USE ai to learn, just know how to actually use it to help learn rather than get the correct answer and be done with it.
I can’t bring myself to trust any information from LLMs that I don’t already know.
Antiques Roadshow is absolutely amazing. It’s fascinating to see some of the old things people happen to have.
Anyways, I’m at the point where I’m rewatching a bunch of old shows and cartoons I watched growing up, either through reruns or actually seeing. Mostly reruns, like how I’m currently on season 1 of The Golden Girls, a show I second hand absorbed to the point it’s one of my all time favorite live action shows period. I hope when I get old I can be a male version of Sophia.
Also, I don’t need a “smart” TV. If it can handle HDMI cables, that’s good enough for me. I’ve been thinking if I ever have to upgrade monitors or get my own “smart” TV, that I’ll purposefully break warranty to crack it open to remove any form of camera/microphone and remove anything that allows the device to connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi, or cellular data, or whatever else there is.
How it’s Made.
And get off my lawn.
I don’t know if they still make episodes of How It’s Made, but that show was amazing. Sure some things, like their episode on computers, are definitely outdated, but it’s still a cool thing to see regardless.
I’ve started noticing birds, and worse, I’ve started recognizing them.
If you haven’t tried Cornell’s “Merlin” app, I highly recommend it.
Bird watching is peaceful. I love it.
I love that app so much. My Amseln and Kohlmeisen are so sweet.
That app is awesome!
I volunteered over the summer to track birds at a plot of local conservation land. Went out there at the crack of dawn with binoculars and everything. That’s when I knew I was really getting old.
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I love shoehorns and sneeze loudly.
Didn’t realise these were old person traits but then these are also mine.
I’m ready for the sweet embrace of eternal slumber.
Involuntary groans whenever I sit down or stand up.
I refuse to use TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. I only have Facebook because 90% of my friends and family are there and it’s the primary way I stay in touch with them, but I’d like to get rid of that too.
Regarding TikTok, I was serving in the US military as an IT sysadmin when it became popular. But we discovered that the app embedded itself deep in your phone’s hardware, granted itself full administrative access to your phone, then started trickling all your data to servers in China. And you couldn’t fully uninstall it once you’d installed it once. Your phone was completely compromised if you ever installed that app.
It became a huge security risk and we were told to never use it. It was a horrifyingly effective spy tool China could use to easily collect data on us. That’s why President Biden pushed to ban TikTok in the US.
But of course, TikTok became super popular among our civilian population and they refused to give it up, which led to a lot of pushback against the ban. It never held, and now people are still using it and sharing all their private information with China.
Meta does something similar with Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp, but we at least can keep tabs on what they’re doing with your private data, since they’re an American company. They mostly use your information to build advertising profiles on you, to better catch your attention with ads. But that information could easily be used against you if federal organizations wanted to. ICE could use it to identify non-white Americans and their daily habits and easily intercept them.
Still, if you don’t want your private information being potentially stolen by these companies, it’s best to dump these programs. I don’t install them on my phone or tablet and I keep Facebook’s website isolated on my computer, since it likes to read other open windows and use those sites to fine-tune advertising data for you.
Google has turned into one of these companies that collects data on everything you do, so I’m in the middle of de-Googling my life right now. But it’s really hard because they’re embedded everywhere.
We’re living in a dark time where the only way to prevent corporations and governments from collecting information on you is to stay offline. Which is nearly impossible nowadays. We don’t get privacy in this modern Information Age. Not while Capitalism is still a thing.
Yep, I am like this too.
How do you effectively promote spyware?
Make it addictive like a drug, make it a core element of common culture, and most importantly, make it have some kind of socializing network effect that generates a knee jerk disgust in normies when anyone dares to question its widespread and regular use.
It is extremely funny to me when someone asks me to install say discord or insta or whatsapp, and I say I don’t use them for security and privacy reasons…
Then I ask them to install signal, and they say ‘I’m not going to install a whole app just for you.’
Apparently entirely unaware of, oblivious that they literally just asked me to do that.
whooooosh
Then they get angry and begin to babble on about some kind of idiot nonsense about how either I don’t know how to do digital security or how its just impossible so why try, or both.
If I mention that I literally did handle PII in corporate databases and thus do actually understand a decent chunk of cybersecurity…
They tend to become emotional and defensive.
Try to explain anything in detail to them and they have a bunch of sophomoric / dunning krueger instant retorts and thought terminating cliches, because they don’t want to listen or possibly learn anything, they want to justify their digital drug addiction.
Oh well, works as an idiot filter for me.
Suffer no fools.
that’s gonna need to be sourced.
is tiktok really exploiting phones to root them, then covertly installing itself “deep in your hardware”?
When you install TikTok, it fabricates its own independent SoC within your phone. Sometimes you can tell because the case bulges slightly, but it depends on the model.
This isn’t strictly forbidden by Android and iOS APIs (yet), but there are limitations – this most notably affects the capacitors on the new SoC which degrade quickly and can make a faint clicking noise, hence the name “TikTok”.
I don’t know the veracity of the statements about tiktok, but I do remember a hubbub back in the day about facebook nestling into parts of your phone and not being uninstalled with the app. A quick search later, and it looks like it was because it was a ‘default app’ on samsung phones. So yeah, for this I definitely want to see the proof of concept and at least some relevant info on tiktok specifically.
can confirm. my samsung phone has a “meta services” system app i had to root to yank out. they apparently had a deal to put that spyware in. i’m also not aware of a similar deal with tiktok.
Former military person, fear mongers about magic evil of TikTok tech mining everything and sending it to the scary Chinese, says that FB does the same but also claims that somehow “we at least can keep tabs on what they’re doing with your private data” (lol), while also admitting to still being on FB and using Google’s services. Not at all suspicious and incoherent I’d say.
We discovered that the app embedded itself deep in your phone’s hardware, granted itself full administrative access to your phone, then started trickling all your data to servers in China
Ok bud, that doesn’t sound stupid AF at all. This random military IT sysadmin knows this but all other cyber security experts in the world have somehow missed this crucial bit of info. And for some reason, this info hasn’t travelled up the chain through the intelligence agencies. Remarkable.
honestly sounds a bit like right wing slop.
These days I only go on facebook for marketplace and a few community groups.
When out eating and drinking, my preference is to go and order food and drink at the counter/bar, rather than install some app or give a website all my personal information before I can order.
What? This is a thing at restaurants now?
I refuse to scan a qr code for a menu. Give me a damn piece of paper
This irritates the hell out of me, especially after those malicious link hijacks in the news recently. I’d accept a url before a qr code.
The streak of white in my beard?
The fact that 75% of my media consumption is things I’ve already seen before?
I can maintain eye contact in a conversation and at no point do I want to fuck/fight the other person nor do I believe they want to fuck/fight me?
I can maintain friendships with people who do not share all of my views on things, with a select view even having opposing views?
Comfort wins over style every time, with zero exceptions?
I’m turning 50 soon, and almost all of this hits close to home. Almost all. My media consumption is as it’s always been: new books all the time. But also no TV, and I know all about a given movie from reading a few reviews, not actually watching it.
Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy a good read every now and again, but when I discovered indie films as a teenager I was hooked. Not to mention I was a classic “nerd” who liked comic books, Farscape, and BSG at a time before liking those things hit the mainstream.
I’m confused by the fuck/fight portion. Is it normal to want to fuck or fight every person who maintains eye contact? Have I been unknowingly threatening/coming into all of my work colleagues?
A lot of Zoomer/Alphagens have said in surveys that the perceive prolonged or maintained eye contact in a conversation as a sign of aggression or attraction. I was using hyperbolic language for brevity.
Oh no. I worked so hard to be able to maintain eye contact in conversations (autistic) and now I’m questioning it.
Its almost like neurotypicals just think they know what ‘normal’ body language is, when in actuality they all disagree about almost all of it, each have their own plethora of weird quirks and ideas, and its just that they assume their standard is correct, because they hardly ever consciously, actively think about or analyze body language.
Personally, maintaining eye contact during a conversation shows me that you’re actively paying attention and processing what I’m saying. I mean you might not actually be doing that, but I at least feel you are. And it’s a good sign. When I have some Alpha at work explain that bit about how their generation views that level of eye contact I audibly scoffed.
Yeah thats big ‘old man yells at clouds’ vibes.
Its not me that could be wrong, no, its the children.
Kids have different body language norms than me?
Pff, that’s stupid, my illogical feelings and inaccurate, non-universal heuristics are what’s important here.
There’s a difference between respectlfully attentive eye contact (flits to other things occasionally, but refocuses), fighting eye contact (straight staring, tense facial expression), flirting eye contact (flits between eyes and lips, soft facial expression), and autistic eye contact (direct and unwavering eye contact that drills into your soul for seemingly no reason).
Most likely, everyone just knows (at least implicitly) that you are autistic.
Why is every sentence a question? This comes off as defensive.
It’s more of a take your pick as to which of those is my “old” trait.
