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What's your boomer trait? (sh.itjust.works)

My boomer trait is that I frequently type in my password where the username is supposed to go. What's yours?

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[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago

Owning a house

[-] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't like "smart" features, I hate being forced to create accounts for everything, I want my data to only be local, I loathe smileys, I'd much rather talk to you face to face, I don't know wtf is an app and why yours is just a wrapper to your webpage, pure html pages with terrible colour choices are fucking class, I say "hacker" to mean "hacker" and not "cracker", I still don't understand the success of tablets, and you look like a dick with your mini doomscroll machine on your wrist.

EDIT: fixing rage induced typos

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 4 months ago

Agree with everything here, plus I miss cars coming in a wide variety of colors instead of just inoffensive earthy and silver tones.

[-] Squeezer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Sometimes I look old just by the way that I touch the screen of my phone. Wtf.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm constantly ragged on for still calling remote controls "the clicker".

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I eat at like 5:30 to get dinner done and beat the crowds if I'm eating out.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I'm grumpy as fuck

[-] lohky@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I can't keep up with all the social justice stuff so I just quit caring about most of it.

I think Nick Mullen vocalized it best when people started throwing the Ukranian flag in their usernames and he was miffed that he had to remember another type of "gay" again.

Liberals are out here doing victory laps about pronouns in bios while their actual rights are getting systematically stripped away.

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[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

The kids' new slang is fucking stupid. My son last night was excited about his skills in the game he was playing and told me he was " cracked " ... cracked?

Man, like, I know we used " bad " to mean good, but come on. Cracked? Cracked is a crazy person. Cracked is how we pirated computer games. Cracked is your engine block after you poured cold water in an overheated car.

This is even stupider than " crashing out " meaning you threw a temper tantrum instead of falling asleep after an up all night acid trip.

I fucking hate it.

[-] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Actually I just remembered that, even some 20 years ago (possibly more) in France, we used to describe OP characters in videogames as "craqués", which could mean "broken" or "cracked", so I was not weirded out by this one, as the meaning is similar enough.

I wonder how "cracked" came to be and whether this is one of the only contemporary instance where some French slang may have influenced the English one somehow? Probably just a coincidence.

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 months ago

I call people on Teams rather than ask if they are available.

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[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I think you should treat others with respect

except like always treat them how you'd like to be treated, not just when it's convenient for you. which seems to be the boomer way. example: boomers loooove bright ass LED headlights when they're driving behind them, but complain when they're blinded by the exact same car facing them.

so the solution is don't use those fucking headlights, right? but all these motherfuckers out here are just buying that shit up and don't see a problem with it. I nearly hit somebody last week because they were crossing 100 m before the intersection in a spot that pedestrians typically do not cross and I couldn't see shit because of the oncoming car right behind them.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Downvoted by big LED but you speak the truth.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I use punctuation for texts and IMs and I start my emails with "Hi Steve," and end with "Best regards,".

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

For the umpteenth time, my name's not Steve! /s

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[-] notsure@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

...i expect institutions to protect me...i call my representative and senators and get platitudes...i keep calling...

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I so t know why I bother doing this, it just gets me signed up to their idiotic mailing list. Hooray democracy

[-] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I often reference my younger years in the late 1900s about how It was this or that. "Back in my day in the late 1900s" kinda thing

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

I like "turn of the century".

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 4 months ago

Last century...

Last millennium....

[-] jordanpwnsyou@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

All of them. Lol. Things were definitely better 20 years ago than they were now. Kids these days, etc etc.

I also really want to separate from all of technology!!!

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I miss physical buttons.

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago
[-] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

AI will wreck your eyes if you sit too close to it.

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