Unless it’s a service animal, I don’t like when dogs are in public buildings. Tired of trying to buy food at the grocery store but having to dodge dogs and avoid stepping over their leashes. This anger is mostly directed at their owners as I’m skittish around dogs I don’t know.
Clothing without logos on it is better than clothing with. I don't want to be a damned billboard.
is this boomer shit? i absolutely refuse to wear logos unless that shit is free
I'm gen-x. Growing up through the eighties, you were an absolute fucking outcast if you didn't wear brand sneakers. Could be that a lot of us look back at that in disgust now.
I just bought six single-color shirts with no logos on them for this very reason lmao. My dad got me a bunch of shirts that say stuff like "AMERICAN PATRIOT 9/11 NEVER FORGET" and they've sat unused in a drawer for years at this point.
My never forget 9/11 shirt w the 11 as the towers and one of them exploding around a crying bald eagle is my favorite shirt ngl
I just bought six single-color shirts with no logos on them for this very reason lmao.
what color(s) are they? every last one of my shirts is a solid black t-shirt with no logo. lol
I know I need a little bit more variety, but I am comfortable wearing them
:grillman: that I know are more than happy to have logos that they want to identify with.
i've done this since middle school. i wear nothing but single-color tees lol
One time I went to olive garden and there was a big screen in the middle of the table advertising games I would have to pay $1 to play. Totally harshing my dining experience man.
This actually reminded me of a 2nd boomer take I have. How every company under the sun has an app now they really try to force you to use. From concerts to fast food.
Like no, I'm not downloading the Chipotle app,
I'll wait in line with :grill-broke:
The shittiest part of having an electric vehicle is the bazinga carving of the charging commons.
Just about every charging station in town has its own bazinga app and expects space on your phone. :capitalist-laugh:
Is that what those Tesla parking spots are for? I always thought it was just :free-real-estate: for my ancient Honda.
love to see that real world companies are getting on the microtransaction train, death to America
QR codes are obnoxious to me in general. They have so many coercive implications: "you will bring your phone everywhere. You will constantly agree to give out your activities and identity everywhere you go to make the corporate surveillance state easier to maintain. Every waking moment will involve waving your phone around." :so-true:
I’m torn because I hate touching disgusting looking menus before eating but my phone is probably covered in fecal particles :shrug-outta-hecks:
yeah you scan a QR code which brings you to a shitty webpage with ads where you can look at tiny text on your phone
I use neither! We look up the menu together on the living room TV before we go out, and everybody in the family decides what they're ordering in advance. In this way we maximize our socialization time at the restaurant and avoid impulse purchases.
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... this may also be because our family is a menagerie of autism, ADHD, and every related neurodiverse condition you can imagine. The jury's still out on that one.
Forcing people to do uncompensated labor, such using smart phones or the internet to make medical appointments and fill out a ton of forms, make payments, and/or self-check out is bad.
Touch screens in cars are bad.
The internet (especially mobile internet since about 2012ish) is bad.
Most modern software sucks, usability has gone backwards. I blame Apple (and Microsoft following them). I use Linux, have for years, Libre Office needs some serious front end fixing, it's been bad since it was star office.
Give me back my MTV.
So hard to find a car without a touchscreen nowadays as they are so much cheaper to build.
Mazdas, they have a screen but it's all controlled through a tactile knob
Iirc most German cars had no touch screens as recently as 2017 but then people wanted Apple Airplay and Android Auto so all the players switched over.
I blame young people always needing their smartphones.
Not that smartphone connectivity isn't useful though...
The only thing I use smartphone connectivity for in my car is to connect to my remote Plex server for audio and for weather updates/alerts when driving long distances.
I never text/phone while driving, and I rarely if ever use map apps.
Looking at the new VW bus coming out, but it has a big center screen as well :(
https://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/id-buzz-microbus
PlexAMP is a feature if you pay for it.
It is like WinAMP was back in the day.
Apple Airplay and Android Auto are the alright type of touchscreen. It can be much worse (Tesla).
Mandatory "smart" cars are burning the planet down just a little faster because of all those extra materials required.
Touch screens in cars are bad.
:this: It's just as bad as using a smartphone and takes attention away from the road. Tesla sucks especially with this, because with the Model 3 they just took away all controls, buttons, and dials, and threw in an expensive, shitty, unergonomic touchscreen instead.
Forcing people to do uncompensated labor, such using smart phones or the internet to make medical appointments and fill out a ton of forms, make payments, and/or self-check out is bad.
Key word is forcing. Often these things are far faster and more convenient than talking to a person, even if it might technically count as doing free labor. However, replacing humans entirely with these things is awful and invalidates any degree of convenience gained. If the online/mobile/self-serve system works, it's a time and energy saver. The moment there's any friction, I better be able to talk to a human being who can solve the problem.
The ideal mix, imo, is to have a self-serve solution that works in 95% of situations, with an actual human available to handle the other 5%. If I have the option of talking to a human then I'm not mad at the idea of self-service. The general attitude lately, though, seems to be that if you can service 95% of situations with a self-serve solution then the other 5% don't matter, and those people can eat shit.
I swear online scheduling is completely fucked. Trying to get dental consultations online put me a month out at two different places. Called them up and had appointments within the week. So protip, call for that if you're mentally able to.
Yea, but you only got that opportunity because most people will go through the internet.
And people who need more urgent help tend to call more often, so in a way it's actually advantageous.
I made an appointment online and it was in more than a month, but internet info said I should somewhat-urgently get medical attention (not yet emergency) and was in great pain. So I called and told them and they had a spot in 2 days. So worked as intended and when I don't need the emergency attention I'm often fine with waiting a month.
Libre Office needs some serious front end fixing
inserting horizontal lines is so fucky
:jesse-wtf: how do you expect to make appointments and payments if you don’t… make appointments and payments
Schedule via a phone call, fill out the paperwork at the office, go to exclusively to Aldi and let them check me out because they are so freakin awesome, etc.
pretty much everybody between the ages of 17 and 45 has tattoos now. almost none of them are worth seeing. not yours though, the person reading this. yours are compelling, aesthetically interesting, and make you stand out as an enchanted, artistic poet in an roiling ocean of mediocre strivers, scratching to express their timid hearts to everyone around them, but no one in particular.
Hats that say things like "women love me, fish fear me" are legitimately super funny.
Like 8 years ago a young woman came into the restaurant I was working at with a hat on that said
BLACK OUT WITH YOUR RACK OUT
I still think about that hat all the time.
That reminds me of that boomer hat from Dumb and Dumber that says, “WINE ‘EM, DINE ‘EM, SIXTY-NINE ‘EM”.
“WINE ‘EM, DINE ‘EM, 69 ‘EM”.
Sounds relatively wholesome and generous compared to typical :grillman: attitudes.
“I love Monday’s, no more nagging wife”
Picture of Garfield in a hard hat. A friend of mine ironically adopted boomer humor but he said boomers are the funniest people alive. There’s some boomer humor I love.
These hats were a huge ongoing joke in the fan community for an epic fantasy webcomic I'm into called Kill Six Billion Demons.
Yea, but anyone our age || visits hexbear.net can't percept it without going through at least 2 layers of irony.
They're trying to turn way too many things into smart devices nowadays. You get a generally very marginal increase in utility at the expense of higher cost, lower reliability, and the expenditure of Earth's finite and dwindling supply of rare earth metals.
I'm with you on this, it's also not like the device is even "smart", it's just meaningless buzzword at this point.
I don't need a smart fridge that one day will refuse to make ice because I didn't download the latest firmware and pay my $3.95 subscription fee
plus it's crazy easy to do repairs on the last generation appliances right before everything became "smart". especially stuff in large circulation like brands used commercially.
i have some used hotel washer and dryer. swap parts out for cheap (less then $40) when heater coils go or other stuff wears out.
commercial monitors (aka commercial grade TVs) have almost no smart features, extra robust components and heatsinks and sometimes you can even put in your own control board.
It is definitely a way to gain a captive consumer who has to buy into an ecosystem but also get them to constantly buy products as old ones become irreparable.
I like the idea of getting data from stuff like usage and whatnot but for it to be part of the core functioning of the thing is obscene.
"Smart" water pitchers was a turning point for me. It went from "this is obnoxious" to "fuck these assholes and their superfluous surveillance fetish."
They do it because your usage data is another potential source of revenue for them.
Technological equivalent of making every object tactical by adding a window spike to it
We can pull rare earths at higher prices from lots of places including the ocean.
We will never run out of rare earths, just cheap ones.
An honest day of dumping batteries in the ocean guarantees that in 50 years some other honest individual can make a living fishing them back out
The eels can only use car batteries! Keep that lithium bullshit out of the sea!
open source smart stuff is a godsend tho. i have a rug that connects to my wifi and heats up the floor for when i wake up in the morning. doesnt have a crazy app or anything, just a simple html webpage
Funny as fuck when these companies push updates on big holiday and then suddenly you see a deluge of posts complaining that they cant grill their 4th of July slop because their overpriced grill has a mandatory update on it first.
Though tbf, theres a big chance they didnt even update in on that day but rather these hogs just never use their grills except to show off on the holidays to extended family.
Imagining an episode of King Of The Hill where Hank is driven to give up propane and embrace charcoal due to the emergence of smart grills.
I wouldn't mind this if they didn't all suck. My ideal "smart grill" would be a little box, with some knobs and temperature probes, where I can set the "done" temperature for each probe individually. Beep beep, Steak 3 is now rare! Beep beep, potato pack is now crispy! That would kick ass.
No more touch screens. Bring analogue buttons back. I want chunky electronics with physical clicky buttons. If it doesn't need a screen- get rid of it. I have a drawing tablet with physical knobs and it's awesome.
A screen is an excuse to feed you more ads. On that note: fuck smart tv's.
Things were built to last back in the day. Get your kitchen supplies at an antique shop, tools too. Unless something had lead or uranium in it, it's probably fine and will last another 50 years.
Learn to fix things. It makes your life easier and the people in your life will appreciate you.
If you buy something cheap you buy it twice. (Edit: this applies to buying new things, not well built antiques)
Anything that works without electronics shouldn't have electronics in it.
I don't care if my new 'smart' toaster can find the theoretical perfect bread toasting average, if it needs to connect to the wi-fi it's going into the fucking trash.
online play ruined games
you used to have to haul your tower and heavy-ass CRT down to your bro's place and set up a network without the benefit of a router and if somebody called you a slur you could walk over and dump mountain dew on their keyboard
Honestly? Yeah. Like not even game play or graphics. Solely on the argument that we went from shareware to micro transactions. What a fuckin bummer.
Top selling nintendo games of 2023 are all gamecube remakes. No doubt they were better.
I need new shmups that make me want to rip my eyes out after playing just to feel something again
It's a bit too easy, though, isn't it? Certainly not eye-gougingly difficult.
Yeah its pretty easy, and the difficulty cant really be raised in a way that requires moment-to-moment skill, instead if you raise difficulty it just means less builds and less choices are valid.
I can agree with that, it's def no ikaruga. Have you tried enter the gungeon?
Only briefly. Think I made 2 runs and got to the 3rd boss, but it's been a while.
An alcohol-free arcade would be heaven because all of the most obnoxious people would be over at the barcade down the road.
My hometown has a place called the galloping ghost arcade. I think it’s the largest arcade in North America. One of my favorite places.
There's a reason +20 years later that aoe2 still has a fan base and players younger than the game is.
I agree with this for mainstream games - there was a point where they were more experimental, just because the genre conventions hadn't been entirely defined. But indies have managed to go even further than that due to their distance from investor pressure.
Predatory monetization and Skinner Box "engagement" bullshit being honed ruthlessly has made sure that that is actually true. :capitalist-laugh:
Seriously what advancements have been made in the last 15+ years outside of online play? Every open world racing game is, in terms of functionally, almost identical to the need for speed underground 2 or most wanted formula. Every on rails first person shooter campaign is just ripping off the original call of duty 4 modern warfare structure. Open world RPGs all just follow the Skyrim or morrowind model to a degree. Its all the same.
In the modern day, some Nintendo games and some indie games are doing R&D for the entire gaming industry. But any time one of those games comes up with something really good, like say Minecraft crafting, you get about fifty games that try to do the same thing much more poorly and the shitty version just becomes another mechanic to pile onto the slurry of AAAyyyyyyyy development.
The integration of specialized therapeutic language into mainstream discourse is one of the worst things about our current cultural discourse
Anyone under 25 should get 1 hour of internet access a day max, anything more is a major cognitohazard
I would amend this to anyone under 40
you aren't supposed to study Jewish Kabbalah until after 40 because it's a technology for making yourself insane (see: the movie π) but by then you've already done your bit for social reproduction presumably
by then you’ve already done your bit for social reproduction presumably
oh no
bustin' straight dust because my reproductive years are behind me and also marg bar amrika
haha yeah these days maybe we have to wait until you're drawing social security
the most social reproduction im doing is shitposts on chapo dot chat (i am old and do not recognize the new wave hexbear dot net)
Anyone under 40 gets 1 hour of internet
Anyone above 40 gets 30 minutes of internet
I didn't like radio personalities either; I wanted them to get back to the fucking music :I-was-saying:
Lol, I'm just not gonna fix the spelling and let hexbear users think what they will.
TRUE
Even streamers who I like in short doses like Hasan can't get through a fifteen minute edited video without saying the same thing five hundred times. It's suitable as background noise, but if I'm listening to a streamer I'd almost always be better off listening to music.
Typo jokes aside, agreed.
Even streamers that I would ostensibly like and/or agree with are boring in that format.
The most obvious example I can think of is Criken2. His Youtube videos are hilarious and almost evergreen (some of the older ones had some parts that didn't age well) but he falls flat when it's his face taking up most of the screen and just moment by moment tedious "parasocial" moments dragging on.
Agreed. If you're going to steam something, just fry it instead nerd
im a lil editing ho ill never understand people watching content that aint edited. smdh, do better, etc.
Put headphones on. I don't want to listen to your music, video, or game. And I definitely don't want to listen to several people's phones simultaneously.
FaceTime at home, not in a restaurant, coffee shop, or (right fucking next to me) public park.
If you smoke while walking, you will get cigarette smoke in the faces of all those walking behind you for the entire duration of your cig. Fucking don't smoke and walk.
If you need to drive, and you don't buy the smallest, most quiet car reasonably possible, fuck you. I mean, don't buy loud and/or large vehicles.
Please don't post meat images to social media. (thank you hexbear for making me realise that this was a thing)
Older people, give younger people space to make mistakes. Don't lose it when they don't do things exactly as you want it. (btw I'm old)
Wear a mask indoors.
If you smoke while walking, you will get cigarette smoke in the faces of all those walking behind you for the entire duration of your cig. Fucking don’t smoke and walk.
I think this is actually very anti-boomer, boomers tend to be all ":frothingfash: I CAN SMOKE ANYWHERE I WANT YOU FREEDOM HATING COMMIE"
Actually, I think these are all anti-boomer. Boomers tend to love eating meat and driving obnoxiously huge trucks while being way too hard on young people. Also, they usually hate masks.
Yeah, just about all the :grillman: I know are very sanctimonious about their right to smoke wherever they please and are just about looking for an excuse to rage at you.
Put headphones on. I don’t want to listen to your music, video, or game. And I definitely don’t want to listen to several people’s phones simultaneously.
Oh god this. I don’t even understand it from their perspective like dude I don’t want anyone to know what I’m listening to
FaceTime at home, not in a restaurant, coffee shop, or (right fucking next to me) public park.
Is this functionally different from just two people having a conversation in public? :soviet-hmm:
well, it's the same if they're both shouting at each other to get a mic to pick them up properly over ambient noise
I hate new iamge formats, jpg and png until I fucking die
webp is the devil, it's not even as good as flif, and there are jpeg extension proposals that would work way fucking better
To be fair, I doubt a true boomer would be able to understand any part of this comment. Any person born before 1993 can't jpeg, all they know is download virus
Hmm this movie I downloaded is only 2 MB and is a .exe file . . . Probably will play if I click it
Those were the days of IE6. That’s how you knew someone could not be taught anything about computers or technology beyond email and eventually text messaging and Facebook
People born before 1993 are the only ones who know how to use the command line.
Some of them pry downloaded jpegs on BBSes.
webp is shit from an ass, why can't I pick my download format god damn it
It’s annoying af because different programs deal with it differently like copy/paste a webp image and sometimes it’s a url and others it’s an image file
I looked into getting some music lately to DJ a little and I didn't recognize any of the format. Used to just be mp3 and wav.
Steve Jobs deserves to be exhumed and then shot again for creating Apple and now the developers use .mov for videos
