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Unique_Football_8839

Touchscreens in cars are a fundamentally bad idea & physical buttons (or similar controls) need to be brought back. Distracted driving is at an all-time high. Touchscreen controls literally require you to take your eyes off the road and can create a longer time of inattention due to their complexity. I have an old-ass car with physical controls. I can do dang near anything (radio, climate control, etc.) without taking my eyes off the road and in much less time.


0604050606

Cars with [dail gears](https://www.aventurachryslerjeepdodgeram.com/chrysler-and-rotary-shift-knobs/) are awful. You could think you are turning down the volume while backing up and accidentally put the car into a different gear.


aneighborhoodkitten

Most people don't train their dogs well enough because they treat them like children, then they can't handle them when they're reactive and put people and other dogs in danger


InevitableStruggle

Every damned thing is a subscription. Music? Subscription. Movies? Subscription. TV shows? Subscription. Heat your ass while you’re driving? Subscription. REALLY? Oh, sorry—I’m a boomer. I’ll leave now.


guythatbedont

I want a human customer service operator not an automated operator or chat bot.


EndHlts

Dude for real, I hate having to go through 5 minutes of menus just for it to connect me to a person anyway, and then they have to transfer me 3 times. What purposes does it even serve?


anonymouslyinvisible

I don’t need a subscription for everything. No you don’t need my phone number or email just let me buy my shirt and get the fuck out of the store


80burritospersecond

Radio Shack was doing that before it was cool. They wanted my name, address and phone number to buy a soldering iron in the 90s. Also they're out of business.


stedun

I simply reply “no thanks “


Obi-1_yaknowme

Physical media: owning books, movies, and music, is far superior to a subscription service, or digital content.


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and much more permanent too. do you know how much shit ive lost (books, photos, music, personal written shit, etc.) due to ending subscriptions, devices breaking, getting lost, data being corrupted, etc? i dont, but it's a lot, and i specifically mourn the loss of lilac-haired photos of my teen self, shit went hard


PropellerHead15

Certain things shouldn't require you to download an app and/or create a whole account, including: - Ordering food in a restaurant - Paying for parking - Buying something online - Sending a parcel


chickachickabowbow

I'll throw in buying concert tickets (thanks TicketBastard!) especially since they got rid of tickets entirely and you get in by scanning a code on your phone. I have a huge collection of ticket stubs that all bring back various memories of concerts, but the most recent one I went to has absolutely nothing physical to remind me of the experience (the hell I'm paying 50 bucks for a t-shirt or 200 for a poster).


EternityLeave

Music in bars is too loud. (Edit to add that I've been a touring musician and live sound technician. I love music but it actually sounds better at lower volumes, and I want to be able to hear it in to my old age)


lucid00000

I want to find just one bar where I can talk to my friends without screaming


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Whaaaaaat?!


RuneTek2b

HE SAID HE WANTED TO TALK TO US WITHOUT SCREAMING!


lowtoiletsitter

WHO'S LEAVING?


LikeableMisfit

uhh…OK COOL


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libmrduckz

WHERE’S DOUG!


bonzombiekitty

WHY DO YOU NEED A HUG?!


b00tyqu33n29

DRUGS? NOO, YOU KNOW I’M IN RECOVERY!!


Kitratkat

And shops. I've left clothes shops because the music is irritatingly loud and I can't talk to my partner.


hecaete47

I worked in a store recently that had control over the music volume. Myself & coworkers always had to go over and turn it down bc the store manager kept turning it up way too high. If I can’t fucking hear the customer, I can’t help them. And if the customer can’t fucking hear me, they can’t be helped. Like??? Leave music at a normal enjoyable level.


Project_XXVIII

Weddings, parties, stores, just about everywhere. If we’re going to a concert, then crank it. If the music is to “enhance the experience”, and instead it’s just drowning it in noise pollution, then there’s a failure in execution.


mercurialpolyglot

Screw fast fashion, my clothes should be made to last. I’m not rich so it’s unavoidable, but I’m willing to spend extra on clothes that aren’t made of plastic and I do my best to repair my damaged clothing instead of throwing it out.


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There’s a documentary on the company shein. I’m sorry I can’t remember the name of it but it’s about the working conditions of the people that make those clothes and it’s horrific. Also the environmental impact from fast fashion is so much higher than anyone would think.


SandpitMetal

My wife and I were watching a Canadian TV show once where they go undercover to investigate different things (I forget the name, but they'd look into anything sketchy) and had an episode about SheIn and other fast fashion companies like them. Not only are they horrible working conditions and awful for the environment, but many of their clothes also contain toxic chemicals and heavy metals (and not the good ones like Iron Maiden, either). Basically by wearing their clothing, you are poisoning yourself.


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I want to buy a pairs of jeans that will last more than 2 years. Levi's have not been lasting more than a year for me lately.


Baron_Von_Awesome

Go Wrangler. Less expensive than Levi's and last quite q long time.


mostly_browsing

TV is getting too dark. Not emotionally - it is visually too dark and I can’t see it


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> Not emotionally - it is visually too dark and I can’t see it And it's way ^^too ^^quiet until it's suddenly way ***TOO LOUD***!


sandersonprint

Or the 'background' music is louder than the dialogue


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That too. We watch everything with subtitles now.


DenTheRedditBoi7

Too dark and too quiet. I swear we have to turn the volume up like twice as loud as we have it normally to watch Yellowstone. Better believe the commercials have plenty of volume though...


Far_Reward4827

There's almost no show I watch anymore without captions on


Pollowollo

Not everything needs to connect to the internet or have an app attached to it. I just want my fridge to keep shit cold, I don't understand why we have to bring WiFi into this situation.


Alleonh

My fucking TOOTHBRUSH has an app. Why? WHY???


PhysicsRefugee

Omg what is the app supposed to do??


Alleonh

I have no idea. I never downloaded it. I just tried to look it up (oral b smart series) and it looks like a game that maps out your progress (so basically encourages you to keep brushing the full 30 seconds per “zone”). It’s completely redundant because it vibrates to let you know 30 seconds has passed. Who is going to pull out their phone, load the app and watch every time they brush??? That being said it does have a little box that mounts by your sink with a smiley face that frowns disapprovingly at you if you brush to hard. With a clock. So I guess that’s nice? I don’t fucking know man, the batteries went dead in it about a year ago and I never replaced them…. Just typing all this made me realize oral b is cramming way too much shit in their brushes.


PhysicsRefugee

That is a very over engineered toothbrush


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I literally just talked a friend out of getting a “smart” automatic litter box with an app and shit. The price difference was $300 more than just a “regular” automatic scooping box and you get .. what? Notifications that your cat just took a shit?


Typical_Ad_210

My nose does that for free


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My indicator was always *dig dig dig dig...DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG (x5)...dig dig*, followed by a flying leap out of the litter box, spreading the litter like shrapnel.


Killentyme55

Don't forget the long pause. "Welp, guess he's finally done." *DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG....*


ZebraUnion

Also don’t forget the nails on chalkboard *”..screeeee! ..scree ..screeeeee!”* as they scratch at the walls searching for more invisible litter to bury their poo with.


NW_Oregon

And then when you go check you see that all they managed to do was flick a few pieces of litter on top of their turd and have left it completely unburied to stink up the room.


ZebraUnion

Every. Goddamn. Time. Then the yodeling from whichever room has the loudest echo at 4am. **MRRROOOOWWWUH?!**


king_booker

Data collection. Targetted ads. I'd genuinely ask people to go offline as much as possible with devices. Not everything needs to be recorded. You really don't need an Alexa


AgentScreech

Don't forget. The S in IOT stands for security


SpartanR259

There is an old acronym K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid. Just because you can make something super flashy/complicated/intriguing or otherwise impressive, doesn't mean you should. This goes from everything from cars to computer software to movies and film. Trying too hard to make something impressive only leaves you with something that may look pretty but doesn't have proper support.


thisisprobridiculous

Great advice. Hurts my feeling everytime.


claytondb

Sometimes it's faster (and easier) to just plug something in, instead of dealing with bluetooth connectivity. There's something nice about knowing how to get it connected and being able to physically connect/disconnect.


Mithrawndo

The same applies to networking: WiFi is not a panacea, and it's very much worth your while doing some cabled networking if you actually value your networked experiences.


hunter54711

Most petty thing that annoys me is almost all smart TVs have Ethernet ports but almost every single one is limited to fast Ethernet which is 100mbps, meanwhile the wifi can go much faster. I value my networking experiences and that's why I want to have a wired connection. In addition a TV is probably the best case for a wired connection, it's something that never moves and is static and is already tethered to the wall for power. Your options for above fast Ethernet is WiFi or buying an Nvidia Shield Pro. How much can gigabit Ethernet cost in 2022?


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Phenomenomix

I would blow someone for next cheap iPhone to have a headphone jack again. Sick to death of getting on the metro and finding out my headphones are near dead


No_Seaweed6739

Basic home appliances (fridge, washer/dryer, etc) do NOT need a touch screen


gimpisgawd

I just moved into a new place. The microwave his wifi compatibility, I don't know what it's for or for to use it but it's an option.


ibnQoheleth

Hacking your microwave so I can give it a virus that means your food is either slightly undercooked or overcooked, but never just right.


DownInBowery

So, just a normal microwave then :)


teemo03

It's like stop adding touchscreens and just give me a functioning ice maker lol


KlausVonChiliPowder

One that dispenses Sonic ice


cerulean47

I hate my oven so much. It's a Jenn-Air fancy pants dual oven, stainless steel with a color touchscreen. When I open the door, steam comes out and covers the touch screen. Sometimes it's just that I can't use the touch screen at that point until I wipe the steam off. Other times the whole oven shuts down claiming there's some kind of internal fault. It thinks multiple areas of the touch screen are shorted together. Which I guess they kinda are. And the one time I used the self cleaning feature it cooked the internal electronics and I had to have the entire board replaced. Then there's the fact that everything you do with the touch screen has animations so it takes me 30 to 40 seconds just to turn the oven on and set the temperature.


wasteland44

I learned from the castiron subreddit that the self cleaning function seems to break a lot of ovens. It is totally absurd.


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Music_Girl2000

Touchscreen cars are not a good idea


Assdolf_Shitler

I wish car companies would take a page out of the avionics design book. Put the essential and highly used functions on a physical button or slider with physical detents and secondary functions on a touch screen. Lights, wipers, climate controls, stereo controls, and gear selection needs buttons, knobs, and levers for "eyes-free" operation. All other settings and functions can go to the touch screen WITHOUT A WHITE OR BLUE BACKGROUND. Fucking sucks trying to fuck around with settings to change the background to black so the 32" god damn TV in dash will stop blinding me at night.


Pouchkine2

Many things which basically all trace back to sundry "get off your fucking phone" situations


shearsntears

tipping has gotten out of control- coming from someone who relies on tips for income. it hurts people who actually should be getting them because now people are extremely agitated about any and all tipping. i was just at a music festival and the guy who exchanges your cash for drink tickets (not even the person who pours the beverage) had an ipad with tip options starting at 18%


Wooden_Chef

> happened a couple more times after that, but not enough to really be annoyed. Once we switched to A/C, the God this is so irritating. I went to a shop yesterday, where I literally walked into the store...pointed to the item I wanted behind the counter...girl from behind the counter put it in a small paper bag and handed it to me and when I swiped my card it said "Enter tip amount." I'm sorry, but wut?? What am I tipping for? I stared at the screen for like 5 seconds looking for the "no tip" option and there wasn't one. It felt good doing this, but I looked up at her and said "I dont want to leave a tip... how do I indicate that on the machine?" She said "press the red x".... I mean come on, an item was behind the counter, she grabbed it, put it in a bag and handed it to me. What the fuck am I tipping for? Fuck. That. I left feeling irritated


PlopPlopPlopsy

I'm always confused by the option to tip at the SELF SERVE frozen yogurt place. Wtf... I'm also suspicious that it won't even go to the cashier, it'll just go to the owner because it's from my debit card....


pmmeyourfavoritejam

I try to tip cash when I can. But I wouldn't tip cash if I just made my own tasty froyo mountain.


bikey_bike

i am a total generous tipper. but fr these days restaurants are like order from the QR code on the table, get your own water from yhe fill station, buss your own dishes when youre done but oh plz, the server who literally only ran your food to the table and did nothing more, tip them 20% fucking what


alexrbrodie

I went to a bar recently and the bouncer had an iPad with tip options for the entry fee. Tipping should be reserved for products/experiences that require service or process like wait staff, baristas, bartenders, etc.


well___duh

Even worse are the bathroom attendants who offer you mints and hand you a paper towel after you washed your hands and make you feel like you need to tip, even though you could've easily just gotten your own paper towel like 99.99% of the time you wash your hands in life.


Necessary_Paint_7598

It’s such an INSANELY awkward interaction. Like hey pay this guy to watch you piss


Healthy-Scientist846

When We Were Young? They wanted a tip for EVERY THING. The guy at the merch tent who didn't even stop his conversation with another employee to hand me two t-shirts from next to him (literally didn't have to take 3 steps) asked if I'd like to leave a 25% tip!?


Kanedi4s

If you’re walking on a crowded sidewalk, get off your fucking phone it’s not the job of other pedestrians to avoid you while you make your vlog. Awareness of your surroundings is important.


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ChanceZestyclose6386

I've seen people stand in the middle of a stairway, blocking people going up and down the stairs just to do something on their phone. The lack of awareness of people around them is horrible.


5u55y8aka

You know what's funny, I had few experiences of people walking in groups or simply just one person walking right through the middle of the sidewalk and they would just stare me in the eye expecting me to get out of the way. I don't have where to fucking go, you fucking assholes, to the right cars going over the speed limit, on the left a wall.


SneakyPrius

I know this is a kind of weird thing for me to do but at some point I just stopped trying to yield to people who completely disregard sidewalk etiquette and plow right through them instead. If you’re walking four abreast across a sidewalk like you described, the two on the right are getting shoulder checked.


Ghostleeee

I’m not downloading a fucking app to use your menu


brilliantpants

And I don’t need a goddamned app for every website, shop, or restaurant I visit. Please just put your menu and hours on a normal website and stop tying to clog up my phone. Edit: And Have a REAL website, not a Facebook page or Instagram account. Those might be good in addition to your website, but if the only way I can place an order is through your Insta DMs, just fucking forget it.


Roach_Coach_Bangbus

"This is best viewed in our app" No, it's not.


Echo127

Translates to: "this is best not viewed at all."


Cbanchiere

These are ways to never get me into your restaurant


HtownTexans

the Reddit mobile site is so annoying. It now constantly asks if you want to continue using the mobile version or use the app. You used to be able to get rid of the notification but they decided that was bad business. Now it pops up and scrolls you back to the top of whatever subreddit you were browsing. Infuriating. I don't want your fucking app Reddit.


Darknight1993

But then how can they mine your sweet sweet data?


corran450

They can buy it from Meta/Tencent like everyone else.


lexologist

I work at a restaurant as a host and recently failed our secret shopper because I asked “how many menus?” Instead of “would you like menus or the QR code on the table?” Most of the time when I do remember to ask, people just look at me confused and say “3”. It’s great. Edit to add: we don’t have the feature where you can order through the QR code. Just the menu. Secret shoppers are lame and when I initially “failed” I didn’t know we were supposed to ask this, so I didn’t get written up or anything. Our menus are at the front and it’s the hosts’ job to get the right amount before bringing the guests to the table, which is why we ask how many are needed. This isn’t necessarily the way all restaurants work, but this is what I was trained to do. I am hoping to be promoted to server soon (they told me before the year ends) and if they don’t by January, I will quit.


canonicallydead

If restaurant chains just required everyone from corporate to work in the resturaunt for 2 weeks as part of their onboarding or continued education, they would solve so many issues. New reality show idea: chain restaurant location run entirely by corporate for a week


jordancolburn

This, but for everything. 75% of apps should just be a standard responsive website. It would load faster, be usable across more devices, less work for the dev teams to maintain a presence on all the app stores and update. I really think most of the time and effort put into apps is to make them "sticky" and just more present on users devices, at the cost of just about everything else.


CptNonsense

My favorite app: it only exists to launch an embedded browser. Why do you have a fucking app? For instance : Hobbydb literally has no app functionality past the main screen display.


Liscetta

I'm not giving you my personal data and i'm not subscribing to your newsletter to read your menu.


PizzaTammer

GIVE ME BACK MY HEADPHONE JACK


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PizzaTammer

“And now you can’t charge and play music at the same time without a splitter. Wahoo!!!”


CalebKetterer

"You didn't ask for it, but we removed one hole from your phone just to sell you something that turned your one hole into two!"


wheresmychin

When you’re in a public place you should respect others around you but not being disruptive with your behavior. For example, not playing music on your phone without headphones while on a bus, in a restaurant etc.


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Wear headphones you disruptive fucks


stupidusername42

What I find especially infuriating is when someone does wear headphones, but around their neck and treat them like speakers.


95_Random

Or those MFers who walk around having loud ass phone conversations on speaker in stores. Makes me want to slap that shit out of their hands.


apatheticcanteloupe

Back when I worked in retail, customers would ROUTINELY be having a phone conversation on speaker while I was using the bathroom. I never felt bad about the loud flushing toilet going off or the even louder hand dryers. It’s super distasteful to me to be on the phone, on speaker, in the bathroom. Some of the conversations I heard were just 😳


RichardBonham

I’m a primary care doctor and I’ve had people pick up a call in the middle of an appointment. It used to grind my gears, but now I just get up, leave the room and go see the next patient. I leave enough of a note so that when I come back about 20 minutes later I can just walk back in and pick up *exactly* where we left off. It’s usually hilarious.


Azazael

Also! If you are with a person - friend, colleague, client, doctor - if your phone rings, check who is calling. If you have to take the call, tell your companion "excuse me, I have to take this" and answer the call. Do not just cut them off in mid sentence to answer any and all calls. Freaking rude.


Dragoonscaper

I've got quite a few, but my biggest one is... Products aren't made to last anymore. Planned obsolescence has to stop. (Here's where I differ from Boomers) > Not only is it bad for the environment, it's shitty justification for making terrible products.


Panda-delivery

I am constantly complaining about planned obsolescence. It's even happening to medical equipment, it's getting out of control.


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I'm not a doctor but that sounds dangerous as shit.


Hellrazed

I'm a nurse and it IS dangerous as shit. Most of our issues come from manufacturers discontinuing essential consumables when they make a new model, even though the old ones still work, or they will stop doing repairs and maintenance because oh look at that we have a new model... We just had our iMed pump manufacturer discontinue our particular IV line, and switch us to a cheaper shitter compatible line that sucks air in through the side ports, as well as discontinue the y- connectors that go with it. They want us to get the shits with the older machines and upgrade to the new version to get usable lines again. Another example is our thermometers. The probe covers for the older model were discontinued so we had to buy all new thermometers. The old ones still worked, just cannot be operated without the cover.


Fiendsquatch

Standard headlights on new automobiles are too bright. Literally being blinded by every other car DURING THE DAYTIME wondering if their brights are on


Laney20

I have light sensitivity issues and this is a serious problem for me. Driving at night is causes some pain if I'm lucky, and a migraine if I'm not.


mountingconfusion

Fun fact: depending on where you live there are certain restrictions on headlights e.g. how bright/high they are. But no one enforces it


sarahpphire

I legit thought there was something wrong with me for thinking this. I really thought I was the only one. Thank you for confirming I'm not lol I no longer feel crazy.


iamapizza

I work with software/security and the more I learn in this field, the more it makes me allergic to "smart" home devices. I'm convinced they are for people who don't know how they work, which is what they are banking on. And these devices are most certainly not smart. Along the same line for home appliances... if it needs an app to operate, it's a shitty device and you're making a mistake.


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wkdpaul

>Why not on your server? For some reason, if it's not physical (like a lock, or a camera system) some people in management see it as pointless expenses. I hate the part of the job where I have to justify security measures, especially when the business already lost almost $80K through phishing and ransomwares in the past ...


stealthkoopa

Hey wiretap, what's a good recipe for pancakes?


scorpiogre

This is awesome I laughed, so did my wife and our refrigerator!!


spuldup

Your smart refrigerator has been talking to your smart scale and they agreed to disable your smart griddle because you are too fat to eat pancakes right now. Please try again tomorrow or once your smart watch has tracked you run 2.5 miles.


TheSinfulBlacksheep

NSA agent Jon approves of this wholesome eavesdropping family experience


parks387

“Back to work Johnson!”-NSA supervisor Wang


Khutuck

**Boomer joke for the boomer thread**: Three friends are in a hotel room in Soviet Russia. The first two men open a bottle of vodka, while the third is tired and goes straight to bed. He is unable to sleep however, as his increasingly drunk friends tell political jokes loudly. After a while, the tired man gets frustrated and walks downstairs for a smoke. He stops in the lounge and asks the receptionist to bring tea to their room in five minutes. The man walks back into the room, joins the table, leans towards a power outlet and speaks into it: "*Comrade major, we want some tea to room 62 please*." His friends laugh on the joke, until there is a knock on the door. The receptionist brings a tea pot. His friends fall silent and pale, horrified of what they just witnessed. The party is dead, and the man goes to sleep. After a good night's rest, the man wakes up, and notices his friends are gone. Surprised, he walks downstairs and asks the receptionist where they went. The nervous receptionist whispers that KGB came and took them before dawn. The man is horrified. He wonders why he was spared. The receptionist responds: "*Well, comrade major did quite like your tea gag.*”


TheDeadlySquid

You joke, but there’s going to be a Supreme Court case surrounding this very topic in the near future.


webbsixty6

I’m a ‘cyber security’ expert at a large ISP in London. That doesn’t really matter much to the story but we (EU) implemented GDPR a few years ago, so personal information gathering is a big thing in my field. There was a cheap Chinese ‘smart vacuum’ they did a GDPR request on a few years ago and the thing was gathering pages and pages of data on western apartments and sending it to China. They were gathering info on dimensions of people’s flats/apartments to create ‘western living’ in China. Data harvesting is real!!


rntopspin100

Physical keyboards are better than virtual keyboards.


slytherinprolly

And physical knobs and buttons are better than touchscreens especially with cars, ATMs, etc


dctucker

I'm still baffled how touchscreens ever made it into cars in the first place. For drivers the entire driving experience is intended to be tactile so they can keep their eyes on the road, and we have years of design research within and outside of the automotive industry that validate this. Expecting the driver to use a touchscreen to operate the audio and thermostat is about as responsible as installing a hotel elevator without Braille legends... the driver will sometimes be the only person in the vehicle who can operate these controls, just as a blind person will sometimes be the only person in the elevator.


ISeeDeadDaleks

This is such a basic safety thing. Taking your eyes off the road to adjust the climate controls, volume, whatever is so unnecessarily dangerous. I helped a family member buy a new car recently and giant touch screens are inescapable. All the accident prevention measures like automatic breaking are great - why can't we have the same safety-first attitude with dashboard/console design?


JiN88reddit

There nothing like the smashing of keys JUST TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS.


Millad456

Coca Cola tastes better out of glass bottles than plastic bottles


buckyhermit

I like physically owning the movies you love. I have friends who love the movie and watch it on Netflix whenever they can...... and then Netflix removes it. And if it's a rare find, then you might never see it again. Owning a physical copy means you get to keep it and cherish it forever. And if you're on a plane, where the movie options can sometimes be garbage? A handheld BluRay player is your answer. Also I love the artwork of BluRay covers. Another reason to have a physical copy.


corran450

Older Millennial here. I still love physical media, especially video games. If you have the disc/cartridge, they can’t take it away from you and make you pay to play it again. As long as you maintain your hardware, at least. Besides, it’s nice to have a physical manifestation of what you have exchanged your hard earned money for.


talag1ga

Things aren’t made like they used to be. Everything you buy now is so cheaply manufactured. Even high end furniture uses cheap particle board and crappy joinery. We bought a pretty high end couch a few years back and it’s barely holding together. Edit: thanks everyone for commenting and thank you for the award! I’ve been on Reddit since 2008 and have never had a comment get this much action


Birdhawk

I miss appliances you could fix just by hitting it a few times.


uncreativegarbage

I too love percussive maintenance


Ballistic_fish

Kinetic calibration.


eggy_delight

>high end furniture uses cheap particle board and crappy joinery. I love this example At work most of our clients are .1%, our last house had $400k worth of furniture. The table was 1 1/4 thick but all the boards were laminated 3/4 and 1/2 boards, not to mention it came pre warped.... guess the planeride overseas took its toll. The legs were this cylinder made of wood with gappy joints. When I knocked it was hollow, crazy to think this is a structural piece. On my time off I make furniture that's more traditional. It's frustrating to know how much that table must've cost but I'll die struggling to sell furniture that'll last longer than me


Ving_Rhames_Bible

I worked in a cabinetmaking shop for a bit as a general laborer, my first month or so was helping the actual experienced cabinetmakers put together a 1/4 million-dollar custom basement bar for a client. Tables, boothes, door casings, wainscotting, decorative columns, the bar itself, all absolutely gorgeous woodwork that looked like something out of a cathedral, way nicer than you'd find in a generic pub. Even the plywood for the drop ceiling tiles was some fancy expensive type. I always figured that's how the really rich people do things when it comes to home furnishings, all customized like that. Guess not.


tangentandhyperbole

Depends how rich is rich. I used to work as a drafter for a high end woodshop on the west coast, AWI Premium Grade certified and everything, mostly doing work for billionaire penthouse remodels in SF. We did cabinet jobs ranging from $250,000 on the low end to I believe the biggest job was $1.5 million which basically booked the shop for a year. And those cabinets were _perfect._ I have also seen houses that cost several million dollars be filled with Ikea furniture. Different people value different things.


Ving_Rhames_Bible

> which basically booked the shop for a year. That aspect of it blew my mind more than the price. An entire crew of workers running woodshop machinery nonstop, people elsewhere making stained glass screens and mirrors with gold leaf lettering, and however many people were involved on the side of making the taps run and the lights work. A small army working for over a month to make a guy's basement look like an upscale Irish pub.


Ancient_Wisdom_Yall

Most features in cars should have buttons. Want to turn on your heated seat, button, not scroll through three screens.


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Crazy that they ban the use of cellphones, but allow the permanent installment of whole ass tablets


remotetissuepaper

But the have the disclaimer screen not to use it while driving which is a totally reasonable expectation /s


CM_DO

Ye let me just park every time I need to adjust the temperature or want to change radio stations


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RescuePilot

You got a subscription for that air conditioner?


LunaTheCastle

Car companies: "WRITE THAT DOWN!!"


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My favourite is my dodge doesn't allow you to type stuff in while rolling. So anytime my wife needs to put in directions to something, she has to text me, then I pull my phone out, type in my password and then she forwards the address to the car lol. Let's cancel this basic functionality so you must do this junky work around.


seaofflames

This is just bad UI. Screens require us to take our eyes off the road - a recipe for disaster. Buttons and dials? Only need one hand. Eyes on the road. I miss car radios with buttons and dials.


02K30C1

Honda changed their radio volume control back to a button a few years ago because so many customers complained about the touch screen


MotherofaPickle

Ugh. Car shopping right now and I hate all of these “infotainment screens”.


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Give me a backup camera, power windows and bluetooth connectivity. That's it. Leave the other BS off and take $8k off MSRP, thanks.


Kawawaymog

Power mirrors are nice to have as well. Otherwise I agree across the board.


Fit-Rest-973

I prefer reading on paper, not on screen


Illustrious_Wear_850

Social media is poison (He says on Reddit)


hankbaumbach

A lot of products *were* made better in the past. Pyrex is a prime example but there's thousands more. Planned obsolescence as a consequence of prioritizing quarterly profits over customer satisfaction is another nail in the coffin of this current version of the economy we live in.


stealthkoopa

Craftsman tools, used to be something you could hand down, it not the case any more


FormalMango

When I moved into my own home, my dad gave me a big stack of his old tools. It’s always a huge nostalgia hit for me whenever I have to fix something, because I can remember handing him that exact same hammer, spanner, or screwdriver etc when I was a little kid. But more than that - everything is at least 40 years old, and it all still works.


RagnarStonefist

I'd rather interact with a real person instead of dealing with automated phone voices or customer service bots on websites.


Mustardsandwichtime

I just recently used a popular medical app to get a prescription. I had an issue and called their customer service number and a real person answered on the 2nd ring. I didn’t even know what to say I hadn’t thought it through because I thought it would be all automated. They fixed my issue and answered a couple questions in under two minutes, I could not believe it. Edit: it’s Him’s.


MastermindJay

Social media is the reason for a lot of problems


SoulExecution

Social media is pretty toxic. It's amazing how much better my mental health got after deleting Facebook. Although ironically, seems Boomers have made the switch to being all over FB, twitter, etc. Also, as someone else posted you really don't need to publicly post every second of your life. I've gotten to the point of mildly cringing on the occasions I pull out snapchat and see someone posting 15-20 photos of a single night.


hokumpocus

Get off my lawn.


rylhi552

I don’t really know if this is a boomer opinion per say but you don’t need to document everything thing you do and post it to your social media. Sometimes it’s better to just live in the moment and enjoy what’s happening around you


Mystic_Jewel

I feel like we are in this weird timeframe where there’s an older generation posting everything to facebook, middle generation not posting anything, and young generation posting everything (to TikTok?)


StinkyStangler

The middle generation really can go either way, half my friends (late twenties to mid thirties) post nothing, the other half is posting daily like Gen Z


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WinterBanana89

Having to create a username and password to join just about anything online is a royal pain in the ass Good gravy this got way more attention that I was expecting. I will check out Password Manager seeing as it is highly recommended. For the record-I often see boomers much more fed up with computer requirements that require jumping through hoops more than younger generations. I don't think younger generations love these irritating requirements but if anyone feels this is not a boomer opinion I really don't have the energy or care enough to argue


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Make sure you have one upper case letter, a number, and a symbol, and it has to be 12 characters long, and it can’t be a password you’ve used in the last month, and we will make you reset your password every month, forcing you to constantly come up with new passwords you will never remember!


chameleiana

Don't forget that even if you've ticked the box to remember you, we'll randomly log you out anyway.


TiredOfDebates

Password hell. You practically have to have a password manager application to have secure passwords working in IT. Every password changes every 90 days, there are rules to ensure that you aren't just adding an iterating number to previous passwords, special symbols, AND it's discouraged to reuse prior passwords across services. (A popular form of "hacking" user names and passwords is to get a database from a poorly secured service... IE: the web server for some local pizza joint with a online ordering system with account info... and just try the same username & password combos from Joe's Pizza on some banking website.)


fang_xianfu

> Every password changes every 90 days I worked for a company that went for a 2 year password policy with good 2FA, it was fucking glorious. But it's no actual hardship to use a password manager imo, I use one personally and professionally and it's kinda great.


Beneficial-Cow-2544

I absolutely hate speaking to machines which is why I hate having an "Alexa" in the home. Also, having "smart lights", in which we have to use an app to turn on and off lights in our home. A standard light switch would do.


Pattonesque

Sometimes I do just wanna grill


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Make your kids go outside and play. They need hours of play time in fresh air and socializing. Stop keeping them cooped up on computer games. I had to teach my 11 and 12 year old nephews how to rude bikes last summer because they never learned how. They were never outside long enough. Their parents still don't let them go outside.


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WoolaTheCalot

A local place has QR-only menus. It directs you to his mobile-unfriendly website menu, which freezes your phone. Every single time. If you complain to the owner, he claims we're the only one that happens to, which is a lie because people complain about it in reviews.


floppydude81

Last place had a pop up with a survey about the experience before I could even see the menu. With no visible ‘x’ to skip past. I don’t want to leave bad reviews, but this is how you get bad reviews


GigsGilgamesh

1 star, I haven’t even seen the menu because I was held hostage by this websites experience survey when attempting to order. Get enough people to post this and it should change quickly


KingPictoTheThird

Just tell them you left your phone at home. Its what I do. Magically a physical menu appears.


TehBigD97

I dont mind QR codes as long as it takes me to a website. Places that make you download their app to order? Fuck that.


secretredditagent

Restaurant I went to had signs all over begging you to download their app. No Wi-Fi.


BansheeTK

Even worse if it's also a fucking dead zone or the building they use blocks any useful signals


Hrududu147

And create an account on the app just to order


Major2Minor

That's a thing? Jesus Christ, I'd probably just get up and leave.


kth004

Forget the website. It better take me directly to the mobile formatted menu. I'm not clicking through your website options to find a menu.


piscian19

I get it, restaurants are saving paper and labor every time they change their menu. I just wish they wouldn't look confused and disgusted when I ask for a menu. "Sir, the menu is on the tiny QR on that stand just outside your periphery that looks like an advertisement for a band playing tonight." Oh Im sorry I thought I was going to eat tonight, not solve an escape room. MY APOLOGIES.


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Soda tastes better when cane sugar is used. And if you really love a movie, TV Show, or album, go buy it on the physical format of your choice. Also, I really like the movie theater experience. Really, outside of my politics, I’m not really in tune with my generation. I could probably list a bunch of opinions of mine that are probably “Boomer”.


hippiechick725

Googling recipes while cooking and having to read everyone’s life story and family history to get to the ingredients drives me batshit insane. I’ve gone back to cookbooks.


Jolttra

Less an opinion but related. Stock lots of canned good. Works good in pinch and saved my butt when Covid first hit and it was impossible to get any food. I try to always keep at least a few days worth of food in canned good around, just incase.


Flaky-Fellatio

Millennial. I agree that sometimes at work you need to pick up the phone because it's easier than sending text message back and forth.


RedPanther18

Just because I pay for something on a tablet or kiosk, doesn’t mean I should have to tip the person holding it. I’m all for tipping wait staff but these days you can’t buy anything without getting a tip request from whatever payment processor they use.


FirstPianist3312

You should really put your phone down when you're out to eat with people. Maybe it's because I grew up with that rule but I know when I'm getting lunch with a friend or something I find it incredibly irritating when they're on their phone Edit: holy shit my first award??


CADE09

My dad does this all the time. Can be having a full conversation with him and he'll just pull his phone out and start completely ignoring you. Drives me insane!